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Skip to main content Home About Us About Us Leadership Contact Us American Federation of Teachers-Kansas AFT.org AFSCME.ORG News News Press Photos Resources Resources Your MOA KOSE STEWARD LIST Health and Safety Pension Benefits Grievances Membership Join the KOSE Key Documents Member Benefits Actions & Events Take Action Legislation Events 1 2 JOIN KOSE NOW CLICK ABOVE TO JOIN KOSE NOW! Will you STICK with your UNION? We Are! Here at KOSE we will stick with our UNION and our Members as we have always done since 2007 when KOSE was created. And we want to know if you are willing to do the same? Let us know by taking a selfie proclaiming you are #UNION or are I am Stickin With Your UNION! post your picture on your selected social media and tag us on either Facebook or Twitter or better yet on both. 1 2 AFT members dive into candidate endorsement process As the presidential elections inch closer and the field of candidates gets more and more competitive, AFT members are engaging, parsing campaign platforms, asking questions of the candidates, and voicing their priorities as educators, healthcare practitioners and public employees. Thus far, the AFT has hosted eight AFT Votes town halls in eight different locations across the country, giving members the opportunity to meet candidates in person and hear about their stands on education, working families, healthcare and other top-line issues. Also part of the AFT’s robust endorsement process: surveys, debate parties and lots of information on AFTVotes.org. more Best economy ever? In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest column in the New York Times , she writes that, despite President Trump’s claims that we have the “best economy ever,” his policies are harming working and middle-class Americans, many of whom are struggling just to get by. “Our political and economic systems are so weighted toward the wealthy that opportunity will only come through the power of collective action,” she writes, using “the surest vehicles to increase opportunity for ordinary Americans”—public education, labor unions and voting. Read the full column . AFT launches massive national campaign to fund public education The AFT’s long-time advocacy for public schools has just been turbo-charged, with a sweeping, multi-pronged campaign to fund the future of American public education. Amid the continuing wave of teacher activism shining a spotlight on massive shortfalls in education investment, the Fund Our Future initiative aims to take the teachers’ megaphone into Congress, statehouses and communities nationwide. more Never again “A majority of American teens say they are worried about a shooting happening at their school. Let that sink in,” AFT President Randi Weingarten writes in her latest column for the New York Times . “Young people are demanding meaningful action beyond ‘thoughts and prayers.’ They know, as do law enforcement officers and educators, that there are effective ways to address gun violence.” Read more about the proven strategies that would enhance school safety and reduce gun violence . We can fight back against the private prison operators that fuel mass incarceration It’s time to divest from private prisons: The US incarcerates more prisoners than any other nation in the world - and private prisons profit. Our new report details how AFT members can encourage their pension funds to divest from private prison corporations. more Strikes and shutdowns In Los Angeles, UTLA members took to the picket lines because their schools are starved of resources. In Washington, D.C., President Trump has shut down the government to secure his border wall. In her monthly New York Times column, AFT President Randi Weingarten writes that when our elected leaders fail, whether by not funding public schools or by shutting down services that provide for our safety, they strike at the very heart of what makes us a democratic republic. Read the full column . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next › last » Search Search CLICK HERE TO JOIN KOSE NOW! SHARE IF YOU ARE STICKING WITH YOUR #UNION #IamUNION #IamKOSE #IamStickingWithMyUNION Email Signup '); //-- Follow us: @KOSE_Union Tweets by @KOSE_Union Join the conversation RSS AFT © American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. All rights reserved. Photographs and illustrations, as well as text, cannot be used without permission from the AFT. Privacy Policy Administrator login...