In Pa. Primary, AFT Hits the Streets
Union Goes All Out for Clinton; NEA Remains on Fence in Fierce Democratic Contest.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Every day, 14 retired teachers and other school employees arrive at the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers’ headquarters and go to work for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
For a $600-a-week stipend plus parking and meals, the retirees do the nuts and bolts of campaign work: call union members, stuff envelopes, and deliver pamphlets to schools throughout the city.
The retirees—working with volunteers and union staff members from as far away as Alaska—are working to inform teachers’ union members why the American Federation of Teachers favors the New York senator for the Democratic presidential nomination over Sen....
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