Lee Saunders, Randi Weingarten and DNC
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Teachers union chief Randi Weingarten is facing backlash on social media for her "No Kings Day" protests speech as she departs the DNC after 23 years.
Democrats are constantly getting knocked down while trying to get back up, as intra-party struggles at the DNC plague the party ahead of key election years.
Generational shifts, ambiguous priorities, and the intensifying dangers of the Trump administration have pushed the organization into uncertain territory
Two powerful union heads, Randi Weingarten and Lee Saunders, leaving the Democratic Committee is another sign of the internal conflict plaguing the party as it tries to find a path
Randi Weingarten wrote DNC chair Ken Martin to decline an offer to be reappointed an at-large member of the DNC..
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Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers and Lee Saunders of AFSCME, declined offers to stay on. Weingarten cited disagreements with Martin.
The departure of two major union presidents from their posts at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is raising questions about lingering internal divisions as the party seeks to regroup. On