We are so proud to be part of the team advocating for this bill to become law alongside so many of our Massachusetts Library Staff Association chapters and members.

In MA, the Freedom to Read is LAW! 📚 Today, President Tang, Franklin Library Staff Association Chapter Chair Vicki Earls, NAFT Pres. Bob Collins, & fellow AFT MA members joined @massgovernor.bsky.social as she signed the Freedom to Read into law!

Patrick Roath is a voting rights advocate and a champion for working families, public education, & safe & welcoming communities for all—including our immigrant neighbors. Want to help us elect Patrick and labor champions o? Join our hybrid phone bank August 19! Signup at tinyurl.com/MOVE-819

Get in, everyone, we’re sending Patrick Roath to Congress!! Yesterday, @btu66.bsky.social & AFT MA were thrilled to cohost a canvass for Patrick Roath, our endorsed candidate for MA’s 8th Congressional District!

Created by Sen. @markey.senate.gov, the E-Rate program has provided over $76B—including over $1B for MA!—to help libraries & schools access the Internet. Now the FCC is threatening to scale back this important aid. Learn more & tell the FCC to protect E-Rate at www.shlb.org/save-our-e-rate.

Today, the PROTECT Act is law. 💙 President Tang and @btu66.bsky.social President Berg were proud to join legislative leaders and advocates today as @massgovernor.bsky.social Healey signed some of the nation’s strongest protections for immigrants into law.

On 7/24, AFT MA locals joined in solidarity with LUCE to hold a 24-hour vigil on the steps of the MA State House to honor those that have lost their lives to ICE violence. We asked educators, librarians, and organizers why they turned out to support the vigil and why they fight for immigrant rights.

We’re not packing away the sunscreen yet, but we *are* getting excited for our Back to School Town Hall! 🥳 Join us 8/26 @5:30pm to catch up on this year’s AFT National Convention, bringing on new members, and gearing up for a big fall of elections and empowerment. RSVP today at tinyurl.com/B2STH26

Today the PROTECT Act advanced out of Committee, and is expected to be on the Governor’s desk ready to be signed into law by the end of this week! Thank you to each of you who spoke up and advocated to help move a strong PROTECT Act forward!

131 AFT MA members converged on DC for this year’s @aft.org National Convention! Swipe to catch up on a great weekend of solidarity and strengthening our union! Read the full story at ma.aft.org/2026AFTConventionRecap

Did you move last year? Get married & change your name? Forget to return a city census? All of these can cause your voter registration to lapse. With one month left to register to vote in the MA primaries, we’re asking YOU to check your registration! Get started today at aft.turbovote.org @aft.org

Today, @btu66.bsky.social Pres. Erik Berg and Salem VP Karen Tucker & Para Chair Barbara McLellan joined Gov. Healey as she introduced a new supplemental budget appropriating $100 million Fair Share funds to help districts close funding gaps heading into the new school year.

🗣️Solidarity is our STRENGTH! The members of the @ctu1340.bsky.social & Salem Teachers Union bargaining and contract action teams gathered for a joint training! Together they built skills their locals will need to organize effective actions & win big. Amazing to see locals supporting each other! 😍💪

Educators stand with nurses! AFT MA & @btu66.bsky.social joined the Mass Nurses Assoc. picket line today to support MGB nurses & clinicians striking for fair contracts that protect patient care. An injury to one is an injury to all—that's why it matters that we show up for each other. ✊ @aft.org

🗣️ Patients over profits!! AFT Massachusetts stands in solidarity with striking Massachusetts Nurses Assoc. MGB nurses and clinicians—today and every day. ✊ Join AFT MA on a MNA strike line near you this week and let’s show our union siblings that we’ve got their backs. 💪 #StandWithNurses

⚽️ TOMORROW ⚽️ Join AFT MA & @btu66.bsky.social for a book giveaway and family-friendly World Cup watch party of the Switzerland vs. Colombia game! 🇨🇴🇨🇭 RSVP to join us at tinyurl.com/BostonReads772026

Bargaining Teams! Join us & @btu66.bsky.social for a collective bargaining intensive with @aft.org's Union Leadership Institute! We’ll dig in on every step of the bargaining process so you’re fully prepared to win big for members. Check out the full agenda & sign up at tinyurl.com/SOI2026

Our first round of 2026 State House endorsements are here! We're proud to endorse candidates who have proven that they will be the partners and champions we need at the State House. 💪 Learn more at ma.aft.org/endorsements-2026!

Building Reps! SOI is our last chance to get trained up on hard skills like having one-to-one conversations, fostering union engagement, and enforcing the contract before summer break. Will you join us and @btu66.bsky.social? Check out the full roster of trainings & sign up at tinyurl.com/SOI2026

🚨 MA Supreme Judicial Court bars income tax ballot question that would have devastated state budget, public schools, and social services from November ballot. Learn more about the suit at ma.aft.org/press/SJC-removes-ballot-question.

With Gov. Healey’s signature, the Fair Share Supplemental Budget is law! Today’s supp budget will provide critical, mid-year funds for public schools & transit, as well as funding contracts for our members at UMass Dartmouth—just as the voters intended when they passed the Fair Share Amendment.

☀️ It’s almost SUMMER (Organizing Institute) time!! Join AFT MA and @btu66.bsky.social for our annual deep organizing space, where you’ll build the skills we all need to win for our members, students, and families in the classroom and beyond. RSVP today to join us at tinyurl.com/SOI2026

Today, President @jessjtang.bsky.social joined 32 other union leaders from across the nation to call on our governors to reject the proposed federal private school voucher program. Massachusetts MUST hold the line. Read more at ma.aft.org/press/national-voucher-letter

To our queer students and to young people everywhere: we see you and we love you. You will ALWAYS be welcome in our classrooms, libraries, and hospitals. And we will never stop fighting for you. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @btu66.bsky.social

THANK YOU to everyone who joined us to march in this year’s Boston’s pride parade w/ AFT MA & @btu66.bsky.social—especially our union kids contingent!—& everyone who cheered for educators, paras, librarians, & union members across the route! Today was an act of joy, love, protest, and resistance.

Toi Derricotte told us, “JOY is an act of resistance.” Nowhere is this more true than Boston Pride for the People. 💙 @btu66.bsky.social @ayannapressley.bsky.social

ICYMI, we joined Senate President Karen Spilka and Senate leadership today as they announced that Retirement Plus will be brought to the floor for a vote TOMORROW!! As Sen. Brownsberger pointed out, this important step is the result of deep collaboration and grassroots advocacy!

“We greatly appreciate the leadership of the Senate President & our allies in the Senate for their work in support of educators across MA & their commitment to passing this legislation to give our longest-serving teachers the equitable & secure retirement they deserve," -@jessjtang.bsky.social.

“From teachers on maternity leave left out, to teachers dropped from the program with no notification, to teachers whose notices were sent to old addresses, the roll-out of Retirement Plus continues to impact the lives of educators across the state nearly 25 years later,” Pres. Tang told reporters.

🗣️ R+ Senate vote tomorrow!! Today Pres. @jessjtang.bsky.social & Sec.-Treasurer Duncan, @btu66.bsky.social Pres. Berg & VP Serena, and R+ Cmte Chair Ted Chambers joined Senate Pres. Spilka and members of MA Senate leadership as they announced that the Senate will vote on Retirement Plus TOMORROW!