Today’s the day! Don’t miss our Spring Town Hall TONIGHT @5PM!
Tune in to learn about school safety teams to support students & families navigating ICE intimidation, hear from organizers at Berklee about their work to unionize staff, and ask Gov. Healey your questions!
RSVP at tinyurl.com/SPTH26
Happy National Unicorn—we mean, “Unique-corn”—Day from Boston’s Baldwin Early Learning Center!🦄
President @jessjtang.bsky.social, @btu66.bsky.social VP Lea Serena, and BPL PSA & MLSA VP Pres. Allie Hahn read unicorn books at Baldwin's “Unique-corn” Day, which celebrates what makes all of us unique!
Thank you to the thousands of incredible AFT Massachusetts paras for all you do to support our students, our schools, and our communities. We promise we’ll never back down in our fight to win the wages, benefits, and recognition you deserve.
The best day to thank a para is:
⭕️ Today
⭕️ Tomorrow
🔴 EVERY DAY!
Join us in celebrating #ParaprofessionalAppreciationDay today by showing a para in your life some love and showing up for them when they bargain their next contract.
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UMassD GSU has a TA!!
UMass Dartmouth grad student workers fought hard to form a union three years ago, & today they finally have a tentative agreement on their first contract!
Congrats to the UMassD GSU members who worked so hard to get here & the whole UMassD Maintainers community!
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This movement began more than two years ago, unifying staff from across Berklee's Boston campus, including both the College of Music and Boston Conservatory.
Congratulations, BCM & BCB Staff Union! AFT MA is proud to support your incredible organizing.
Onward!
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Berklee staff are UNIONIZING!! 💪🥳🎺
Today, Berklee staff delivered a petition to recognize their union to College President Jim Lucchese, signed by a supermajority of staff—backed by a brass band and the most joyful union march across campus.
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Brant Duncan of @aftmass.bsky.social on the fiscal crisis facing communities: “To call the situation dire would not be hyperbolic.” #mapoli
Over 250 AFT MA and fellow union members showed up today as part of No Kings III to 🧊🙅🏻♀️ DE-ICE CITIZENS BANK!! 🙅🏻♀️🧊
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Together they brought attention to the fiscal crisis many districts are facing, the need for strong state investment to support our schools, libraries, and universities, and ways to protect our most vulnerable students during these uncertain times.
President Tang and Lawrence Teachers Union President Kimberly Barry were invited to testify before the MA Legislature’s Joint Committee on Ways & Means yesterday about the FY27 budget.
Chelsea can still do the right thing and put together a budget that puts students first. We stand with our @ctu1340.bsky.social members and the entire Chelsea community in this fight to protect their students.
Chelsea's proposed budget would cut 70+ educators—meaning larger class sizes and major disruptions in services. Focusing cuts on teachers, counselors, & social workers who work directly with Chelsea students will only widen the opportunity gap that @ctu1340.bsky.social members work so hard to close.
@ctu1340.bsky.social members watched on proudly as hundreds of their students made their voices heard, advocating for themselves, their classmates, and their school community.
Over 500 Chelsea community members, students, and @ctu1340.bsky.social educators came together last night at the city's school budget hearing calling on the city to come up with a school budget that is good for students and fair to educators.
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Lawrence Teachers Union showing us what SOLIDARITY looks like!
Last week, LTU members across 24 schools united for a day of action calling on the district to honor the professional license pay that LTU’s PTs and OTs are entitled to—but which they still have not yet received!
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👏👏 AFT Massachusetts President @jessjtang.bsky.social featured as @aflcio.org's #WomensHistoryMonth leader of the day for her trailblazing work with the AFT!
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But so many people showed up to make their voices heard that the chambers couldn't fit everyone! Students demanded a venue change large enough for **everyone** to be heard, and the School Committee rescheduled the hearing to Tuesday.
Never underestimate the people of Chelsea.
See you Tuesday 💪
Did you see what Chelsea did? 👀
Last night, 400 @ctu1340.bsky.social educators, students, and community members turned out at the School Committee budget hearing to give feedback on their proposal to cut *76* student-facing positions (and zero central office staff) amid an enrollment crisis. (1/2)
Last Saturday, over 250 activists from 70 local labor & community groups gathered for the first MA Fight Back Table Solidarity School. We were lucky to be joined by so many inspiring speakers!
MA is organized & reday for our next days of action: No Kings III (3/28) & May Day (5/1)! See you there? 👀
Everyone did a great job, but those kids really shine through with their homemade signs. bsky.app/profile/aftm...
AFT MA is at the State House today with our friends for Common Start Lobby Day! Massachusetts families deserve quality, affordable, accessible child care!
AFT Massachusetts, Lynn Teachers Union 1037, Chelsea Teachers' Union #1340, and Boston Teachers Union joined Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance and fellow advocates to raise awareness of the devastating impacts of immigration-related enrollment declines are having on our school communities.
At schools across Boston, @btu66.bsky.social members & families are taking action today by passing out immigration rights leaflets to ensure our students, parents, & neighbors know their rights.
Stay tuned for more actions across the Commonwealth today! #March4Communities @aft.org
We’re kicking off @aft.org's Protect Our Communities day of action with @btu66.bsky.social at the Curley & Bates Schools!
#March4Communities is a national day of action mobilizing union educators, students, & communities to protect our kids, our families, and our communities.
“And it is teachers themselves who have been integral to the fight when there has been authoritarian backsliding.”
Thank you for having us, HKS!
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence when you study authoritarianism in other countries that it is the universities that are attacked first. It is public education system that is impacted at the very beginning,” President @jessjtang.bsky.social told Harvard Kennedy School students. (2/3)
President @jessjtang.bsky.social joined Harvard Kennedy School’s Labor Rights Caucus, Education Caucus, and Professor Archon Fung today for a discussion of public education and unions’ roles in combating rising authoritarianism. (1/3)
Greenhalge Elementary’s adoption of the community school model has been transformative for its students and families, and we’re always eager for a chance to show our support and gratitude to the amazing educators there!
Thank you for hosting us, UTL, and thank you to the educators of Lowell!
Starting off Read Across America Week right at the Greenhalge!
President @jessjtang.bsky.social, Secretary-Treasurer Duncan, and AFT MA staff joined United Teachers of Lowell’s own Mickie Dumont today in Lowell to read some of our favorite books to classes across Greenhalge Elementary School.