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After Martin reshuffled top committee placements, Weingarten and Saunders were not nominated to the powerful rules and bylaws committee. Both were offered at-large positions but declined them.
Two powerful national union honchos — including teachers boss Randi Weingarten — are parting ways with the Democratic National Committee over a beef with Chairman Ken Martin about the party ...
Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), announced in a June 5 letter to DNC Chair Ken Martin that she would not seek renewal as an at-large member of the party ...
Other Democrats cited what they described as Martin’s ham-handed approach to the DNC’s influential rules and bylaws committee, which is charged with setting the 2028 presidential primary calendar.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten recently resigned with great fanfare from the Democratic National Committee, part of a public rift with DNC Chair Ken Martin. Democratic ...
Soon after, prominent union leaders Randi Weingarten, who heads the American Federation of Teachers, and Lee Saunders, head of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ...
(CNN) — Two union leaders and longtime Democratic National Committee members have resigned from the national party, marking the latest internal dispute of chairman Ken Martin’s tenure. The departures ...
Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), announced in a June 5 letter to DNC Chair Ken Martin that she would not seek renewal as an at-large member of the party ...
By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Two union leaders and longtime Democratic National Committee members have resigned from the national party, marking the latest internal dispute of chairman Ken Martin ...
By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Two union leaders and longtime Democratic National Committee members have resigned from the national party, marking the latest internal dispute of chairman Ken Martin ...
Both Weingarten and Saunders had endorsed Martin’s top opponent for the DNC chairmanship, former Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler. After Martin reshuffled top committee placements ...