Press Releases

09/26/19

AFT’s Weingarten on Sen. Lamar Alexander’s Inadequate Higher Education Package

09/24/19

AFT President Randi Weingarten on Formal Impeachment Inquiry

09/20/19

Graduate Workers Slam Trump Rule to Strip Them of Right to Unionize

09/10/19

AFT President Randi Weingarten on Census Poverty Data

09/09/19

America’s Teachers and Students Call for Action on Gun Safety in Full-Page Ad

09/09/19

Latest Reconnecting McDowell Accomplishment: Groundbreaking on Apartments to House W.Va. County’s Teachers

09/05/19

AFT’s Weingarten Reacts to Damning GAO Report on Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness

08/30/19

AFT President Randi Weingarten Slams DeVos Borrower Defense Rule

08/29/19

AFT President Weingarten Joins AFT Nurses and Leaders to Condemn Trump’s Policy to Deport Children and Families Seeking Medical Treatment

08/29/19

Union Leaders Respond after Kean University President Quits

08/22/19

AFT’s Weingarten on Economic Policy Institute’s School Supplies Report

08/21/19

AFT President Randi Weingarten on the Trump Administration’s Cruel New Flores Rule

08/18/19

AFT President Randi Weingarten’s Statement on Resignation of Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico President Aida Díaz

08/15/19

AFT President Randi Weingarten on Israel’s Denial of Visas to U.S. Members of Congress

08/09/19

AFT Leaders Condemn Immigration Raids at Mississippi Food Processing Plants

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.