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Data-Driven AP Lifts Up Students, Teachers

Lizzy Crispin headed the committee that led Leonardo da Vinci High School to become the first and only Blue Ribbon high school in Buffalo, New York.

Increase in Job-Related Deaths

Overall, fatalities on the job rose 5.7%. The rise in fatal occupational injuries from 2021 to 2022 is “alarming and unacceptable” to the AFL-CIO.

A Career in Dance and Musical Theater

Her students voted her National Honor Society Teacher of the Year, in recognition of her work in the classroom.

Buy American Will Create Jobs

Our tax dollars should be used to create jobs and advance production here at home.

Chicago Principals Offer Solution to Safely Reopen Schools

Chicago school principals, assistant principals and school leaders are calling for a school reopening pilot program.

Register: Social/Emotional Support Professional Development Webinar

There is a big social and emotional toll the COVID-19 pandemic is having on our school communities.

Union Workers Held Jobs More During Pandemic

Workers able to act collectively and bargain through their union, have been able to secure enhanced safety measures.

AFSA Joins Effort on Hill for State and Local Relief

AFSA joined other education,  labor and social justice organizations asking Congress to help communities around the country.

In a letter to Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer the groups wrote:

Biden, AFL-CIO Labor Law Agendas Track Each Other

Go to incoming Democratic President Joe Biden’s “Building Back Better” agenda on his website and read through it. The word “union,” the phrase “right to organize” and especially the word “worker” run through it like a constant thread.

No wonder AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, in a Jan. 12 telephone press conference, considered Biden the most pro-worker president in decades. “And in one week and one day, Joe Biden will be inaugurated and we’re ready to work with him.”