*News Update* Former AFSCME Local 124 union boss Byron Clemons Sr. was sentenced to 18 months in prison and two years of supervised release after pleading guilty to one count of Interstate Transportation of Stolen Money. He was also ordered to pay $202,100 in restitution. A former union president in
On April 1, the Florida Education Association (FEA), the Sunshine State’s NEA chapter, held a rally in Miami, Florida where union leadership communicated partisan and political rhetoric. Both Randi Weingarten of American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and Becky Pringle of the National Education Association (NEA) were in attendance. The rallying
News broke recently that the mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Ed Gainey, has unusually close ties with the Services Employees International Union (SEIU). The questions about Gainey’s union ties came after an email thread exposed some members of his staff’s close communications with SEIU regarding talking points about the area’s nonprofit
While you may not pay attention to the news of unionization as closely as we do here at AFFT, you may have seen a recent uptick in unionization amongst medical interns at both public and private hospitals across the country. A medical intern impacted by these efforts reached out AFFT
Last week, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) presented various webinars during their annual “Share My Lesson” virtual conference, supposedly to discuss lesson plans and curriculum ideas. Instead, attendees learned about topics like “misinformation,” “self-care,” or in this case, the progressive education model called “restorative justice.” Restorative justice is when
Several rank-and-file members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) officially filed an unfair labor practice charge against the union for allegedly funneling membership dues to the union’s political action committee (PAC) without their approval. The money was used to support CTU-endorsed mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson. The CTU’s Members First Caucus
Labor unions in Wisconsin appeared to have exerted their political power when their endorsed candidate, Janet Protasiewicz, defeated her opponent for an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court race became the most-expensive state court election in U.S. history, with total spending at around $45 million,
Brigette Herbst, organizing director at Americans for Fair Treatment, wrote an opinion editorial in The Center Square about teachers not getting all the information they need to determine whether to collectively bargain in Loudoun County, Virginia. You can read the full opinion editorial here.
