AFT Nurses & Health Professionals

09/10/2026

🚨Help Us Stop Forced Overtime: Tell Congress to pass the Nurse Overtime and Patient Safety Act.

👇Click on the links below to write a letter to Congress:

Actions page: www.aft.org/action
Healthcare page: www.aft.org/healthcare

Healthcare is a human right, but privatization, deregulation, consolidation, and the financialization of healthcare have weakened health systems and harmed families, patients, students and workers, through poorer outcomes and higher costs. Healthcare delivery is increasingly controlled by prof...

08/21/2026

is coming up on September 1st. AFT believes in the importance of proper respiratory protection to support the health and safety of all workers. Join us in spreading awareness and learning more through NIOSH’s respiratory protection resources. See below for resources:

NIOSH resources to download, print, and use to promote proper respiratory protection practices.

08/11/2026

Let's be clear: there is no scientific evidence to support delayed or skipped childhood vaccinations. Over the last 30 years, childhood vaccines have prevented over one million deaths. This EO does not just ignore decades of rigorous scientific evidence; it directly threatens the lives of every child and community.

Growing vaccine hesitancy, driven by misinformation and disinformation, threatens the health of American children and communities.

08/11/2026

Yesterday, Trump signed an executive order proposing fewer childhood vaccines and separating the MMR vaccine into 3 individual shots. This reckless move will put children and communities' lives at risk when measles cases are already at a 35-year high, and the US is set to lose its measles elimination status.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different single-disease shots.

07/30/2026

61 years ago, Medicaid was signed into law.

1 year ago, the GOP gutted it to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations.

Now, nearly 4 million people have lost Medicaid coverage - but millions more will lose it soon.

Tell the GOP: Reverse Medicaid cuts NOW.

07/30/2026

The Trump admin is ending the Medicare Part D subsidy that keeps drug premiums stable for 25 million Americans. Ending this subsidy worsens the by increasing premiums for seniors and people with disabilities, forcing them to choose between healthcare, food, and rent.

Without these extra subsidies in place for 2027, some Part D stand-alone drug plan (PDP) enrollees could see a larger premium increase for drug coverage next year than they’ve faced in recent years, though plan-specific premium amounts are not yet known. While some policymakers questioned the rati...

06/26/2026

AFT's Student Debt Clinic Tue 7/28, 7pm ET (4pm PT)
Register for these and see more upcoming dates at the link below:
https://web.cvent.com/event/e9c61181-c2f6-40d4-9ce4-013f1f911889/register

The AFT Debt Navigator tool is available at any time to get folks started with free resources as well: https://www.aft.org/debt-navigator

Public Service Loan Forgiveness is a federal program for people who work full time in the public sector or for certain nonprofit organizations. It can lead to borrowers having their remaining federal student loan balance forgiven after 120 qualifying payments. Almost every AFT member is eligible for...

06/26/2026

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to end temporary protected status protections for thousands of workers from Haiti and Syria who live and work legally in the United States:

06/26/2026

Ending TPS is a direct blow to the healthcare workforce. In some states, Haitian immigrants make up

LeadingAge contributed to, and is cited in, a new congressional report that documents how ending Haitian TPS would deepen staffing shortages, disrupt patient care, and further strain aging services providers as they navigate workforce challenges.

05/27/2026

We send heartfelt support to all those who have been affected by this accident.