The first week in March was fairly typical for Randi Weingarten ’80, president of the 1.75 million-member American Federation of Teachers. She attended meetings, including a call with the White House before President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. She visited with teachers to discuss several innovative programs at a local school district. She met with a chapter of the American Association of University Professors. She gave a rousing speech, "Unions, Labor, and Freedom of Expression," to college students.

Unlike a typical week, Weingarten did all these things based out of a room at the Statler Hotel on the Cornell campus.

Weingarten, the ILR School’s 2024 Alice B. Grant Labor Leader in Residence, also taught a week-long course in the ILR School on the topic of how the levers of education, collective bargaining and political action can be used to address the problems facing working people and communities.

Read the full story on the ILR website.
Julie Greco is a senior communications specialist at the ILR School.