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AFT Announces $100,000 Investment in Faculty Effort to Help College Students in Need

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Member town hall showcases ‘Back to School for All’ campaign

As students and staff head back to school, AFT activists gathered Monday evening, Aug. 23, for a telephone town hall with AFT President Randi Weingarten. Teachers have done everything society has asked of them to contend with the pandemic, she said, but be ...

Nurses work in coalition to save their maternity unit

Last summer, executives at Windham Hospital in Willimantic, Conn., announced that it would seek approval from the state to end labor and delivery services at the facility, citing that the request for closure was the result of years of declining births and ...

Weingarten: ‘The right to vote is sacred for all of us’

AFT leaders and members turned out for voting rights rallies in four cities over the weekend as the Fighting for Our Vote coalition kicked off a long-term campaign against voter suppression and for passage of sweeping federal voting rights legislation. “Th ...

Back to School for All tour emphasizes safe return to classrooms

As she crisscrosses the country on the Back to School for All tour, AFT President Randi Weingarten has carried the message that students need to be in schools this fall and that we must continue to advocate for health and safety mitigation measures. Along ...

Vaccinate to stem the tide of COVID-19

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Leading Teachers Union Passes Resolution on Workplace Vaccine Policies

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AFT President Randi Weingarten Mourns the Sudden Passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

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AFT President Randi Weingarten Responds to Updated CDC Guidance

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Teaching literacy as a path to justice

How can educators point literacy toward the goal of racial equity? They must consider their roles in “creating a literacy that is inclusive and just,” explained Anne Harper Charity Hudley, an education professor at Stanford University, in a workshop on Jul ...