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Q&AFT Magazine
America’s most powerful union leaders have a message for capital
...Foroohar: Randi, I know you have thoughts on this because you were so much in the heat of everything in the pandemic. Randi Weingarten, AFT: Kids, in particular, want some power....
March 7, 2024
Person in the News
Eva Mireles, teacher and victim of the latest US classroom massacre
...says Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers....
May 27, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Coronavirus
Biden administration prepares for end of ‘full-blown’ pandemic
...This week Randi Weingarten, head of the powerful American Federation for Teachers, said she would be willing to back an end to the mask mandate in schools, but only if there was zero transmission there....
February 11, 2022
Coronavirus
Chicago closes schools after teachers vote against return to classroom
...Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, blamed Chicago’s city authorities for failing to implement the necessary safety measures required to keep schools open....
January 5, 2022
Coronavirus: CDC urges Americans to avoid travel to France, Israel and Thailand - as it happened
US teacher union head backs mandatory jabs
...Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said she had changed her stance in favour of compulsory jabs because too many children were falling ill with coronavirus....
August 8, 2021
News in-depthCoronavirus
Delta surge is test for US schools as classrooms reopen
...Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said schools should be able to safely open full-time with mask mandates and increased vaccination....
September 6, 2021
FT Live
Investing in Piauí – Brazil
Exploring business opportunities and delivering sustainable growth
Friday, 17 May22 Vanderbilt, Madison Avenue, New York, NY, USA
News in-depthCovid-19 vaccines
Return to school and rising infections propel US child vaccine campaign
...“Vaccines are the single most important way of dealing with Covid,” Randi Weingarten, president of AFT, told NBC News television, adding that “we need to be working with our employers, not opposing them,...
August 14, 2021
Jill Biden
Jill Biden gives early glimpse of how she will play role of first lady
...“Most first ladies are very, very careful with what they do within the policy realm,” said Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers who attended the Connecticut school visit...
March 6, 2021
Coronavirus
CDC releases new guidance for US school reopenings
...Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, said in a statement: “Today the CDC met fear of the pandemic with facts and evidence....
February 12, 2021
Coronavirus
US teachers resist reopening schools despite European lessons
...Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, the national union for teaching staff, says the Washington city government is responsible, insisting that staff would return as long as...
December 6, 2020
Coronavirus economic impact
US prisons in a hole as pandemic slows inmate flow
...“Making money from injustice is no longer something that Wall Street countenances,” said AFT president Randi Weingarten. “Mass incarceration disproportionately hurts people of colour . . ....
July 6, 2020
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
Corporate America cannot be co-opted into every social cause
...Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said teachers and students should do their back-to-school shopping elsewhere if it did not....
August 14, 2019
General Motors Co
GM under fire from all sides over Ohio plant closure
...“When you have an employer like GM that closes rather than retrofits a plant in the wake of making billions of dollars of profit, something is really wrong,” said Randi Weingarten, the president of the AFT...
March 18, 2019
Private equity
PE firms pushed to offload prison company investments
...“[Prison-related] businesses carry investment risk and reputational risk,” said AFT president Randi Weingarten. “Those aren’t risks we want fiduciaries to be taking with our members’ pension savings.”...
February 10, 2019
FT Swamp Notes
Why the Janus decision will backfire for business
...As American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten recently pointed out to me, some 280 teachers have joined US political races in recent months....
July 2, 2018
FT Live
US Pharma and Biotech Summit
Strategies for innovation, pricing and access
Thursday, 16 MayNew York, NY, USA
UK companies
Teaching unions call for Pearson to sack John Fallon
...Randi Weingarten, the AFT president, denied that the call for Mr Fallon to be sacked was opportunistic....
May 4, 2017
InterviewLunch with the FT
Lunch with the FT: controversial schools reformer Michelle Rhee
...Randi Weingarten takes money from Gates, Eli Broad etc, the same people she wants to villainise all the time. They [critics] ask me, ‘Why are you taking money?’ It’s a little disingenuous....
October 4, 2013
US politics & policy
NRA-backed review urges guns in schools
...“Today’s NRA proposal is a cruel hoax that will fail to keep our children and schools safe,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers....
April 2, 2013

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