Randi Weingarten
By Randi Weingarten
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Sponsored A landmark reprieve from crushing student loan debt
Nicole Brun-Cottan’s work as a physical therapist in an intensive care unit is grueling. Her patients are critically ill, many with COVID-19, and she often works with them in their hospital beds because they can’t sit up on their own. At the end of each shift, physically and emotionally exhausted, Nicole heads home—to her mother’s…
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Sponsored Schools must be safe, welcoming — and open
Students are settling into the third straight school year disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Since Aug. 1, I have been on the road visiting public schools in 30 communities in 14 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. I’ve sensed the trepidation students, parents and school staff feel; how could they not, with the delta variant…
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Sponsored Vaccinate to stem the tide of COVID-19
Students and staff are returning to school amid the fourth wave of COVID-19 infections and deaths, the third straight school year under the cloud of the coronavirus, and more than 40 percent of eligible Americans—those 12 and older—having not gotten their second or even first vaccination. All this leaves me anguishing over what it will…
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Sponsored A safe and welcoming school year for all
Readers of a certain age will get it when I say that teachers absolutely MacGyvered the last 16 months. For everyone else, I’m referring to the ways educators improvised using what they had on hand, and their ingenuity, to complete their mission — educating and connecting with their students during a once-in-a-century pandemic. Educators have…
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Sponsored Saving our democracy
I was catching up on some reading this week, with the TV on in the background, when I heard the journalist A.B. Stoddard warn, “We might have had our last free and fair election.” I stiffened, because I knew she was exactly right and she was sounding an alarm. A fire is sweeping the country,…
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Sponsored Back to School for All: Return, Recover and Reimagine
Schools must open this fall. In person. Five days a week. With the space and health safeguards to do so. And my union, the American Federation of Teachers, is committed to making it happen. School is where children learn best, where they play together, form relationships and learn resilience. It’s where many children who otherwise…
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Sponsored Creating the freedom to thrive
America’s once-thriving middle class did not appear out of thin air. Federal economic policy helped seed it: New Deal programs, the GI Bill and the National Labor Relations Act’s enabling of union organizing all created conditions for shared prosperity and upward mobility—not for all Americans, to be sure, but for many. Today, the American economy…
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Opinion Letter to my community: My faith in Judaism and my faith in unions are one and the same
I’d like to clarify some comments I made in a recent interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Those remarks sparked a controversy. Unfortunately, a few issues got conflated in the interview. For that, I apologize. In the interview, I intended to point out that while there was a time in our Jewish communal history in…
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