AFT
Record national strike wave swells as 300,000 hit the picket lines
October 5, 2023UAW strike impact spreads as biggest health care walkout in nation’s history gets underway.
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Weingarten refutes GOP charges of teacher union control of pandemic policy
May 4, 2023Republicans use their control of the House to crank out one major piece of rightwing propaganda after another, all with an eye toward the 2024 election.
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Scranton School System forces teachers to strike
November 3, 2021After years with no contract, teachers are told they must big increases in their share of the cost of health coverage.
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Teachers union leaders backing mandatory anti-virus vaccinations
August 10, 2021AFT and NEA leaders say that 90 percent of their members are already vaccinated.
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AFT’s Weingarten talks back-to-school plans and threats to democracy
July 7, 2021Returning teachers this fall, she says, face ideological threats to their teaching and to democracy in general.
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