WASHINGTON— Nine organizations representing immigrants, communities of color, and workers — the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Mi Familia en Accion,

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WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement exposing an error-riddled document from a far-right activist group released today:“The so-called Freedom Foundation has spent d...

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital still faces threats of a walkout by support staffers as it tries to balance a $14.5 million budget deficit.

BALTIMORE – Today marks a final defeat in the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to require school districts throughout the nation to censor lessons, abandon student support programs, and certify th...

Americans want us to treat each other with dignity, not inhumanity.

We will cut off ICE’s corporate enablers — starting on our campuses. ICE isn’t invincible. Donald Trump’s deportation machine doesn’t run on willpower—it runs on contracts. ICE depends on private cor...

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This week, we witnessed unconscionable acts of violence by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minnesota—including the murder of Renee Nicole Good, the handcuffing of school staff, th...

Our paraprofessional legislation has overwhelming support in the New York City Council, but we need it brought to committee and then put forward for a vote. City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has the...

Trump has repeatedly targeted Democrats over gender-reassignment surgeries—without explaining what he means—in blaming them for a possible government shutdown.

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"This is what happens...When Marxists don't get their way," Senator Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, said on X.

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s ruinous reconciliation bill.“A better name for this bill is the big, u...

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s ruinous reconciliation bill.“A better name for this bill is the big, u...

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On Monday, I examined in some detail the scare campaign that the opposition ABC slate, following the lead of the entrepreneur Marianne Pizzitola, had waged around our UFT pensions, and its failure to ...

Emergency Triad: Are we now a country of political prisoners and gulags?

by Randi Weingarten and Damon Silvers

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...

Neither ABC or ARISE have offered any ideas on how to improve para pay, just platitudes...but can’t bring themselves to endorse the only plan that exists – because it has been put forward by Unity

Recently, I wrote about my political history in the UFT on the Unity Substack. As a new teacher who had political differences with Al Shanker, I ran on the New Action slate in my first UFT election. B...

NEW YORK– The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the AFT today sued the Trump administration on behalf of their members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding...

🧓1 in 3 older Americans relies on Social Security for at least 90% of their income. 🧓Without Social Security, 22M more adults & children would fall below the poverty line. Sign the petition and tel...