Press Releases
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11/15/2021
AFT Announces Third Round of Innovation Fund’s Return, Recover and Reimagine (RRR) Grants
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11/09/2021
AFT’s Weingarten: Kaiser Has Betrayed Its Workers, and This ‘Strikesgiving,’ Its Greed Must Be Exposed
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11/06/2021
AFT’s Weingarten Heralds Passage of Pathbreaking Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
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11/04/2021
AFT Lauds New Biden Administration Vaccination Policies
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11/03/2021
AFT’s Randi Weingarten Condemns Senate Republicans’ War Against Voting Rights
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10/28/2021
AFT President Randi Weingarten Applauds Deal on Build Back Better, Including Landmark Investments in Care Economy and Traditional Infrastructure
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10/27/2021
AFT President Randi Weingarten and AFT Pennsylvania President Arthur Steinberg Stand with Scranton Educators and School Staff
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10/26/2021
AFT President Weingarten Welcomes News of FDA Approval of Pfizer Vaccine for Children
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10/26/2021
Union leaders applaud introduction of landmark legislation to make it easier for public service workers to join unions
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10/22/2021
Study: Democrats Can Win by Emphasizing Working Class Issues
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10/21/2021
AFT President Weingarten Welcomes Biden Plan for Child Vaccination Rollout
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10/20/2021
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Senate Republicans’ Blow to Voting Rights
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10/18/2021
AFT President Randi Weingarten Celebrates Life and Legacy of Colin Powell
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10/16/2021
American Federation of Teachers Committee on Political Education Launches Six-Figure Ad Buy Supporting Terry McAuliffe for Virginia Governor
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10/13/2021
US Department of Education Settles with AFT in Public Service Loan Forgiveness Suit
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10/07/2021
AFT Relaunches Share My Lesson Platform with New Redesign
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10/06/2021
AFT President Randi Weingarten Reiterates Calls for Action after Texas School Shooting
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10/06/2021
America’s Educators, Nurses and Public Employees Stand with IATSE
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10/06/2021
AFT President Randi Weingarten on the Department of Education’s Public Service Loan Forgiveness Overhaul
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09/30/2021
AFT’s Weingarten Writes to House of Representatives Urging Passage of Infrastructure, Build Back Better Acts
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09/27/2021
AFT Leaders Troubled by Haitian Refugee Crisis, Urge Humanitarian Action
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09/24/2021
POLL: 90% of AFT members are vaccinated and Two Thirds support Vaccine Mandates
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09/22/2021
AFT Announces $100,000 Investment in Faculty Effort to Help College Students in Need
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09/20/2021
AFT Leaders Respond to Senate Parliamentarian Ruling on Immigration
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09/09/2021
AFT President Randi Weingarten Welcomes Biden’s Six-Part COVID-19 Action Plan
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Press Credentials at AFT Convention
Convention speeches will be open to the press. All press wishing to attend and cover the convention must RSVP to AFTPress@aft.org and request credentials, which can be picked up in the convention press office. Requests for interviews with non-AFT speakers should be directed to those speakers' press offices. The convention will also be live streamed on AFT’s social media channels.

Randi's Corner
News and resources from the office of the president
from AFT President Randi Weingarten