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National Education Union: Reading for Pleasure Report Shows the Importance of Developing a Love of Reading
LONDON, England, July 18 -- The National Education Union issued the following statement by July 17, 2026, General Secretary Daniel Kebede:
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Reading for Pleasure report shows the importance of developing a love of reading
Commenting on the Education Committee report Reading for Pleasure, published today, Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said:
"This report highlights the crucial work teachers and schools do to develop a love of reading from early years upwards
"It rightly identifies that competing curriculum demands are a major factor in the long-term decline
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LONDON, England, July 18 -- The National Education Union issued the following statement by July 17, 2026, General Secretary Daniel Kebede:
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Reading for Pleasure report shows the importance of developing a love of reading
Commenting on the Education Committee report Reading for Pleasure, published today, Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said:
"This report highlights the crucial work teachers and schools do to develop a love of reading from early years upwards
"It rightly identifies that competing curriculum demands are a major factor in the long-term declinein reading for pleasure among children, alongside rising poverty and lack of access to libraries.
"Increased school funding is needed so that the true potential of school libraries can be unleashed. These vital resources need up-to-date, diverse, high-quality books and professionally trained staff, rather than relying on overstretched teachers or volunteers.
"The current focus on reading proficiency over pleasure, combined with an overloaded curriculum and heavy focus on assessment, crowds out opportunities to show children the joy of reading.
"To rebalance this focus, SATs must be ended and the proposed Year 8 reading test - which will worsen the issues the report highlights - must be stopped in its tracks. Only then will we see a system that focusses on engagement, identity and enjoyment - as the report calls for.
"However, without urgent action on school funding, pay and teacher workload these recommendations will have a limited impact and we will miss a golden opportunity to support a generation to develop a life-long love of reading."
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Original text here: https://neu.org.uk/latest/press-releases/reading-pleasure-report-shows-importance-developing-love-reading?_locale=en
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NEU Snap Poll Confirms Teachers are Ready to Take Action on Pay and Funding
LONDON, England, July 18 -- The National Education Union issued the following news release:
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NEU snap poll confirms teachers are ready to take action on pay and funding
In an online snap poll, conducted this week, teacher members of the National Education Union who work in maintained schools in England were asked their views of the government's plan to only partially fund the pay offer of 3.5 per cent for 2026/27 and 3 per cent for 2027/28.
NEU pressure to date has resulted in the government shifting ground, from an unfunded to partially funded pay offer, and to an offer of 6.5 per cent
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LONDON, England, July 18 -- The National Education Union issued the following news release:
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NEU snap poll confirms teachers are ready to take action on pay and funding
In an online snap poll, conducted this week, teacher members of the National Education Union who work in maintained schools in England were asked their views of the government's plan to only partially fund the pay offer of 3.5 per cent for 2026/27 and 3 per cent for 2027/28.
NEU pressure to date has resulted in the government shifting ground, from an unfunded to partially funded pay offer, and to an offer of 6.5 per centover two years rather than three. However, the government expects schools to find 'efficiencies' in their budgets to cover the remaining 1.1 per cent of the pay offer for 2026/27, which amounts to pound sterling460 million. Heads were informed of this on 1 July, leaving little time to plan budgets.
A snap poll of NEU members, conducted this week, found strong support for action on pay and funding.
* 97 per cent believe it is unacceptable that their school will have to find the money to make up the shortfall in government funding for the pay rise.
* The vast majority of those polled (89 per cent) said they would be prepared to take strike action to ensure any pay award is fully funded.
* Three quarters (76 per cent) said they would be prepared to take strike action to win an improved pay offer this year.
The survey was conducted between 11-17 July.
Informed by the findings of this poll, the National Education Union's executive has this week reaffirmed plans to proceed to a formal ballot of members in the autumn term on pay and funding.
The question on the formal ballot paper is to be confirmed, but the executive agreed it should be over a substantial increase in school funding and significant steps towards pay restoration. As previously announced, the ballot will launch on 3 October and close on 15 December.
Commenting on the findings of this snap poll, Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said:
"We are at a crunch point. For well over a decade, schools have been asked to do more with less.
"The NEU has argued for and won more pay and funding, but it is not enough. Nothing short of a fully funded pay award and substantial progress towards pay restoration is needed, and our members agree.
"We want to fix chronic underfunding in our schools. It means bigger class sizes and crumbling buildings. It means teachers driven out of the profession. It impacts children's learning and parents can see that. The government's ambitions for SEND children cannot be met in the present circumstances.
"The incoming Prime Minister must look with fresh eyes at the state in which successive governments have left the education system. There is still time to plug the gap with the pound sterling460m that is missing, but we need to see a substantial increase in school funding more broadly as well as significant steps towards pay restoration.
"It is very clear that teachers will not put up with yet another government ducking their responsibilities. It is time to save education and we will."
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Original text here: https://neu.org.uk/latest/press-releases/neu-snap-poll-confirms-teachers-are-ready-take-action-pay-and-funding?_locale=en
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AFT Launches Financial Empowerment Partnership with Tiffany 'The Budgetnista' Aliche as Part of Fight for Affordability Campaign
WASHINGTON, July 18 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers issued the following news release:
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AFT Launches Financial Empowerment Partnership with Tiffany 'The Budgetnista' Aliche as Part of Fight for Affordability Campaign
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WASHINGTON -The AFT today announced a partnership with financial educator Tiffany "The Budgetnista" Aliche, the New York Times bestselling author and one of the most trusted voices in personal finance, as part of the union's Fight for Affordability campaign. Aliche, a former preschool teacher, will headline a new series of member-facing financial
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WASHINGTON, July 18 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers issued the following news release:
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AFT Launches Financial Empowerment Partnership with Tiffany 'The Budgetnista' Aliche as Part of Fight for Affordability Campaign
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WASHINGTON -The AFT today announced a partnership with financial educator Tiffany "The Budgetnista" Aliche, the New York Times bestselling author and one of the most trusted voices in personal finance, as part of the union's Fight for Affordability campaign. Aliche, a former preschool teacher, will headline a new series of member-facing financialeducation videos and lend her expertise to a financial empowerment toolkit being distributed to AFT members nationwide. The AFT announced this partnership at its 89th biennial convention in Washington, D.C.
The partnership comes as the AFT's own data shows a membership under crushing financial pressure. In a survey of more than 7,500 AFT members conducted with Protect Borrowers, nearly three-quarters of respondents reported living month to month, and 40 percent said they cannot afford all of their monthly bills. Fifty-nine percent named costs rising faster than wages as the single biggest obstacle to their financial security. More than half said their financial situation had worsened over the past year.
These are teachers, nurses, higher education faculty and public employees who are using credit cards to buy groceries, using "buy now, pay later" products to pay rent, and standing in food pantry lines while working full time.
"Our members are up against an economy that has been rigged against them-hospitals that sue their own patients, credit bureaus that destroy workers' finances with a typo, and payday lenders that make a windfall when borrowers fall behind," said AFT President Randi Weingarten. "Tiffany Aliche started out as a preschool teacher, and she knows that working people are struggling because of the cost of living, not the cost of a latte. She tells them the truth, and she gives them a plan. That's exactly the partner we want in this fight."
"I started teaching financial education because I watched my own community get exploited by predatory systems that were built to take advantage of them," said Aliche. "Educators, nurses and public service workers show up every day for everyone else. They deserve more than shame and a budgeting app. They deserve real information, real tools, and a union with the power to go after the companies profiting off their stress. I'm proud to be part of this."
Through the partnership, the AFT will release a series of short videos with Aliche covering the financial products and systems members are struggling with most-credit reporting, medical debt, credit cards, debt collection, "buy now, pay later" and payday products, and scams. The videos will be paired with a financial empowerment toolkit, member clinics run by trained local leaders, and train-the-trainer programming so that locals can run this work in their own communities.
The AFT's Fight for Affordability campaign, launched in partnership with Protect Borrowers, applies the model the AFT built over more than a decade of student debt work-clinics, toolkits, direct member assistance and legal advocacy efforts that have helped members access billions of dollars in loan forgiveness-to the full range of financial products squeezing working families.
Members will be able to find the toolkit, clinic schedule and full video series at aft.org/affordability. New materials are released monthly.
Tiffany "The Budgetnista" Aliche is an award-winning financial educator and the author of the New York Times bestseller Get Good with Money. A former preschool teacher, she has taught more than 1 million women worldwide through her Live Richer Challenge and was instrumental in the passage of New Jersey's law requiring financial education in middle schools.
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Original text here: https://www.aft.org/press-release/aft-launches-financial-empowerment-partnership-tiffany-budgetnista-aliche-part-fight
National Education Union: National Pupil Projections Provide Opportunity to Reduce Class Sizes
LONDON, England, July 17 -- The National Education Union issued the following statement by General Secretary Daniel Kebede:
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National pupil projections provide opportunity to reduce class sizes
Commenting on the Government's new projections for the change in pupil numbers, Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said:
"Falling pupil numbers provide a precious opportunity for the government to evolve towards smaller, more inclusive classes, meaningfully improving education for children and school staff alike.
"We are emerging from a period with the highest pupil
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LONDON, England, July 17 -- The National Education Union issued the following statement by General Secretary Daniel Kebede:
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National pupil projections provide opportunity to reduce class sizes
Commenting on the Government's new projections for the change in pupil numbers, Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said:
"Falling pupil numbers provide a precious opportunity for the government to evolve towards smaller, more inclusive classes, meaningfully improving education for children and school staff alike.
"We are emerging from a period with the highest pupilnumbers for over 40 years, with class sizes the highest in Europe and over a million children crammed into classes of over 30.
"When pupil numbers last fell in the early 2000s, the Labour government responded by increasing school staffing levels and reducing class sizes, a model for their 2026 successors to follow.
"Unfortunately, early signs are that the current Government risks squandering this opportunity. Overall teacher numbers are down by 1,900 in the last year alone, making a mockery of the Government's promise of 6,500 extra teachers. If they continue down this path, they will lock in high class sizes and the harm caused by a decade and a half of neglect, overcrowding and underfunding. This has left school staff burnt out and schools running on empty.
"There is no room for complacency. The Government must properly fund schools and implement the fully-funded, above-inflation pay rises and improvements in workload that are urgently needed to tackle teacher shortages and protect our education service."
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Original text here: https://neu.org.uk/latest/press-releases/national-pupil-projections-provide-opportunity-reduce-class-sizes?_locale=en
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Audio Engineers at Three Denver Music Venues Vote to Join IATSE Local 7
NEW YORK, July 17 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees posted the following news release:
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Audio Engineers at Three Denver Music Venues Vote to Join IATSE Local 7
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Denver, CO -Over a dozen Audio Engineers at three of Denver's most prominent independent music venues have voted overwhelmingly to join the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 7. Workers at The Oriental Theater, The Federal Theatre, and HQ Denver each cast their ballots separately, delivering decisive majorities across all three venues.
The results
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NEW YORK, July 17 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees posted the following news release:
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Audio Engineers at Three Denver Music Venues Vote to Join IATSE Local 7
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Denver, CO -Over a dozen Audio Engineers at three of Denver's most prominent independent music venues have voted overwhelmingly to join the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 7. Workers at The Oriental Theater, The Federal Theatre, and HQ Denver each cast their ballots separately, delivering decisive majorities across all three venues.
The resultswere as follows:
The Federal Theatre: 11 Yes, 2 No
The Oriental Theater: 5 Yes, 1 No
HQ Denver: 5 Yes, 1 No
(Some workers were eligible to vote in more than one election)
The three venues share common ownership and together represent a significant presence in Denver's independent rock and roll market, operating outside the Live Nation and AEG ecosystem that dominates much of the city's entertainment landscape. The Federal Theatre, which had sat vacant for several years, reopened last year as a music venue, making this organizing victory part of its new chapter.
Workers first reached out to a Local 7 organizer about unionizing the venues following staffing changes at the properties. A majority of authorization cards were collected in early May 2026, and the successful votes followed on June 30th.
"The live music industry has long left its crews behind. Unstable conditions, little to no benefits, and wages that fall well short of what a skilled workforce deserves," said Local 7 President Bryant Preston. "We look forward to sitting down with the employer and getting to work on the issues these workers face every day on the job."
Live event workers looking to join together to win better workplaces can head to iatse.net/join to contact an IATSE organizer.
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Original text here: https://iatse.net/audio-engineers-at-three-denver-music-venues-vote-to-join-iatse-local-7/
AFT Posts Highest-Ever Membership of 1.88 Million as Union Popularity Surges
WASHINGTON, July 17 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers issued the following news release:
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AFT Posts Highest-Ever Membership of 1.88 Million as Union Popularity Surges
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WASHINGTON -The AFT has topped the highest membership in its 110-year history as workers across America flock to organize with the 1.88 million-strong union that cares, fights, shows up and "gets shit done."
At the union's 89th biennial convention this week, AFT President Randi Weingarten announced a record membership number of 1,875,209, with nearly 60,000 members in 179 new units organized
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WASHINGTON, July 17 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers issued the following news release:
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AFT Posts Highest-Ever Membership of 1.88 Million as Union Popularity Surges
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WASHINGTON -The AFT has topped the highest membership in its 110-year history as workers across America flock to organize with the 1.88 million-strong union that cares, fights, shows up and "gets shit done."
At the union's 89th biennial convention this week, AFT President Randi Weingarten announced a record membership number of 1,875,209, with nearly 60,000 members in 179 new units organizedover the last two years.
Since Weingarten was first elected in 2008, the union has grown by 340,000, with close to half a million members added during the last two decades. After the June 2018 Supreme Court decision in Janus -a case funded by far-right front groups-eliminated 94,000 fee-paying AFT members with the stroke of a pen, the union quickly recovered that shortfall and piled on an additional 65,000 members for a net gain of 159,000 over eight years.
The AFT, with 3,786 locals, is now the fastest-growing union in the 65-member AFL-CIO, with major new affiliates in states including Hawaii, Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania and new organizing across healthcare, higher education, early childhood education and K-12 sectors from coast to coast.
"Life is better in a union," said Weingarten. "The AFT is a big, bad, big-hearted union made up of people who've dedicated their lives to caring for others. They see the value of belonging to the AFT because they want to win a voice at work and in our democracy."
The extraordinary growth comes against the backdrop of relentless political attacks from extremist lobby groups funded by dark money billionaires and pumped out verbatim by a dishonest conservative media ecosystem. But this PR strategy has backfired spectacularly: The level of vitriol directed at Weingarten and the AFT has only raised the public profile of the union and its leaders, buttressing new organizing efforts and stiffening the spines of existing members.
Coordinated disinformation campaigns by far-right special interest groups, including the Freedom Foundation, to coerce existing members to opt out of dues-paying union membership and "free ride" on their union's collective bargaining agreement, have also proven unsuccessful, with nominal yearly losses swamped by a deluge of new internal and external organizing.
Meanwhile, union approval is surging with the American public to levels not seen since the 1960s, with a level of bipartisan support uncommon among the country's core institutions. Fifty million nonunion workers say they'd join a union tomorrow if they could.
Union workers' wages are 11 percent higher than nonunion workers-and nonunion workers in unionized states earn more by virtue of the union's presence. Unionized teachers earn 24 percent more in states with collective bargaining, and education support professionals earn 13 percent more.
The Economic Policy Institute found this week that tripling union membership would deliver a 14.5 percent raise for the average worker, reverse one-third of the increase in inequality experienced since 1979, significantly narrow racial wage gaps, boost the number of people with health insurance, strengthen communities and protect democracy.
AFT affiliates have consistently secured pathbreaking contracts with premium-free healthcare for their members and families, paid parental leave, safe staffing ratios in healthcare facilities and guaranteed retirement security through robust pensions.
"The AFT is going from strength to strength-and the attacks from our billionaire enemies only make us stronger," added Weingarten. "For 18 years, I've been proud to lead a union that fights for a better life, not only for its members, but for all Americans. And we're just getting started."
New organizing since 2024:
1. Legacy Clinics Advanced Practice Providers (Oregon)
2. California College of the Arts Faculty (California)
3. Providence Health and Services Social Workers, RNs and Chaplains (Oregon)
4. University of Michigan Medical Center Behavioral Health Workers (Michigan)
5. Legacy Downtown Clinics APPs (Oregon)
6. Graduate Labor Organization Postdocs, Brown University (Rhode Island)
7. Office of Information Technology Employees, Rutgers University (New Jersey)
8. Kaleidoscope Youth Center (Ohio)
9. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin (Wisconsin)
10. United Methodist Communities RNs (New Jersey)
11. Legacy Clinics Physicians, Women's Health Services Division clinics (Oregon)
12. Prince George's Community College (Maryland)
13. Monticello Behavior Interventionists (Minnesota)
14. Bennington College Faculty Unit (Vermont)
15. Bennington College Staff Unit (Vermont)
16. OHSU Hospital Nurse Practitioners (Oregon)
17. Providence Portland Medical Center Diagnostic Imaging Nurses (Oregon)
18. Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital Nurses (Oregon)
19. Lebanon PSRPs (Illinois)
20. UIC Research Assistants (Illinois)
21. UIS Contingent Faculty (Illinois)
22. Kankakee Bus Drivers (Illinois)
23. CTU Resident Teachers (Illinois)
24. Warren Township - Counselors, Interventionists, Psychologist (Illinois)
25. CLC - IT (Illinois)
26. Porter Health System Techs (Vermont)
27. Inspira Medical Center RNs (New Jersey)
28. Cass Lake-Bena Paraprofessionals (Minnesota)
29. Bemidji Paraprofessionals (Minnesota)
30. Porter Health System Service and Maintenance Workers (Vermont)
31. Montana State Library Librarians (Montana)
32. University of Michigan Medicine Lab Techs (Michigan)
33. UM - Flint Full-time Faculty (Michigan)
34. Neighborhood House Charter School Professional Employees (Massachusetts)
35. Neighborhood House Charter School Non-Professional Employees (Massachusetts)
36. Providence Medical Group Nurse Practitioners (Oregon)
37. Providence Cardiac Care (Oregon)
38. WMU Medical Center Resident Physicians (Michigan)
39. University of Montana Graduate Employees (Montana)
40. Chesapeake County CC Full-time Faculty (Maryland)
41. Montana State Hospital Nurse Practitioners (Montana)
42. Providence Health and Services RNs and Support Staff (Oregon)
43. University of Kansas Faculty and Academic Staff (Kansas)
44. Hagerstown Community College Full-time Faculty (Maryland)
45. Virginia Mason Medical Center Nurses (Washington)
46. Capital City Public Charter School Teachers and Staff (District of Columbia)
47. Second City Teachers, Facilitators, and Cast Members (New York)
48. Lab Corp. - Portland (Oregon)
49. Lab Corp. - Gresham (Oregon)
50. Lab Corp. - Silverton (Oregon)
51. Lab Corp. - Tualatin (Oregon)
52. Lab Corp. - Beaverton (Oregon)
53. Lab Corp. - Portland (Oregon)
54. Lab Corp. - Vancouver (Washington)
55. Rogers Park Montessori Teachers and Teaching Assistants (Illinois)
56. DC International Charter School Professionals and Non-Professionals (District of Columbia)
57. Lycee Francais Professional Unit (Louisiana)
58. Upper Arlington Public Library Librarians and Library Workers (Ohio)
59. Avajo Technical University Professors and Lecturers (New Mexico)
60. Brooklyn Prospect Clinton Hill Middle School Charter Professionals and Non-Professionals (New York)
61. PeaceHealth Southwest Professional Employees (Washington)
62. PeaceHealth Home Hospice Professionals (Washington)
63. Codman Academy Charter School Professional Employees (Massachusetts)
64. PeaceHealth Southwest Physical and Occupational Therapy Assistants (Washington)
65. Detroit Medical Center Resident Physicians (Michigan)
66. Community Charter School of Cambridge Nonprofessionals (Massachusetts)
67. Codman Academy Charter School Nonprofessional Employees (Massachusetts)
68. Community Charter School of Cambridge Professionals (Massachusetts)
69. Fairfax County Public Schools Operational Unit (Virginia)
70. Fairfax County Public Schools Instructional Unit (Virginia)
71. University of Michigan Medicine LPNs and Techs (Michigan)
72. University of Maryland Medical Center Resident Physicians (Maryland)
73. Coschocton Medical Center LPNs and Surgical Techs (Ohio)
74. Winchendon School Professionals (New York)
75. Washtenaw Educational Options Consortium (Michigan)
76. Providence Eldercare RNs, LPNs, and Techs (Oregon)
77. Tuality Healthcare RNs (Oregon)
78. Legacy Health Clinics Advanced Practice Providers (Oregon)
79. Legacy Health Clinics Doctors (Oregon)
80. NYC DOE Public Schools Facilities Staff, Area Managers, and School Plant Managers (New York)
81. Westinghouse Arts Academy Charter School Teachers and Support Staff (Pennsylvania)
82. Job Corp, Buffalo (New York)
83. Neil Hellman School Teachers and Staff (New York)
84. Pioneer Memorial Hospital RNs and LPNs (Oregon)
85. LabCorp Portland Lab Techs (Oregon)
86. St. Charles Hospital (Bend) RN Case Managers (Oregon)
87. New Mexico School for the Deaf Faculty and Staff (New Mexico)
88. Whatcom Community College Pro Staff (Washington)
89. Athens County Librarians (Ohio)
90. Providence Benedictine RNs (Oregon)
91. University of Vermont Medical Center Utilization Management Nurse Specialists (Vermont)
92. Citizens of the World Charter School (California)
93. Central Vermont Medical Center Support Staff (Vermont)
94. Legacy Emanuel Behavioral Health Techs (Oregon)
95. Community College of Baltimore County (Maryland)
96. PeaceHealth Southwest Oncology RNs (Washington)
97. Baltimore City Community College (Maryland)
98. Paul Cuffee Charter School Upper School Faculty (Rhode Island)
99. King Center Charter School Faculty (New York)
100. One Health RNs (Montana)
101. Vermont Legal Aid (Vermont)
102. Samaritan Pacific Communities Case Managers RNs (Oregon)
103. Paul Cuffee Charter School Lower School Faculty (Rhode Island)
104. UCMC Mobile Care RNs (Ohio)
105. Mary Cariola United (New York)
106. Legacy Go Health Advanced Practice Providers (Oregon)
107. Delaware County District Library Workers (Ohio)
108. Providence St. Patrick Cancer Center RNs (Montana)
109. Legacy Health Physicians (Oregon)
110. Lockport School District Monitors (New York)
111. Northwestern Medical Center RNs (Vermont)
112. Legacy Randall Children's Hospital Nurses (Oregon)
113. Legacy Emanuel Nurses (Oregon)
114. Legacy Good Samaritan RNs (Oregon)
115. Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (Vermont)
116. UVM Techs (Vermont)
117. University of Michigan Student & Instructional Services Staff (Michigan)
118. LabCorp Lab Techs (Oregon)
119. MSU Extension Staff (Michigan)
120. Partners in Home Care Workers (Montana)
121. Metro Behavioral Health RNs (Ohio)
122. Ohio University Full-Time Faculty (Ohio)
123. Francis Parker School Assistant Teachers (Illinois)
124. Nevada State University Full-Time Faculty (Nevada)
125. Legacy Clinics Registered Nurses and RN Case Managers (Oregon)
126. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Medical Faculty (New Jersey)
127. Nazareth University Professionals (New York)
128. Mary Bridge Children's Hospital Physicians (Washington)
129. Breakthrough Montessori Public Charter School Teachers and Staff (District of Columbia)
130. Paul Cuffee Charter School Middle School Faculty and Staff (Rhode Island)
131. UVM Health Network Home Health and Hospice Professionals and Non-Professionals (Vermont)
132. Norwalk Educational Personnel (Connecticut)
133. Judicial Professional Employees (Connecticut)
134. Seattle Children's Hospital Case Managers (Washington)
135. Legacy Health Resource/Float Pool RNs (Oregon)
136. UIUC Research Assistants (Illinois)
137. New Foundations K-8 Charter School Faculty and Staff (Pennsylvania)
138. Legacy Specialty APP Peds (Oregon)
139. Bozeman Health Big Sky Medical Center RNs (Montana)
140. Socorro School District PSRPs (New Mexico)
141. Federation of Mineral County Sheriff's Employees, Sheriff's Deputies and Detention Center Officers (Montana)
142. Arts and College Preparatory Academy (Ohio)
143. Porter Medical Center Professional Employees (Vermont)
144. Multicare Mary Bridge NICU Case Managers (Washington)
145. Clinton Community College Faculty (New York)
146. Portland Providence Medical Center Techs (Oregon)
147. Englewood Hospital Case Managers (New Jersey)
148. Esperanza Academy Charter High School (Pennsylvania)
149. Alliant International University Faculty (California)
150. Explore Academy Charter School Educators (New Mexico)
151. Madapequa Library Workers (New York)
152. Illinois State University Professional Staff (Illinois)
153. Backus Hospital Oncology and Infusion RNs (Connecticut)
154. Providence Willamette Medical Center Techs (Oregon)
155. Multicare Tacoma General Hospital Per Diem Nurses (Washington)
156. Kittitas Valley Healthcare Clinic RN Group (Washington)
157. Inspira Medical Center Vineland Case Managers (New Jersey)
158. Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice (New Jersey)
159. Flathead Community College Trade Instructors (Montana)
160. Multicare Tacoma General Hospital Case Managers (Washington)
161. Moore College of Art and Design Staff (Pennsylvania)
162. UNH Clinical Faculty (New Hampshire)
163. Providence Portland Medical Center Professionals (Oregon)
164. Ohio State University Medical Center Anesthesia Techs (Ohio)
165. Rutland Regional Medical Center Support Staff (Vermont)
166. Rutland Regional Medical Center Techs (Vermont)
167. Multicare Good Samaritan Oncology Triage RNs (Washington)
168. Oakland Medical Faculty (Michigan)
169. Art in Motion Charter School Educators (Illinois)
170. City Center for Collaborative Learning Charter School Professionals and Non-Professionals (Arizona)
171. Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital Techs (Oregon)
172. Six Directions Indigenous Charter School Teachers and Support Staff NM
173. Swedish Medical Group Hospitalists (Washington)
174. Seneca Family of Agencies Teachers and Staff (California)
175. Columbus Metropolitan Libraries Employees (Ohio)
176. New Bridge Medical Center Peer Recovery Specialists (New Jersey)
177. Ferris College Non-Tenure Faculty (Michigan)
178. Western PA School for Blind Children Staff (Pennsylvania)
UI-Springfield Non-Tenure Faculty (Illinois)
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Original text here: https://www.aft.org/press-release/aft-posts-highest-ever-membership-188-million-union-popularity-surges
AFL-CIO: The Labor Movement Rejects the President's Agenda to Deny Working People's Fundamental Rights
WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The AFL-CIO issued the following statement by President Liz Shuler:
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AFL-CIO: The Labor Movement Rejects the President's Agenda to Deny Working People's Fundamental Rights
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement in response to President Trump's national address on elections:
Tonight, President Trump pushed years-old, thoroughly debunked, alarmingly dangerous conspiracy theories in an effort to undermine our elections and deny Americans their fundamental freedoms. The purpose is clear: divide, scare and intimidate working people to stop the election
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WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The AFL-CIO issued the following statement by President Liz Shuler:
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AFL-CIO: The Labor Movement Rejects the President's Agenda to Deny Working People's Fundamental Rights
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement in response to President Trump's national address on elections:
Tonight, President Trump pushed years-old, thoroughly debunked, alarmingly dangerous conspiracy theories in an effort to undermine our elections and deny Americans their fundamental freedoms. The purpose is clear: divide, scare and intimidate working people to stop the electionof public officials who will hold the rich and powerful accountable for their greed.
It's also a blatant attempt to distract from the fact that everything is too expensive, working people are struggling, and his administration's policies are only making it worse.
The labor movement rejects any attempt by the President of the United States or anyone else to weaken our democracy. We demand a government where elected leaders answer to working people--not billionaires, corporate CEOs or special interests.
Every day until November, the AFL-CIO and our affiliated unions are organizing and mobilizing, in our communities and to the ballot box, to turn out union voters and elect pro-worker candidates.
We're using our boots on the ground in every corner of this nation to run an extensive election protection program that ensures every vote is counted and every voice is heard. And we are standing up for one another--with the strength and solidarity of the workers who built this country--to defend the fundamental freedoms of all working people.
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Original text here: https://aflcio.org/press/releases/afl-cio-labor-movement-rejects-presidents-agenda-deny-working-peoples-fundamental
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