https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/82
Encourage / call members of Congress to pass this important bill eliminatting the "windfall clause" for social security. / pension.
Type in the above link into your computer to read the whole bill! Contact congress!
Here are our official endorsements for the April 24, 2021 election.
AFT-Wisconsin President Kim Kohlhaas recently published this opinion piece in the Cap Times. Read and share!
AFTPA President Arthur Steinberg, PFT President Jerry Jordan, and PFTHW Director of Environmental Science Jerry Roseman joined a critical hearing on Pennsylvania's toxic schools' crisis. The hearing, called by State Representatives Fiedler and Bizarro and State Senator Vincent Hughes, was an important avenue for advocating for the urgent resources we know are needed to ensure that our schools are free from environmental toxins.
Press Release by AFT-NH President Doug Ley
REPUBLICAN POLITICANS VOTE TO RAISE PROPERTY TAXES
CONCORD, N.H.— Today, during the New Hampshire House session, conservatives in the House voted for a budget that would dramatically cut education funding and raise property taxes for Granite Staters who need relief. AFT-NH President Doug Ley released the following statement:
Frontline Service Pay Act Uses Authority and Funding from the American Rescue Plan Act to Help Workers and Businesses Through Final Stages of the Pandemic
7 April 2021
Below you will find the link to all of the signed Tentative Agreements with the Hospital for member review. Further information will be provided at the Zoom Session, sent out through email and Facebook
"Thank you, Senator Hughes and thank you to the many speakers and representatives for coming today to request, to implore, to demand that our legislature does what is right by the children of Pennsylvania and fund our schools fairly and equitably." Read Benjamin's remarks:
