Educators in Florida are facing a two-prong attack. Closer to home, the Florida legislature is again coming at us with union busting bills, while nationally we have the current administration’s unconstitutional efforts to dismantle the Department of Education to contend with. But don’t lose hope. Fight back! Let them know we stand united in defense of education, students, and the right to a collective voice to negotiate better wages, benefits, and working conditions.
On the Florida front
It is time to tell your legislators once and for all to leave educators, students and unions alone. Year after year bills are filed and often pass that defy your constituents and the intent of the Florida constitution which has enshrined the right to collectively bargain. Year after year teachers have shown that we will fight for our voice as workers that teach for the public good.
- Email the Senate and House committees to Vote NO on SB 1328 & HB 1387 – select United Faculty of Florida as you local union
- Florida’s union busting regime – Labor Notes
On the national front
It’s time to tell Congress to do their constitutional duty as a coequal branch of government and to protect the federal agencies they created from the callous, chaotic, incompetent cuts like those aimed at dismantling the Department of Education. Read UFF’s Press Release Condemning Executive Order Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, then take action:
- Stop the Destruction of the Department of Education – NEA
- Call Congress to Stop the Destruction of the Department of Education – NEA
- Tell Congress no cuts to Education – AFT
More allies and ways to get involved
- FUSA’s Issues & Actions tools
- All Hands on Deck – 2025 FL Legislative Session – FL AFL-CIO
- Stay tuned for more information on A Day of Action for Higher Ed (April 17)
- HELU – Higher Education Labor United
- “Trump Can’t Actually Dismantle the Department of Education, but His Policies Still Threaten Us All.” – AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom

