Press Releases

10/13/2020
New Report Exposes More Than Five Million Student Loan Servicing Errors Hindering Public Service Loan Forgiveness
10/12/2020
AFT’s Weingarten Rejects Inadequate White House Stimulus Push
10/10/2020
Statements by AFT President Randi Weingarten, President Emeritus Edward McElroy and Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus Lorretta Johnson on the Death of Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus Nat LaCour
10/09/2020
Public Service Workers Obtain Final Approval of Significant Settlement with Loan Servicer Navient
10/09/2020
Florida Educators to Appeal Court Ruling, Continue to Fight for Local Control and School Safety
10/07/2020
AFT Leaders Announce Innovation Fund COVID-19 Response Grants for the 2020-21 School Year
10/06/2020
AFT's Weingarten on Trump's Abandonment of Stimulus Talks
10/02/2020
AFT President Randi Weingarten on House COVID-19 Relief Package
09/30/2020
AFT Launches Nationwide Get-Out-the-Vote Bus Tour to Stop Trump, Elect Biden and Harris
09/29/2020
AFT’s Weingarten Reacts to First Presidential Debate
09/28/2020
AFT’s Weingarten Lauds Updated House HEROES relief bill
09/25/2020
AFT President Randi Weingarten Reacts to Nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court Weeks Before Election Day
09/25/2020
AFT President Randi Weingarten Says President Trump’s One-Time Prescription Drug Stunt Isn’t Real Help for Older Americans
09/18/2020
Statement of AFT President Randi Weingarten on the Life and Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
09/15/2020
New Poll Shows America’s Parents, Teachers Want ‘Safety First’ on School Reopenings
09/01/2020
American Federation of Teachers Re-elects President Randi Weingarten, Elects Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram and Executive Vice President Evelyn DeJesus, Slate of New Vice Presidents
08/26/2020
AFT Ad Set to Air during Republican Convention Banned by Fox News
08/25/2020
AFT President Randi Weingarten on 2020 PDK Poll Measuring Attitudes Toward Public Schools
08/24/2020
AFT President Weingarten on the Shooting of Jacob Blake
08/24/2020
Florida educators win temporary injunction against executive order
08/14/2020
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten Decries Trump Attack on US Postal Service
08/14/2020
Cypress-Fairbanks AFT Seeks Injunction to Halt Requirement For School Employees to Return to School Buildings
08/13/2020
Educators React to Latest Proceedings in Florida Case on School Reopening
08/12/2020
AFT’s Weingarten Rejects Trump's Schools Reopening Guidelines as Too Little, Too Late
08/12/2020
AFT and SBPC Uncover New Evidence of Mismanagement and Abuse in Scandal-Plagued Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

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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.

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