The question we receive most frequently from public employees is, “Will I lose my benefits if I leave my union?” To answer this question, I’m bringing in my colleague Brigette Herbst. Before joining the AFFT team as New York State Director, she served the kind people of New York as a public-school teacher,

This is an AFFT exclusive investigation into how a New York union siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars of union members’ money away from a health benefit fund. Benefit funds are way for an employer, in this case New York City, to hand off the administration of some employee benefits.

Weingarten spoke about the union’s plans to influence national civics education.

If you thought the American Federation of Teachers would spend their national conference this year discussing ways to help teachers help their students recover lost ground academically after a year when many students learned by staring at a screen instead of sitting in a classroom, you would be wrong. Instead,

India Walton, a self-described socialist and union activist, defeated Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown in the Democratic primary this week, setting her up to most likely become mayor of New York’s second largest city. Walton, 38, is a former public school nurse and representative of SEIU 1199. She campaigned with the

The NEA is using “anti-union delay tactics” against its employees.