Press Releases
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07/11/2010
IT Instructor Who Launched Food Pantry To Help Those in Need Is Recognized as AFT Everyday Hero
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07/11/2010
Classroom Veteran Who Helps Students Overcome Profound Disabilities Is Recognized as AFT Everyday Hero
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07/11/2010
Randi Weingarten Re-elected AFT President
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07/10/2010
AFT Innovation Fund Announces New Investments
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07/10/2010
Bill Gates Addresses AFT
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07/10/2010
AFT Advances Its Leadership Role in Teacher Evaluations, Also Calls for Greater Transparency and Teacher Voice in Charter Schools
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07/10/2010
AFT Announces Yearlong Campaign To Save Public Education
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07/09/2010
What’s Happening Saturday at the AFT 2010 Convention
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07/09/2010
AFT Celebrates Organizing Successes as Union Reaches 1.5 Million-Member Milestone
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07/08/2010
President Weingarten's Speech to the Convention in Seattle
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07/08/2010
What’s Happening Friday at the AFT 2010 Convention
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07/07/2010
What's Happening Thursday at the AFT 2010 Convention
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07/02/2010
Statement by Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers, On President Obama’s Call for Immigration Reform
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07/01/2010
Details on AFT Convention in Seattle, July 7-11
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07/01/2010
Weingarten Comments on U.S. House Passage of $10 Billion Education Jobs Bill
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06/25/2010
On Jobs Bill To Avert State Budget Cuts and Layoffs
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06/24/2010
American Federation of Teachers To Meet in Seattle in July
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06/24/2010
AFT Statement On New Book, Team Up for 21st Century Teaching and Learning
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06/17/2010
Statement by Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers, On the Supreme Court Ruling in New Process Steel v. NLRB
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06/09/2010
AFT Applauds Joyce Elliott’s Congressional Primary Victory
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06/08/2010
AFT President Stresses Universal Education as Key to Ending Child Labor
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06/07/2010
AFT mourns death of union leader John Delloro
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06/03/2010
Weingarten calls common core standards essential building blocks for a better education system.
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06/02/2010
AFT Statement on ratification of new DC teachers contract
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06/01/2010
Weingarten Highlights Good and Bad in State Applications for Phase Two of Race to the Top.
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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