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Organized labor hits the ground in Ukraine - POLITICO
Organized labor hits the ground in Ukraine
04/04/2022 10:00 AM EDT
With help from Nick Niedzwiadek and Neelam Bohra
QUICK FIX
U.S. UNIONS TURN THEIR FOCUS EAST: American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten touched down at Poland’s border with Ukraine on Sunday as the first U.S. union official to visit the conflict-torn region.
Weingarten, who coordinated the trip with Polish teachers union ZNP, plans to visit schools and meet with teachers in Warsaw and Medyka. AFT has raised $100,000 for ZNP, the Ukrainian teachers union VPONU, and other union-allied groups in the area; Weingarten will distribute the funds, along with books and other educational materials, today.
The purpose of this week’s trip is to show solidarity, but also “to lift up that humanitarian and the education work that’s being done, teacher to teacher, union to union and across the Ukrainian-Polish border,” Weingarten told your host. She hopes her visit can also serve as “a fact-finding mission to help understand how we continue to support and assist kids and teachers and communities whose lives have been completely torn apart.”
Weingarten will brief the Biden administration, as well as AFL-CIO and others, when she returns.
Zooming out: The visit is just one example of how organized labor in the U.S. is flexing its muscle abroad to help Ukranians and those who have come to their aid.
“Most people don’t know that [organized labor is] one of the largest global infrastructures...
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