1441 AFT President Randi Weingarten + News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
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Since 2008, Randi Weingarten has served as the elected president of the AFT, a union of 1.8 million educators, health care professionals, and public-service workers. For ten years prior, she headed the United Federation of Teachers, the union representing educators in New York City's public schools, and before that taught social studies at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn, New York. She has degrees from the Cardozo School of Law and the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Stand up. |
| 0:02.2 | Hello, my friends. |
| 0:03.2 | Welcome to the Monday episode of Stand Up. |
| 0:06.4 | I have got a big deal guest joining me today. |
| 0:09.6 | The author of a brand new book, Just Out Why Fascists Fear Teachers, Public Education |
| 0:15.8 | and the Future of Democracy? |
| 0:18.1 | It's none other than the president of the American Federation of Teachers. |
| 0:21.6 | Randy Weingarten joins me today. She is as powerful, as fascinating, as convincing, and as |
| 0:29.4 | awesome as always. I love Randy. I've known her for a long time. I've interviewed her several |
| 0:34.4 | times. I've joined her on panels and been supportive, of course, |
| 0:39.6 | of teachers and public school teachers, particularly my whole life because my mom was a public |
| 0:43.9 | school teacher. Randy Weingarten and I today on her brand new book, which is real good. I'm not |
| 0:49.6 | just saying that. She's always great, but this book is very good. I learned a lot. It's |
| 0:55.4 | inspiring and it's kind of an instruction manual of sorts. I think you're going to love it. |
| 0:59.9 | And if you want to jump right to the conversation, if you want to get started with it, it begins |
| 1:04.7 | at about 26 minutes in today. But like every day's show, I've got your headlines and clips like nobody does it. And there is, |
| 1:14.5 | of course, a lot going on in the world. And it's Monday. So there's a lot from the weekend that I want to |
| 1:19.7 | share with you. So let's jump to it right now. And remember, I can't do it without your support. |
| 1:25.1 | This is an ad free show. I don't take ad dollars. I am only |
| 1:29.4 | supported by subscribers like you. And welcome to new subscribers as well as old subscribers. What's up? |
| 1:36.7 | Steve Barefoot. Haven't heard from you in a long time, but I did over the weekend and it made me |
| 1:41.1 | real, real happy. Welcome back to the show, to the fold, |
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