The AFT has formed a partnership with Medicare Interactive to connect members to an online source of information about healthcare rights, options and benefits. Medicare Interactive (MI) was created by the Medicare Rights Center, a national not-for-profit consumer...

The AFT is teaming up with the AFL-CIO to support a number of activities to help union colleagues and working families affected by Hurricane Katrina. This includes inviting our members to make charitable contributions to the AFL-CIO's Union Community Fund, labor's...

What is the truth behind the murky political rhetoric about 'special interests' and 'union bosses'? Come learn about the historical and current role of labor unions and American workers in politics and economics.  In addition to giving students a thorough historical...

 Buy your back-to-school supplies somewhere other than Wal-Mart this year The next time you see a "bargain" at the retail giant Wal-Mart, consider what it's costing workers‹and taxpayers‹in your community. As an AFT e-Activist, we are asking you to join your union in...

Millions of children and adults who lack health insurance coverage are actually eligible for publicly funded healthcare coverage but are not enrolled. The AFT again has joined with Covering Kids & Families, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to...

The House version of legislation to reauthorize the Higher Education Act "goes backwards on grant availability, backwards on loan affordability and backwards on academic freedom," says AFT president Edward J. McElroy. On July 22, the House Committee on Education and...