American Federation of Teachers

ASHEVILLE, N.C.—AFT President Randi Weingarten joined American Federation of Professional Educators of North Carolina President Joanna Loftis and Read to Succeed Asheville/Buncombe co-Executive Director Jessica McLean to distribute more than 30,000 free books and reading resources to kids who attend Title I schools, families and educators during a family literacy fair today.

Inside a wave of organizing in New Jersey Inside building 14 at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center—a wing dedicated to mental health and substance use—Nathan Hultstrom spends his shifts ensuring that he and his fellow peer recovery specialists are keeping their patients safe and cared for. At Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, peer recovery specialists joined HPAE Local 5091’s non-nursing professional bargaining unit after a recognition agreement.

Officials must act now to make safety as important as innovation. A poll released last week found that most people around the globe are increasingly pessimistic about the state of the world—and that was before the recent flurry of warnings that artificial intelligence is on a path to destroy humanity.

WASHINGTON— Nine organizations representing immigrants, communities of color, and workers — the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Mi Familia en Accion, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates, the National Urban League, Minnesota 8 (MN8), the Service Employees International Union, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the International Union of Painters (IUPAT), and the United Food and Commercial Workers International (UFCW)— filed a federal lawsuit today...

WASHINGTON—Today, AFT President Randi Weingarten sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who chairs the Financial Stability Oversight Council, urging an immediate investigation into serious financial risks from the artificial intelligence sector’s rapid debt-laden expansion. The letter from the head of the 1.875 million-member union calls for swift action to address the existential threat these dangers carry for AFT members’ retirement security and the U.S. economy as a whole.

WASHINGTON—Today, in a direct response to Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s “A National Call to Action to University Presidents and Governing Boards” (often known as “Compact 2.0”), American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued a letter demanding that the Trump administration immediately cease weaponizing taxpayer funds and civil rights enforcement to politically coerce colleges and universities to adopt their authoritarian...

WASHINGTON—Leaders from industry, labor, education and philanthropy today launched the Compact for America's Youth, a challenge to public and private sector leaders to open real paths from school into careers for young people. The AFT, CareerWise and Jobs for the Future  issued the call to action at a forum Sept.10 in Washington, D.C., where organizations announced their first commitments.

NEW YORK—After months of intense negotiations and in the absence of any meaningful federal and state rules governing artificial intelligence in schools, AFT President Randi Weingarten, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, and Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith today announced a “National AI Safety & Privacy Standard” establishing legally enforceable protections to ensure the safety of students, families and educators.

When it comes to trade, President Donald Trump is correct that decades of US policy have caused severe damage to many Americans and their communities.

WASHINGTON—Today, the AFT moved to join an ongoing lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Transportation, seeking to stop the agency from seizing the personal records of 17 million commercial driver’s license (CDL) holders from the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, the nonprofit that maintains the national database of driver records. The AFT is represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group and Murphy Anderson PLLC.