Press Releases
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06/20/2019
New Hedge Clippers-AFT Report Exposes Hedge Fund Investments in Calif. Utility Company PG&E
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06/19/2019
Statement of AFT President Randi Weingarten and AFT-West Virginia President Fred Albert on the Defeat of Key Provisions in W.Va. Omnibus Education Bill
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06/19/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on the results of the 2018 Teaching and Learning International Survey
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06/19/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten Responds to House Passage of the Fiscal Year 2020 Labor-HHS-Education Funding Bill
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06/11/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on the House Committee on Education and Labor Voting in Favor of H.R. 1309, the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
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06/11/2019
American Federation of Teachers Concludes Hearing on Contested Baltimore Teachers Union Election
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06/05/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on the Trump Administration’s Cancellation of Critical Resources for Minors in Migrant Shelters
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06/04/2019
AFT-West Virginia Hits the Airwaves to Protect Kids, Teachers and Public Schools
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05/28/2019
AFT’s Weingarten on the Biden Plan for Educators, Students and Our Future
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05/24/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Baltimore Teachers Union Election
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05/17/2019
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten Welcomes Bernie Sanders’ Charter Schools Proposal
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05/15/2019
Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter School Educators Vote to Unionize
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05/15/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Jackie Goldberg’s L.A. School Board Victory
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05/11/2019
AFT's Randi Weingarten and California Federation of Teachers’ Jeff Freitas on California State Disability Insurance Program
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05/11/2019
AFT's Randi Weingarten on Warwick (RI) Public Schools Policy for Students with Lunch Debts
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05/10/2019
AFT's Randi Weingarten on the NURSE Act
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05/10/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on the Comprehensive Addiction Resources Emergency (CARE) Act
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05/08/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten Responds to the House Appropriations Committee’s Full Markup of the FY2020 Labor, HHS, Education Funding Bill
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05/08/2019
AFT's Weingarten on Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act
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05/06/2019
AFT’s Weingarten Responds to Betsy DeVos on Teacher Salaries
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04/29/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten Welcomes Democrats’ Appropriations Proposal
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04/25/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on ‘Death on the Job’ Report on Workplace Injuries and Fatalities
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04/23/2019
AFT’s Weingarten on Criminal Beheading of Western Michigan University Student by Saudi Arabia
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04/23/2019
D.C. Charter School Teachers Say ‘Union Yes’
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04/22/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Sen. Warren’s Student Debt and College Affordability Proposals
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