Unions and the community are 'a natural coalition'
Solution-driven unionism may have been the overarching theme of the 2013 joint conference of the AFT Healthcare and AFT Public Employees divisions, but the importance of community engagement was the biggest takeaway message for the 450 AFT members and guests who gathered in Baltimore, April 25-27. Read more.
Apply now for the Prize for Solution-Driven Unionism
The AFT, in partnership with the Albert Shanker Institute and the AFT Innovation Fund, is accepting applications for the second annual $25,000 Prize for Solution-Driven Unionism, which honors the most innovative, inspiring examples of collaborative work by our state and local affiliates.
AFT honored for efforts on behalf of nurses
The AFT has been named "Nurse Champion of the Month" for March by the Center to Champion Nursing in America.
A hand up is not a handout
In her latest column appearing in the New York Times, AFT President Randi Weingarten urges lawmakers to strengthen the rungs on America's ladder of opportunity.
A war on poverty, or on the poor?
In her latest column appearing in the New York Times, AFT President Randi Weingarten writes about what poverty in America looks like today, a half-century after President Lyndon B. Johnson, in conjunction with civil rights, religious and labor leaders, commenced the war on poverty.
Healthcare takeover bid approved, despite nurse concerns
Nurses represented by the AFT traveled to the Health Management Associates shareholders meeting in Naples, Fla., to challenge the HMA board to answer questions about the effect a proposed merger with Community Health Systems would have on patient care.