10+ hour, 26+ min ago  (456+ words) As the Trump administration continues to attack higher education'cutting research grants, targeting free speech and restricting classroom materials'the AFT and the American Association of University Professors have unveiled a powerful new blueprint to restore and preserve higher education, just in…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (679+ words) On the first day of the conference, U. S. Rep. Debbie Dingell from Michigan joined health professionals in an early morning meeting, where she talked about moral injury, mental health stigma, and the human cost of a system that places the burden…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (549+ words) EDITORS: What can you tell us about the history of SUNY Downstate and the long fight to save it? WAYNE SPENCE: SUNY Downstate has a really special history. In addition to training clinicians, it has been a center of medical…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (776+ words) AFT - American Federation of Teachers Bargaining for Pay Equity HR told me that it was the health system's practice to give nurses with experience in countries other than the United States or Canada'which means primarily people of color from Asia,…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1445+ words) President Donald Trump has declared war on higher education. His administration has cut or withheld billions in federal grant funding, 1 arrested student activists, 2 targeted diversity initiatives, 3 and sought to undermine academic freedom and university independence by tying funding and preferential…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago  (732+ words) AFT - American Federation of Teachers Fired Up and Ready to Fight This most recent fight to save Downstate has been part of a much longer struggle for my colleagues and me to be treated fairly'and I know struggle. I'm from…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (403+ words) AFT President Randi Weingarten joined Sen. Bernie Sanders and a slate of labor leaders on Capitol Hill last week to deliver a blunt warning about unregulated artificial intelligence: If the Trump administration continues to let tech companies make decisions alone,…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (463+ words) Across the country, healthcare workers are confronting an unsettling reality: escalating immigration enforcement without regard for the law or'as highlighted by the recent murder of Veterans Affairs nurse Alex Pretti'for the safety of healthcare professionals who are trying to fulfill…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (925+ words) Just a week after Hungary's landmark election, democracy advocates, scholars and labor leaders came together for the third webinar in the AFT's and the Albert Shanker Institute's "Defending Democracy" series to examine how Hungarian voters were able to end Prime…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (620+ words) Across this country, families are struggling to pay the bills, put food on the table and keep up with rising tuition and stagnant wages, while fearing that a college education now means a lifetime of debt. At the same time,…...