Jeffery M. Freitas was elected president of the California Federation of Teachers in March 2019 after serving as CFT secretary treasurer for eight years. He is the first LGBTQ member to become president of the CFT. Freitas has advocated on behalf of members for over two decades. Before moving into statewide CFT leadership, he served as president of the Carpinteria Association of United School ...

Our Mission The AFT is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our communities. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our ...

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The AFT launched a major national campaign to shine a spotlight on and address the country’s dire healthcare staffing crisis.

AFT retired members are front and center in our union’s national and state legislative campaigns to honor their service with a secure, healthy and productive retirement. AFT members who retire are ensured a lifelong membership in the national union as soon as their local union updates their status from “working” to “retired, active” in its membership reports to the AFT.

American Federation of Teachers public web site.AFT higher education workers crowded the halls of Morehouse College in Atlanta July 17-20 for the annual American Association of University Professors/AFT Summer Institute, a four-day intensive of workshops and plenaries that addressed the monumental challenges higher education is facing, and shared training and strategy to …

Dec 17, 2024 · WASHINGTON—Today, twenty-two senior women leaders of the labor movement and close to 500 additional signatories wrote to President Joe Biden to urge him to take immediate action to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the Constitution.

Many teachers, principals, and district leaders, along with students and their families, understand that schools must change in fundamental ways, yet the inertia of existing systems is powerful. The good news is that models exist: a number of schools that have been extraordinarily effective and have helped other schools to replicate their success …

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The 2024 Freedom to Learn AFT Higher Education Professional Issues Conference brings together AFT Higher Ed union activists from across the country. The conference is designed to provide practical skills for building your union, bargaining your contact, defending the freedom to learn and free speech, confronting state legislative threats, fighting for job security for contingent faculty, and more.