Public Services International

"No Going Back to Normal" in 2021

When I accepted a Connecticut People’s World Committee "Amistad Award" last month, I began my remarks by recognizing our members. They are the ones who are out there fighting the good fights and making — as Congressman John Lewis would have said — "good trouble." I credited our educators and school support staff, nurses and healthcare workers, higher education professionals and public employees who have done amazing things over this past year.
 

PSI Embraces Educational Support Staff

Members of AFT's Paraprofessional and School-Related Personnel (PSRP) division and AFT Secretary-Treasurer Lorretta Johnson joined Public Services International (PSI), the global public service workers union, to help kick off its new endeavor, the Educational Support and Cultural Workers Network, at its founding meeting Tuesday in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The two labor organizations stood in solidarity with school support workers around the world to create a new structure for addressing such urgent issues as funding for public education, job security, privatization and the right to organize among public school support staff.
 
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