Randi Weingarten

This hard-fought first contract guarantees pathways to promotions, secures significant and overdue wage increases, and provides protections to ensure faculty can always be represented by a union.

It shows, once again, that by joining together we can achieve a far better life for educators, students and communities than we ever could alone. That is what a fair contract is all about.

This election will decide whether we are a country governed by the people or ruled by the powerful.

We are grateful that Sen. Ed Markey has made their lives a priority with the PUPIL Act, which will study the working conditions of school support staff and finally give us the real data we need to improve conditions for millions of workers…

Paraprofessionals and support staff are the backbone of our public schools, and it is unconscionable that they lack the resources they need to do their jobs.

And parents, educators, students, and the disability and civil rights communities are rising up — and will fight in every way possible to reverse this in the courts, at the ballot box and in the court of public opinion.

Congress — the only body that can legally take such actions — has refused to follow the whims of the White House when it comes to abolishing the Education Department.

The decision will have dire, real-world consequences.

This bill is a giveaway to the AI industry and a handful of trillion-dollar companies, at the expense of American workers.

School should be an ICE-free zone, just like it’s a gun-free zone and a drug-free zone.

The AFT takes on antisemitism and all forms of hatred.