Press Releases

11/09/23

On Tuesday, Voters Rejected Moms for Liberty and Its Agenda of Cruelty and Hate

11/07/23

AFT President Randi Weingarten on Election Results

11/03/23

AFT Officers Echo Calls for Humanitarian Pause

10/30/23

AFT’s Weingarten on President Biden’s Pathbreaking Executive Order on AI

10/29/23

Advocates Representing over 4 Million Educators and 1,000 Higher Education Institutions Fight Back Against Attacks on Freedoms

10/26/23

AFT President Randi Weingarten on Election of MAGA Extremist Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House

10/26/23

AFT President Randi Weingarten Sickened Over Mass Shooting in Maine, Reiterates Urgent Call for Reform, Ban on Civilian Use of Weapons of War

10/26/23

New ‘Army of Temps’ Report Shows Nation’s Adjunct Faculty Remain Underpaid, Underappreciated

10/20/23

American Federation of Teachers Announces Additional $1 Million in Nationwide Funding to Go Directly to Educators, Parents and Other Groups Helping Students, Families

10/19/23

Union Leaders Condemn Attack on ASU Professor

10/12/23

Nation’s Teachers and Parents Overwhelmingly Embrace Education Technology in Classrooms but Want Guardrails in Place

10/11/23

AFT Partners with NewsGuard and GPTZero to Support Educators Navigating AI and to Make It Safe, Useful for Students

10/10/23

AFT Exposes House GOP’s Failed Plot to Scapegoat Educators and Their Unions for Political Gain

10/09/23

U.S. Education Leaders Condemn Hamas Attack, Stand with Israeli People

10/04/23

Illinois State University Faculty Unionize

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