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Today the Senate passed the Social Security Fairness Act, restoring earned Social Security benefits for millions of educators, firefighters, police officers and retired public employees. www.aft.org/press-releas...

AFT’s Weingarten on the Passage of the Social Security Fairness Act

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the Social Security Fairness Act passed the Senate, capping a decades-long fight for retirement justice for educators, nu...

This is what democracy looks like….

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Breaking news! The court just issued us a TRO in our lawsuit against Elon Musk's DOGE, so that they stop taking the private data of American citizens from the Department of Ed and OPM. More to come.

Seventeen years without raising the federal minimum wage is unacceptable. Working people deserve a real living wage, protection from wage theft, and job security that puts families before corporate profits. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Federal Employment Standards as the Foundation of Economic Security: Revisiting Minimum Wage, Just Cause, and Tools to Combat Wage Theft

Patrick Oakford proposes raising the minimum wage to 2/3 of median earnings ($20 per hour by 2030), implementing just-cause protections, and expanding wage theft enforcement to restore economic securi...

Did you know? Fifteen years later, the ACA's Medicaid expansion has been linked to improved health outcomes and reduced mortality rates in many states. It's a powerful tool for public health. #ACASavesLives

Chicago this Labor Day… Thousands fighting for what #WorkersDeserve

I made the USA Today Best-Selling Booklist! Thank you to everyone- who bought the book, read the book and all the positive feedback!
Yes, it’s a warning but it is also a testament to the incredible work teachers do.

Breaking news! Welcome SEIU. Welcome back to the AFL-CIO. This is great news for our movement and for everyone who wants to form a union to make the goal of a better life and a better America a reality.

SEIU_ORG @seiu.org

2M SEIU Members 🤝 13M AFL-CIO Members SEIU just joined America’s biggest federation of labor unions, the @aflcio.org. Together, we’re taking on corporate union busters and changing the rules so every worker who wants a union can have one. Let’s do this!

The White House needs to understand: Teachers are their union. It's how we collectively have a voice. When you attack unions, you attack teachers. When you leave us out of the conversation, you ignore teachers voice.

They want us to be silent. But we won’t be.
Because we know there’s no cavalry coming.
We are the cavalry.
And we’ll fight in the courts, in the streets and in our communities—because our kids, our jobs and our futures are worth fighting for.
#HandsOff

I’m already hearing the #NoKings rallies across the country have surpassed expectations. The largest protest in American history. Incredible!

Every worker deserves a safe a secure retirement. Just this week we saw Tesla stock continue to sink faster than a Cybertruck in quicksand. So we're asking asset managers to honestly look at their investments in Tesla.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...

A Union Takes on Musk via Tesla’s Stock

The American Federation of Teachers is pressuring some of the carmaker’s biggest shareholders as the tech mogul's cost-cutting influence in Washington sets off alarm bells.

Responding to today’s assaults on public education and on educators and vulnerable kids… we protect our children

We are going backwards..

The world's richest person is targeting me & other teachers because we are fighting for vital federal education programs that help families & students. They attack because they want tax cuts for the rich. Stop taking money from poor kids & kids with disabilities.

We won!! A nationwide preliminary injunction against McMahon's February Dear Colleague letter which tried to stop public schools & higher Ed from teaching honest history or enforcing student civil rights. It’s a win for students, families & educators. democracyforward.org/updates/harm...

Harmful Attacks on Educational Programs Paused by Court in Case Brought By Educators - Democracy Forward

Yes.. this was my starting point: we- labor activists, educators and I would argue, the Dem Party need to walk the walk of the working class. prospect.org/labor/2024-1...

Why Workers Deserted a Neoliberal Democratic Party

Herewith, a union leader’s suggestions on why they left and how to win them back.

For 17 years, Washington has failed to raise the federal minimum wage while the cost of housing, groceries, childcare and healthcare has soared. Today, $7.25 an hour is officially a poverty wage. No full-time workers should be left in poverty. fortune.com/2026/07/20/m...

The minimum wage is now the lowest it’s been in 70 years—making the federal wage floor ‘officially a poverty wage,’ report finds | Fortune

“We are currently in the longest period of inaction on the federal minimum wage since its inception in 1938,” economist Sylvia Allegretto wrote in a recent report.

It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.

Glad to see the Target Boycott is trending. We’re urging our members, & our communities to shop local, not Target for Back to School. Target has not supported Minnesota,the place they got their start, so we are shopping elsewhere
www.aft.org/resolution/a... @shanembailey.com @aaronblack.bsky.social

This is what the fight against autocracy looks like!! Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban

Today—and every day—this president is focused on himself. Meanwhile, unions are consistently showing up to fight for economic opportunity for all families to have a better life. #HandsOff our Social Security, our public education, our healthcare, and our democracy. 🇺🇸

Years of research and science have proven that vaccines are safe and effective at preventing disease. Undercutting that research and sowing doubt puts our communities at risk of preventable disease. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/h...

Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’

Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.