Press Releases

06/26/24

AFT President Randi Weingarten Blasts Republican Attempts to Gut Federal Spending for Public Education and Ignore the Needs of the Healthcare Workforce

06/25/24

AFT-Oklahoma and AFT on Oklahoma Supreme Court Decision Blocking Publicly Funded Religious Charter School

06/21/24

Judge Rules AFT Union Members in Florida Can Challenge Senate Bill 266

06/18/24

AFT Leaders Applaud Biden Administration for Keeping Families Together

06/18/24

AFT Launches New Union Physicians’ Organizing Effort

06/18/24

AFT Announces New Guardrails for Artificial Intelligence in Nation’s Classrooms

06/11/24

US Education Leaders Support the UN Security Council Resolution Endorsing Plan to End Israel-Hamas War in Gaza

06/10/24

More than 27,500 Fairfax County (Va.) Education Workers Overwhelmingly Win Historic Union Elections

05/30/24

AFT’s Weingarten on Donald Trump’s Criminal Conviction on All Charges

05/28/24

AFT-NH and AFT Celebrate Victory in U.S. District Court Decision Rejecting New Hampshire’s ‘Divisive Concepts’ Law

05/24/24

Newark Teachers Union, Board of Education Reach Transformational Contract Agreement

05/23/24

AFT’s Share My Lesson Recognized by the Software & Information Industry Association as Best Collaborative Solution for Teachers

05/21/24

NAACP National Board of Directors Swears in AFT’s Weingarten as New Member

05/17/24

AFT’s Weingarten on Reintroduction of Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act

05/17/24

AFT Celebrates 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education

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