IFPTE Mourns Victims of the Robb Elementary School Shooting – Joins AFL-CIO in Calling for Senate action
Following the tragic shooting this week at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 4th grade students and two teachers were killed, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler released a statement saying that, “America’s labor movement is absolutely devastated by the loss of 19 children and two teachers who were shot and killed in their classrooms yesterday afternoon at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.”
IFPTE President Matthew Biggs, echoed president Shuler’s sentiment, saying that,
“Tragically and inexplicably, the Uvalde school murders this week are all too reminiscent of the killings of innocent children and their teachers nearly ten years ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School, including IFPTE member Anne Marie Murphy and her first grade students. Students should be able to go to school and learn without fear, and teachers should be able to go to work in a safe workplace, but that is no longer the case in our nation’s schools, and even in our supermarkets. IFPTE joins the AFL-CIO in urging lawmakers to set aside politics for once and take common sense action to end this senseless violence.”