#AFT

General Strike Nowstrike@libranet.de
2026-02-28
The massive community outrage and the growing demands for a general strike have prompted authorities in the Democratic Party-dominated state to try to ...#reprisals #AFT #NEA #teacher #ICEOut #nationalwalkout #Trump #studentwalkout #UTLA #ICEraids
Teachers face illegal reprisals over support for student walkouts against ICE
General Strike Nowstrike@libranet.de
2026-02-14

From Minneapolis to the Bay Area, workers and youth are increasingly raising the question of collective action and a general strike against ...

San Francisco educators, on strike since February 9, should reject with contempt the betrayal of their four-day strike and expand the struggle to Los Angeles and beyond.#SanFrancisco #teachers #GavinNewsom #UUESF #AFT #Weingarten #defendpubliceducation #teacherstrike #austerity
Vote “No” to betrayal of San Francisco teachers’ strike! No more sacrificing livelihoods and social rights while billionaires feast!

General Strike Nowstrike@libranet.de
2026-02-11

Minnesota teachers, school districts go to court to evict ICE - People's World

MINNEAPOLIS—In Inver Grove Heights, Minn., ICE agents arrested a special ed paraprofessional in the Concord Education Center parking lot in that suburb south of St. Paul.#labor #us #aft #ice #minnesota #schools #teachers #unions
Minnesota teachers, school districts go to court to evict ICE

Big Blu GnuBig_Blue_Gnu
2026-01-28

Why do we have a Drug Enforcement Agency and a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives? Are states really too stupid to be trusted to enforce their own laws? It seems to me like a waste of taxpayers' money, not to mention lives in need of medications...

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Peter_Link@expressional.social
2025-10-19

Biggest US labor unions fuel No Kings protests against #Trump: ‘You need a voice to have freedom’

With more than 2,700 events planned across the US, one organizer, James Phipps, 75, says: ‘Protest is all I’ve done all my life’

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Michael Sainato
Sat 18 Oct 2025 05.00 EDT

Some of the largest #LaborUnions in the #US are involved in organizing the #NoKings protests, with more than 2,700 demonstrations planned across all 50 states, with the #ServiceEmployeesInternationalUnion (#SEIU) and #AmericanFederationOfTeachers (#AFT) anchoring events.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o

#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #TradeUnions #USA #USpol
#news #politics

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯cryptadamist@universeodon.com
2025-10-19

MAGA chud Asra Nomani and the "Pearl Project" have assembled a detailed spreadsheet of information about the roughly 300 "financial backers" of the "Hate America Protests" today. Includes but not limited to:

- #ACLU
- #Indivisible
- #AFL / #CIO
- Teachers unions (#AAUP, #AFT, etc.)
- Engineers unions (#IFPTE, etc.)
- Healthcare unions (nurses etc)
- #DNC / #Democrats
- Atheist groups (#FFRF etc)
- #WomensMarch
- #Greenpeace

these groups will all be targeted soon. you should expect all these groups to be attacked and many of them to be destroyed via tax audits or similar in the next few years

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

#unions #AFLCIO #uspol #uspolitics #nokings #maga #DataRepublican

screenshot of linked google sheet
2025-09-20

Randi Weingarten (president of the American Federation of Teachers) & Jennifer Rubin: Public #education in the face of #fascism: Randi Weingarten in conversation. “I want people to use my #book (Why Fascists Fear Teachers), to think about all the craziness, the #censorship, the basically erasing of #history, and I want us to be clever and engaged and teacherish in terms of what we do.”

#TheContrarian #union #teachers #AFT #publiceducation #authoritarianism
contrarian.substack.com/p/publ

Andrew Abdalianabdalian@lingo.lol
2025-07-08

This is a naked PR move for #LLM-based #AI companies. It will normalize the use of LLMs in the classroom and enable them to market themselves to children.

Tech companies make deals with school districts, but the difference here is that the product they're selling is cognitive offloading.

I have no idea what teachers will gain by going to this "training center" other than indoctrination. The head of the #AFT should be put in timeout to think about what she’s done.

nytimes.com/2025/07/08/technol

Catherine Schmidtlillyfinch@mstdn.social
2025-07-06

#Politics #ICE #Law ##LawEnforcement #Military #Wall #FBI #AFT #USMarshalls #BureaukfPrisons #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 7/6/25
LARGEST ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IN U.S. HISTORY
Trump brownshirts

Heather Cox Richardson 7/6/25

LARGEST ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IN U.S. HISTORY

Trump brownshirts

What the law does do, though, is pour $170.7 billion into immigration enforcement—more than the military budgets of all but fifteen countries. The law provides $51.6 billion to build a wall on the border, more than three times what Trump spent on the wall in his first term. It provides $45 billion for detention facilities for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an increase of 265% in ICE's annual detention budget. It provides $29.9 billion for ICE enforcement, a threefold increase in ICE's annual budget. According to Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council, the law gives ICE more funding than the Federal Bureau of Investigations; Drug Enforcement Administration; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; U.S. Marshals Service; and Bureau of Prisons combined. In fact, Reichlin-Melnick told Democracy Now!, the law will make ICE the largest federal law enforcement agency “in the history of the nation.”

And now, with the MAGA Republican political realignment in place, we wait to see whether it delivers the golden age Trump and his MAGA loyalists promise.

The early signs are not auspicious.
Rauf Atilla Polatraufatillapolat
2025-07-01

Ağız kokusu ve yarası için...

Was searching for upcoming new book by #AFT President Randi Weingarten called "Why Fascists Fear Teachers" and as I typed into the search engine, "Why fascists..." the search engine suggested "Why fascists hate universities." Hmmm. Close. ...and telling.

#fascism

Następny zespół przed wami w wymyślonym cyklu Alfabetyczny Przegląd Tidala #AFT Added Color tidal.com/browse/artis... Przyznam szczerze że w tej chwili nie wiem skąd się to wzięło na mojej liście xD Są nagrania lepsze i takie mniej słuchalne. Muza raczej spokojna. Można rzucić uchem.

Added Color

2025-03-20

#Teachers sue #Trump admin for stopping affordable #StudentLoan repayment plans

The American Federation of Teachers represents 1.8 million educators.

By Leah Sarnoff, March 19, 2025

"One of America's largest unions is taking aim at President Donald Trump's administration for shutting down access to affordable student loan repayment plans -- saying the decision is 'effectively breaking' the system.

"The American Federation of Teachers (#AFT), representing 1.8 million educators across the country, filed a lawsuit against the #DepartmentOfEducation in Washington, D.C., hoping to restore the programs that have now been shuttered for three weeks.

"The filing alleges the administration halting the application process for all Income-Driven Repayment (#IDR) plans and ordering student loan servicers to stop all processing violates #FederalLaw.

"AFT sued the United States Department of Education (ED) for effectively breaking the student loan system, denying borrowers' access to affordable loan payments and blocking progress towards Public Service Loan Forgiveness (#PSLF), in violation of federal law,' the union said in a statement Wednesday."

abcnews.go.com/Politics/teache
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #BadDOGE #ResistDOGE #Authoritarianism #USPol

2025-01-25

@designedbymichael
Thanks for sharing this! I joined this site in late 2023 and love seeing the continued discussion.

The (#UAW) are calling for a nationwide on May 1, 2028, .

Did you know the (#AFT) aligned their contract expiration for the same date? They passed a resolution in July 2024.

With 1.8 million members in 2024, AFT is the second-largest teachers' union in the U.S.

aft.org/resolution/supporting-

2024-12-02

Securing blockchain governance: #AFT 2024's research on accountable leader elections in PoS protocols aims to prevent bad-faith actors in decentralized systems. #BlockchainGovernance #PoS #divaexchange

diva.exchange/en/privacy/advan

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