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Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚
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AFT Prez.. Fighting 4 kids, families & communities to have a better life-from public schools to healthcare to a union. On Bluesky @rweingarten
May 4, 2023 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Thank you @SenMarkey and @SenBillCassidy for being leaders in the battle to make the internet safe for children and youth.
markey.senate.gov/news/press-rel… Congressional action is important. AFT has also been pressing @Meta to put kids before profits including asking union’s pension trustees, who oversee our members approximately 30 million shares of Meta, to demand accountability & transparency of @Meta.
aft.org/press-release/…
May 3, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Today, @AFTunion , @GoHedgeClippers & @popdemoc released a new report, showing that @GovRonDeSantis sold out Florida homeowners to the highest bidder to prop up his presidential campaign. Read the report: hedgeclippers.org/how-ron-desant… #DeSantisSoldOut 1/5 Under @GovRonDeSantis:
🚨Floridians pay 3x national avg. for insurance
🚨Insurance costs will rise 40% this year, on top of the 50% increase since DeSantis took office
🚨DeSantis approved rate increases of 79%
🚨Insurance companies received $2B from taxpayers
#DeSantisSoldOut 2/5
May 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
PolitiFact | Here's what AFT’s Randi Weingarten said about reopening schools during COVID-19 politifact.com/article/2023/m… Their conclusions:

•“During the early COVID-19 pandemic, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten advocated for schools to reopen for in-person learning, provided they use safety precautions…
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Nov 22, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
You know what’s dangerous, Sec. Pompeo? Weapons of war that kill Americans on our streets, classrooms, grocery stores ,houses of worship & nite clubs. That's why teachers fight for gun safety laws that will outlaw weapons of war like AR-15's.  My thread 🧵americanprogress.org/article/guns-a… What's dangerous is hate speech & rhetoric like this — calling what teachers’ teach “filthy” and comparing them to a cruel dictator who has engaged in genocide. That's why teachers press for & create safe & welcoming school environments 4 all our students nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n…
Nov 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I know that Mike Pompeo is running for president, and frankly I don’t know whether to characterize his characterization of me in the @daveweigel interview as ridiculous or dangerous. At the state department, Pompeo defended Middle East’s tyrants & undermined Ukraine. He was more focused on pleasing Trump than fighting 4 freedom, national security & democracy. To compare us to China means he must not know what his own department says state.gov/reports/2021-c…
Nov 20, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
At #ituc22 I thought it important to honor the traditional custodians of the land, elders past present and emerging as well as those murdered and injured in yet another mass shooting, this time at an LGBTQ club In Colorado on Trans Remembrance Day Image At #ituc22 in speaking about the new social contract, I recalled the first ever lesson taught was Locke’s theory of a social contract- how government needs the consent of the people to protect basic rights and the common good.
Nov 20, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In a year when kitchen table issues, democracy and our freedoms were on the ballot, Americans turned the tide from a red wave to a swell of support for progress and problem-solvers. My monthly column here: aft.org/column/voting-… Leading up to the midterms, I had my doubts. I spent the weeks before the elections talking to voters and traveling on the AFT Votes bus, rolling through a dozen states with more than 50 stops. aft.org/column/voting-…
Nov 20, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Yet another tragic mass shooting with a weapon of war waged this time, like at Pulse against the LGBTQ+ community. Hate + guns = death. #EndGunViolence nytimes.com/live/2022/11/2… Please God, help the victims, and condolences and prayers for those who died . Gratitude to those who subdued the killer and to the emergency responders..
Nov 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Amazing meeting with youth leader Ivanna Khrapko of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (FPU) who has organized millions in humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. #ituc22 Image Kyiv has only 2-3 hours of electricity a day, and Kherson has none. FPU is mobilizing to raise money for generators, medicine and clean water.
Oct 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
I had a great day in Montana today! Thanks to @MTnurses & @MontanaFed for having me. I started the day at the #MNA2022 Collective Bargaining Assembly where I had a chance to speak with nurses who, like many other union workers, are fighting for respect and dignity at their job. ImageImageImage As I told @MTnurses: Every single person in this state, at one point or another, needs a nurse. And nurses want what patients need. But that requires respect, dignity, and economic power, which can only be accomplished through collective bargaining. #RetainMe #MNA2022
Oct 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Academic freedom, shared governance, years of disinvestment, and precarious are all issues we work on daily at @AFTunion. Glad I could join @UNESCO for this important panel on higher ed.  40 years ago, 70% of college professors were tenured. Today, 75% are contingent and/or otherwise ineligible for tenure. This precarity and insecurity of employment contributes to the problems we’re seeing in higher ed today. aft.org/press-release/…
Oct 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
.@AFTunion teamed up with @ptogetheraction to press @instagram to confront and stop the harm to children that parents and teachers are dealing with around anonymous accounts that are used to bully and harass students. 🧵 #WhatKidsNeed mashable.com/article/instag… This problem is very serious, and I’ve talked to educators who see the impact of anonymous accounts used solely for bullying and harassment of other students. Bullying seriously impacts the students themselves and it also affects their peers and the class.
Sep 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Dr. Ashish Jha put it best: By working together, we can protect our kids and communities against the spread of COVID and keep our schools open so everyone can thrive. Glad we could join the @WHCOVIDResponse & @NEAToday for this webinar. Our @AFTUnion members are focused like lasers on #WhatKidsNeed this year. That means a sense of normalcy and safety, so they can get their mojo back.
Sep 1, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
This morning we had a very special visit at the Wheatley Education Campus here in DC! It’s a great example of how to accelerate learning this year. First I got to read to students and talk with staff about #whatkidsneed & what they need.   We talked with Principal Plenty, @WTUteacher building reps, and students about the successful implementation of Looping last year. Looping is when an educator has the same class from one year to the next.  
Sep 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
After joining @FLOTUS, @AmbRice46, @SecCardona, and @SecMartyWalsh at the White House today to discuss the country's teacher shortage, I spoke with @CNN about the solutions we discussed. 🧵 As I said on @CNN, we have to do something about the compensation. We have to do something about the conditions. We have to do something about making sure that teachers have the tools, trust, and respect.
Aug 31, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I had a fantastic day in Houston with @UnionmanTX, @TexasAFT and so many education leaders from around the state. Thank you Zeph for organizing this fantastic discussion about the teacher and schools staff shortage crisis. ImageImage We started the day with a roundtable with district leaders, union leaders and experts to talk about tangible solutions to the shortages.
Apr 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Whether it’s book bans, “divisive concepts” bills that chill teaching of history, anti-LGBTQ+ laws, or masking fights, the goal by ideologues (as opposed to parents) is the same: sow distrust to destroy public Ed. Thank you @AymanMSNBC 4 the convo: Rufo himself said "To get to universal school choice,you really need to operate from a premise of universal public school distrust. To sow & grow that distrust, you have to create your own narrative frame,& have to be brutal & ruthless in pursuing it." 
Apr 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Excluding higher ed workers from the CO collective bargaining bill is a missed opportunity to help the tens of thousands of CO faculty & staff struggling for a living wage, respect & rights at work, after years of repression and exploitation.  aft.org/press-release/… @ColoradoAFT Opponents shamefully searched for every excuse in the book to avoid giving these workers a voice. College administrators earning 6 figures distorted facts about their schools’ financial standing, when the truth is they are sitting on billions in reserves.  aft.org/press-release/…
Nov 3, 2021 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Losing in Virginia is rough. But it is important to understand why we lost and to look at what happened on the issue of education in other parts of America. And frankly, as results come in, we are seeing big wins for pro-public education candidates in places where parents and educators worked together.
Nov 2, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Wait…Did I misread this or did Tom Cotton just say any teacher who is not also a parent shouldn’t be able to teach? Really? Is he now disqualifying every nun from teaching? Or is this simply a new divisive & hateful homophobic slur against LGBTQ teachers? I guess Sen Cotton hasn’t done his homework and doesn’t know I have step-children, grandkids & nieces and nephews. They would certainly be surprised by his comments. As would the many students I taught ( and loved) at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn.
Oct 31, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
There's so much that's in #BuildBackBetter that will help so many Americans. That's why groups like @ewg are praising the historic climate-focused conservation efforts  ewg.org/news-insights/… And @Earthjustice supports it because it's largest investment in climate and environmental justice in U.S. history. earthjustice.org/news/press/202…