Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸

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...

This is what democracy looks like….

▶

The energy is incredible here in Philly. We’re marching and rallying for Medicaid, for food assistance, for our students, for our schools, for our democracy and so much more. #NoKings

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

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.

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.

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.

We are going backwards..

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

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.

New research shows nearly half of U.S. households didn't earn enough to cover the costs of basic necessities. Rising prices and stagnant wages are making life unaffordable for working families. That's why it's a top priority for our union.
www.npr.org/2026/05/28/n...

This is how close American households are to the financial edge

A new report shows that nearly half of U.S. households did not earn enough to cover their necessities in 2024.

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

I suspect no one who voted for Trump thought he would let Musk invade their privacy. Right now, inside the Dept of Ed, the world’s richest man is rifling through 45M people’s private student loan accounts and feeding the data into AI. www.aft.org/press-releas...

apnews.com/article/trum...

Labor unions sue to block DOGE access to sensitive information at US agencies

A coalition of labor unions filed a lawsuit Monday asking a federal court to stop Elon Musk’s team from accessing private data at the Education Department, the Treasury Department and the Office of Pe...

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.

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

Hospital shootings are rising, threatening patients and staff. Three people died in hospital shootings this week in Milwaukee, WI and Homewood, AL. Hospitals must work with frontline healthcare staff on effective programs to prevent workplace violence. cbs58.com/news/its-far...

‘It's far too common’: Push for hospital safety continues after deadly emergency room shooting at Aurora Sinai

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A 40-year-old man is dead after he was shot in the Aurora Sinai emergency room early Monday morning.Christopher Robinson died Monday afternoon.A 38-year-old victim was also shot

Less than one year ago, thousands of TSA employees signed a seven-year union contract. On Friday the Trump announced that “it is ending collective bargaining for the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA)” They just tore up the contract. It’s appalling
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/strike-or-...

Strike, or Else

As Trump tosses out the TSA union contract, everything is on the line.

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!

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

The deeply unpopular GOP approach to defund the Department of Education and push block grants and vouchers means taking resources away from communities who need support the most—including Title I schools. youtu.be/yRV-tIEaqA0

AFT President Explains Why Voters Are Rejecting School Voucher Programs

YouTube video by AFTHQ

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.

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