AFT Mobilizes for Smart Investments in Economic Recovery Package
AFT members are mobilizing in the union’s just-launched campaign, Fight for America’s Future: It’s Dollars and Sense, to build support in Washington and back home for the far-reaching economic recovery plan making its way through Congress that helps rebuild the nation’s schools, roads, bridges and more, and protects vital services threatened by shrinking state budgets.
AFT President Randi Weingarten says the campaign
isn’t just about dollars, but about the kind of smart investments that will help slow the economic free-fall and strengthen education, healthcare and public services in order to preserve opportunity in this country.
In addition to urging their lawmakers on Capitol Hill to craft a substantial recovery plan, AFT members also are working at the local level where, says Weingarten, essential services are “too often the first on the chopping block.”
