Tag: American Federation of Teachers
St. Louis Public Schools employees receive raise sooner than planned
The Board of Education of the City of St. Louis voted unanimously Dec. 14 to approve a recommendation from the administration to accelerate its...
Fire Fighters, Teachers unions helping victims of Hurricane Ida
Working people across the United States are stepping up to help friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times.
After Hurricane Ida made landfall on...
AFT OKs working with schools on vaccination policies
AFT, NEA urge educators, families to get vaccinated as students head back to school
Washington (PAI) – Citing an 84 percent rise in coronavirus-infected children...
Weingarten: Post-pandemic schools should retool education
Washington (PAI) — The coronavirus pandemic-forced school closures, and upcoming reopening of all public schools this fall is a massive opportunity to reimagine and...
AFT’s Weingarten: Tell the Senate to pass the HEROES Act
By RANDI WEINGARTEN
President
American Federation of Teachers
All over the country, parents are wondering if schools will open this fall and agonizing over whether it is...
Nurses, abandoned by Federal Government; forced to buy their own masks,...
Washington — The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) — which represents nearly 200,000 nurses, respiratory specialists, health techs, physicians and other professionals in the...
OPINION: Republicans’ Supreme Court challenge against the Affordable Care Act
By RANDI WEINGARTEN
President, American Federation of Teachers
Washington —The fact that yet another challenge to the ACA has been brought by President Trump and Republican...
Supreme Court dumps fate of Affordable Care Act into height of...
By MARK GRUENBERG
PAI Staff Writer
Washington (PAI) — The U.S. Supreme Court has dumped the fate of the Affordable Care Act right into the height...