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AFT-WV receives constant questions about the law and educators' rights regarding planning periods. We've compiled a list and created a flyer featuring our members' most frequently asked questions. 

Click here to view the Planning Period FAQs. Feel free to print and share! 

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We've gone digital! 

The Insider, our AFT-WV newsletter, will now be delivered electronically to our members! A copy will be delivered to the email address we have on file for you. Additionally, you can find our newsletter here on our website, our social media pages, and through any other communication methods your local representatives utilize. 

Click here to read the April 2023 edition of The Insider. 

Leaders of the state’s two education employee organizations, AFT-West Virginia and WVEA, will hold focus groups to generate solutions to improve our public schools in ways that best support student success.

Click here to read the press release. 

Delegates at the 2022 AFT-WV Convention approved three resolutions put before the voting body.  

Click on the titles below to read the resolutions: 

Resolution on Retiree Activists

Resolution on Planning Periods 

Resolution in Support of Local Control

Congratulations to the following AFT locals and members who were presented with awards during the 2022 AFT-WV Convention: 

Membership Growth Awards 
 
Net Re Growth Awards:
2nd place-- Nicholas County Federation of Teachers 

Percentage  Re Growth Awards:
2nd place-- AFT- McDowell   

In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest New York Times  column, she describes what it is exactly that unions do. Though unions are the most popular they have been in decades, anti-union sentiment still thrives in red states and across the nation. “Several years ago, The Atlantic ran a story whose headline made even me, a labor leader, scratch my head: ‘Union Membership: Very Sexy,’” Weingarten writes in the column. “The gist was that higher wages, health benefits and job security—all associated with union membership—boost one’s chances of getting married. Belonging to a union doesn’t actually guarantee happily ever after, but it does help working people have a better life in the here and now.” Click through to read the full column.