Press Releases

04/21/2022
Higher Education Leaders React to Revised Colorado Collective Bargaining Bill
04/20/2022
AFT Responds to Department of Education on Charter School Regulations
04/20/2022
AFT Cheers Department of Education’s Reforms to Public Service Loan Forgiveness
04/11/2022
AFT President Randi Weingarten Welcomes Latest White House Move on Gun Safety
04/07/2022
AFT’s Weingarten Congratulates Ketanji Brown Jackson on Historic Confirmation to US Supreme Court
04/05/2022
Labor Unions issue joint statement in support of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the Supreme Court
04/03/2022
AFT’s Weingarten Visits Poland-Ukraine Border to Meet with Teachers, Children Displaced by Putin’s War
03/28/2022
AFT Condemns Signing of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill in Florida
03/28/2022
AFT President Weingarten Reacts to President Biden’s Budget
03/11/2022
Educators Nationwide Express Gratitude on Anniversary of Historic American Rescue Plan
03/10/2022
Major Union Pension Trustees to Consider Divestment from Russian Assets
03/09/2022
AFT President Welcomes Historic Omnibus Appropriations Agreement
03/07/2022
AFT and AAUP Pursue Historic Affiliation
03/04/2022
AFT Fulfills $400,000 in DonorsChoose Requests for School Supplies from Teachers Nationwide
03/02/2022
AFT’s Weingarten and AFT New Mexico’s Holland React to Signing of ‘Education Moonshot’ Bills
03/02/2022
AFT’s Weingarten Praises School Focus in Latest National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan
03/01/2022
AFT’s Weingarten on President Biden’s State of the Union Address
02/25/2022
AFT’s Weingarten on Change to CDC Mask Guidance
02/25/2022
AFT President Randi Weingarten Calls Biden Pick for Supreme Court Historic, Urges Swift Confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson
02/24/2022
AFT President Randi Weingarten Condemns Russian Invasion of Ukraine
02/24/2022
AFT Report Shows Pandemic Wreaked Havoc on Nation’s Already Tenuous Adjunct Faculty
02/14/2022
AFT President Randi Weingarten Announces Six-Figure Investment in Newark Public Schools Teacher Education Academy
02/09/2022
AFT President Weingarten Issues Statement Backing New SEC Rules on Private Equity
02/02/2022
AFT and UFT Partner with Entertainers 4 Education Alliance for Black History Month
01/27/2022
AFT President Randi Weingarten Calls Cardona Priorities ‘Brilliant and Inspiring’

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