Labor bosses at the two largest teachers unions in the country spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on trips to golf resorts, casinos, and luxury hotels as they criticized the Trump administration for placing financial strain on teachers, financial disclosures from 2025 show.
From Las Vegas to Miami, leaders at the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association enjoyed high-flying accommodations under ambiguous descriptions such as “professional development” and “staff education” last year. In some cases, such as the AFT’s jaunt to Las Vegas’s famous Mandalay Bay resort and casino, the unions didn’t even bother disclosing how they spent their worker-derived funds, simply documenting their spending as “non-itemized transactions.”
