“Women must speak up. Even though sometimes we are in the minority, we know that our voices often lead others through turbulent times. A great leader knows her strengths and uses them to make positive change. I am a voice for women.”
“We have to really start looking at education and we have to go deeper. We have to focus on teacher practices to make learning more student-based and get them beyond the surface of learning.”
“My superheroes are my BASAS family, my union family, within Food and Nutrition Services. Real heroes to me are the staff who come to work every day, who show up in the blink of an eye."
Since the creation of labor unions in the 1860s, people who work for a living have used their collective voice to make change: fighting for higher pay, reducing wage inequality, promoting better and safer working conditions, pushing for health care and retirement benefits, advocating for public education and civic participation.
It hasn’t always been easy, but the battles have transformed America.
The White House is focusing on spreading the word about the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program limited waiver for educators, school personnel, administrators, professors and other employees at all education levels.
For Liz Shuler, the last year has been a whirlwind.
Since she unexpectedly succeeded the late Richard Trumka a year ago, and especially since the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia, new federation President Shuler has raced around the country, addressing 10 union conventions and a new special Smart-TD Union leadership conference in San Francisco just in the last 2-1/2 weeks alone.
She’s held picket-line discussions with workers forced to strike. In Minnesota, youthful organizers loaded her with suggestions on new organizing methods, targets and priorities.
Grants will expand capacity of local educators to implement community- and school-based strategies to help prevent community violence and mitigate the impacts of exposure to community violence.
Ensuring equitable and affordable health care for all Americans is one step closer and you can help make it happen. It’s time to take action to get the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 passed in the House of Representatives, which has scheduled a vote for Friday, Aug. 12, just two days from now.
Call your representative at (202) 224-3121 and tell them to vote yes for H.R. 5376.
Our nation's young people are facing an unprecedented mental health crisis. AFSA convention delegates in July passed a resolution stating that the American Federation of School Administrators reaffirms its support for the integration of social-emotional learning (SEL) concepts into and use of SEL programs in conjunction with pre-K–12 education. AFSA had long advocated for Congress and the administration to invest in these programs.
