Voters showed up in record numbers to send a message that they want leaders who will tackle the kitchen-table issues they face every day—from education to soaring housing and healthcare costs to the price of groceries, child care and college. www.aft.org/press-releas...

This is what happens when politicians recklessly pass laws to advance their own anti-public education agenda. Longstanding local working relationships are destroyed. Educators and students are harmed. matternews.org/voices/the-w...

Please read this story! Sen. Cirino’s comments would be comical if they were not so blatantly tone deaf! Was he not listening when over 1,000 people testified about the negative impacts of SB1? Or did he just not care?!

Budgets are about choices. The Republican legislators and Gov chose to give tax breaks to the wealthy and money for a stadium while underfunding public schools and libraries. Shame on them! They should never win another election.

OFT Pres. @mcropper.bsky.social on the Ohio Senate's budget & school funding: “By gutting essential components of the Fair School Funding Plan & using outdated cost inputs, the budget released today by the Ohio Senate fails to deliver what our students, communities, and taxpayers need and deserve.”

Regardless of what you think about vouchers- which have been used to defund public schools- this version of is simply a redestribution of wealth -creating a new ideological tax cut for the wealthy while Trump is trying to strip not 4 profit status away from others. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

Rural communities depend on strong connections between neighbors, local businesses, nonprofits and local government. Public schools are the glue that holds these connections together. We need to stand together to fight against voucher expansion that threatens funding to our public schools.

Rebecca Bihn, from Oregon City Schools, shares how the district makes career awareness a part of students’ education starting in K and continuing through graduation. Great conversation at the Career ConnectED Learning Policy Discussion.

Education is our kids future. Education is our country’s future. Mr. President, we will see you in court. www.aft.org/press-releas...

Opposition to SB1 (Higher Education Destruction Act)continues to grow. The Majority party in the legislature continues to shut out their voices.

Defunding libraries? Is this really why people voted for this administration?

OFT Pres. @mcropper.bsky.social responds to Trump's plan to dismantle IMLS: "Funding for libraries of all types is 0.003% of the federal budget…Revoking this meager support doesn’t make an impact on the federal deficit, but it does put a financial strain on institutions on which Ohioans rely."

States & local school boards control schools but rely on federal funds: 🧑‍🦽 7.4M students with disabilities lose services 🎓 10M students lose federal aid for college/trades 🏫 26M low-income students lose Title I support 🌾 9.8M rural students lose critical funding www.aft.org/column/robbi...

Huge crowd on OSU campus rallying against SB1. The Senate ignored the over 1000 pieces of opposition testimony. Let’s make sure the House listens. #StopSB1 #ProtectOurKids

Protect—don’t wreck—our children’s futures. My latest column: www.aft.org/column/prote...

I suspect no one who voted for Trump thought he would let Musk invade their privacy. Right now, inside the Dept of Ed, the world’s richest man is rifling through 45M people’s private student loan accounts and feeding the data into AI. www.aft.org/press-releas... apnews.com/article/trum...

NEWS: Read our joint statement with @ohioea.bsky.social and Ohio Conference of @aaup.bsky.social calling for amendments to SB 1 (The Higher Education Destruction Act). These amendments will mitigate harm by protecting workers' rights and academic freedom and reducing bureaucracy.

"The worst effects [of private school vouchers] would be felt in Ohio’s rural communities because rural districts are more dependent on state funding and don’t have the density to support competing school systems." www.limaohio.com/columns/2025...

OFT President @mcropper.bsky.social in The Lima News: "The worst effects [of private school vouchers] would be felt in Ohio’s rural communities because rural districts are more dependent on state funding and don’t have the density to support competing school systems."

The 28th amendment! Law of the land!

Millions of retirees and workers just got a raise in retirement income ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/16/m...

Our children deserve better! Ohio needs to fully and fairly fund public education instead of diverting 1B+ to private school vouchers.

Have you saved all of your student loan financial records? Please share widely to spread the word!

Chances are, you know someone impacted by the Social Security Fairness Act. This article mentions a few of the thousand Ohioans who are now going to get the retirement they earned. Thanks to @aftunion.bsky.social and all labor unions and activists who worked on this. And thank you Sherrod Brown!

” If the speaker thinks there isn’t enough education funding to go around, Ohio law is very clear. The legislature must fund public schools and make cuts to the costly and ineffective universal private school vouchers that were put in place…” bit.ly/409dkGo

Solidarity!!!

Breaking news! Welcome SEIU. Welcome back to the AFL-CIO. This is great news for our movement and for everyone who wants to form a union to make the goal of a better life and a better America a reality.

Senator Schumer said it best. The passage of the #SocialSecurityFairnessAct corrects a 50 year mistake, giving teachers, firefighters, law enforcement officers, and thousands of public employees dignity and fairness in retirement. www.cbsnews.com/news/social-...

Fighting for Social Security Fairness.. After 40 years we are ending the forfeiture caused by WEP and GPO!! Thank you to all these change makers

Thank you @aftunion.bsky.social for making the #SocialSecurityFairnessAct a priority and working tirelessly to get it passed. And thanks to Sen. Sherrod Brown for this bill, Pres. Biden for signing, and @aflcio.org leaders and activists across the country for living the power of collective action.

Thank you to @aftunion.bsky.social @rweingarten.bsky.social for relentlessly working to get this bill passed. This is the power of unions and collective action.

"Labor has been forged through struggle…Whatever happens, we’ll work our way through it, and we’ll come out stronger on the other end.” -- @mcropper.bsky.social in @matternews.bsky.social's look at labor and the new presidential administration

🚨BOYCOTT STARBUCKS🚨 Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni...

Thank you Senator Sherrod Brown!

Education, good jobs, and the labor movement empower people to improve their lives. New column from @rweingarten.bsky.social dives into what’s next after the election—and how we can build a better future for all. Read it here: www.aft.org/column/how-m...

There are no words for this betrayal of working people by Manchin and Sinema. This is why workers are so sour on politicians . Manchin & Sinema voting with all the Rs againt a pro worker nominee. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

There are many fights still to come, but this decision stands to make a huge difference for educators. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

“Librarians do not ask for much. We deserve to be able to live a life that doesn’t demand that we barely scrape by every month.” Solidarity with the members of the Faculty Alliance of Miami!

“One defeat, however stunning, does not discredit the value of persuasion and coalition-building. They take time. They still work.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

It is significant that the Pres-elect nominated Rep. Chavez-DeRemer for Labor. Her record suggests real support of workers & their right to unionize. I hope it means the Trump admin will actually respect collective bargaining and workers' voices from Teamsters to teachers.

What do Americans need? A great education and a union contract so they can get ahead, build the middle class and ensure communities can rise together.

Please call your senators to get this over the finish line! Especially if you live in NY—contacting Sen Schumer is super important! It’s a long overdue fix to help our public sector retirees (incl teachers, firefighters, govt & public safety workers) get their full, deserved social security:

Libraries should be safe havens for workers and patrons alike. We don’t often think of library workers facing unsafe conditions, but they do on a regular basis. I fully support these workers in their fight for safe working conditions!

"LaborLab, a nonprofit organization dedicated to opposing employer coercion and intimidation where I work, is launching an effort to ensure every union and worker center in the country is aware of the law."

Did you know that the average starting salary for a worker after completing a Registered Apprenticeship is $80,000? This week is National Apprenticeship Week, so it’s a great time to find an apprenticeship program for you! aflcio.org/issues/bette...

Can someone explain to me why fighting for policies championed 80 years ago by one of the most popular Presidents in our nation’s history make me a “progressive?” Also, pretty sure these are supported by a super majority of voters. Does that mean everyone else should be called regressives?

The state attorney general's office backed the districts up. “Not only is this edict unenforceable, it is contrary to parents’ rights, local control and individual free-exercise rights.” www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e... www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...