What is Texas AFT?
Texas AFT is a statewide organization that exists to serve its members and local unions, also called “local units” or “affiliates.” Texas AFT currently has 58,000 members and growing. When you join a local union—for example, the Houston Federation of Teachers in Houston ISD, or Amarillo AFT for Amarillo ISD—you are automatically a member in the statewide organization of Texas AFT and our national organization, the American Federation of Teachers, based in Washington, DC. Likewise, when you join the “Professional Educators Group” (PEG) for districts not covered by one of the 30 local unions, you also become part of the Texas AFT and AFT family. Members of local unions elect a president and a secretary-treasurer at state conventions in odd-numbered years, and the state organization is governed by an executive board made up of locally elected presidents. These 30 local presidents provide ongoing policy direction to Texas AFT officers between biennial conventions. Texas AFT strives to prov
