AFT Convention 2024
Member Highlights
AFT Members Thank Joe Biden and Support Kamala Harris
Guest Speakers
Resolutions Passed
- Artificial Intelligence
- Project 2025
- Championing Healthy School Meals for All: A Real Solution for Hungry Students
- Ensuring Optimal Room Temperatures for All Students and Educators in Public Schools
- Real Solutions for Higher Education
- In Support of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity in Response to the June 2023 Supreme Court Ban on the use of Affirmative Action in College Admissions
- AFT Policy Toward Dual Credit
- For An End To The War In Gaza And Lasting Peace, Security And Self-Determination For Israel And Palestine
- Hope And Resilience In Haiti
- Ukraine: Teachers’ And Students’ Social And Emotional Well-Being
- Protecting Seniors
- PSRP Bill Of Rights
- In Support of Our Profession, Our Public Schools, Our Students
- More Teaching, Less Testing: End Over-Testing in Schools
- Support For Newcomers, Asylum Seekers And Refugees
- Guidelines For Educating Students And School Staff About Indigenous People's Culture And History
- Committing To The End Of A ‘Lifetime On Alert’ For Physical And Psychological Violence Against LGBTQIA+ Youth And Adults
- Recommitting Ourselves To The Code Red Campaign: Saving Healthcare From Corporatization For Our Patients, Our Communities And Ourselves
- Save Suny Downstate Hospital
- Workers’ Rights And Ethical Use Of Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare
- Responding To Healthcare Workers Moral Injury, Mental Health And Well-Being Needs
- Nurses, Physicians And Other Healthcare Professionals Demand Safer And Healthier Workplaces
- Defending The Rights Of Internationally Educated Health Professionals
- Paid Family Leave
- Fighting The Harmful Impacts Of Private Equity On Our Economy, Public Pension Funds And Healthcare System
- Double Down On The Fight Against School Vouchers And Tax Credit Schemes That Defund American Public Education
- Reaffirming The AFT's Commitment To Organizing
- Denouncing Attacks On NLRB And Workers’ Rights By Companies
- In Support Of Organizing Locals For Strike And Action Readiness
- Supporting The UAW's Call To Align Contract Expirations For May 1
- Reduce United States Maternal Mortality Rates
- It’s Beyond Time To Publish The 28th Amendment
- What Is At Stake In The 2024 Elections: A Democratic Republic Committed To Liberty And Justice For All
- Resolution Thanking President Biden For His Leadership And Lifetime Of Fighting For Working Families
- Support Decarbonization Of Our Public Schools, Colleges, Universities, Hospitals And City Buildings Through Inflation Reduction Act Funds
- Opposing the Overreach of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Endorsement of Kamala Harris for President
- Support CalSTRS and CalPERS Using Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Criteria in Making Investment Decisions
- Recognition For Bea Lumpkin
- In Support of Screenings/Training on Elder Abuse
- Addressing the Harms Exacerbated by State-Level Tax Cuts
- Affirming the First Responder Status of Open Water Lifeguards
- Addressing Staff Shortages in the Government Workforce
Press Releases from Convention
- AFT’s Weingarten on Vice President Kamala Harris’ speech to union members
- New AFT Pension Report Calls Out Private Equity Firms’ Labor Practices
- AFT Delegates Vote to Endorse Kamala Harris for President
- Embattled Student Loan Servicing Giant MOHELA Hit with Groundbreaking Consumer Protection Lawsuit for Failing 8 Million Student Borrowers
- In Address to Union, AFT’s Weingarten Champions Real Solutions for a Better Life, Celebrates Historic 1.8 Million-Member Milestone
- AFT Executive Council Unanimously Endorses Kamala Harris for President
- AFT’s Weingarten on President Biden’s Departure from the Presidential Race