Press Releases

09/20/2019
Graduate Workers Slam Trump Rule to Strip Them of Right to Unionize
09/10/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Census Poverty Data
09/09/2019
America’s Teachers and Students Call for Action on Gun Safety in Full-Page Ad
09/09/2019
Latest Reconnecting McDowell Accomplishment: Groundbreaking on Apartments to House W.Va. County’s Teachers
09/05/2019
AFT’s Weingarten Reacts to Damning GAO Report on Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness
08/30/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten Slams DeVos Borrower Defense Rule
08/29/2019
AFT President Weingarten Joins AFT Nurses and Leaders to Condemn Trump’s Policy to Deport Children and Families Seeking Medical Treatment
08/29/2019
Union Leaders Respond after Kean University President Quits
08/22/2019
AFT’s Weingarten on Economic Policy Institute’s School Supplies Report
08/21/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on the Trump Administration’s Cruel New Flores Rule
08/18/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten’s Statement on Resignation of Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico President Aida Díaz
08/15/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Israel’s Denial of Visas to U.S. Members of Congress
08/09/2019
AFT Leaders Condemn Immigration Raids at Mississippi Food Processing Plants
08/08/2019
Kean University Should Quit Costly Legal Attacks and Fix Failing Department
08/05/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on 2019 PDK Poll Measuring the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools
08/04/2019
American Federation of Teachers Joins Ohio and Texas Leaders in Mourning Latest Mass Shootings
07/31/2019
Statement from AFT President Randi Weingarten on Fordham School Discipline Report
07/25/2019
World’s Teachers Condemn Donald Trump over Racist Attacks on U.S. Congresswomen
07/25/2019
Weingarten Welcomes Puerto Rico Governor’s Resignation, Calls for a New Era of Reform
07/23/2019
Weingarten: Puerto Rico Gov. Rossello’s Tenure of Corruption and Failure Centers on His Mismanagement of Public Schools
07/17/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten Urges Repeal of 40 Percent Excise Tax in Affordable Care Act
07/15/2019
American Federation of Teachers Given Nearly $175,000 to Help New Educators Stock Classrooms with Books
07/15/2019
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello Must Go: Weingarten
07/12/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten Calls on Educators to Defend American Democracy
07/12/2019
American Federation of Teachers Updates Landmark Education Funding Report

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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.

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