Legislative Update: October 9
Senate Committee to Consider Allowing People to Carry Concealed Weapons on School Property Senate Bill 442, sponsored by Sen. Mike Green (R-Mayville), would prohibit the open carry of firearms in [...]
Legislative Update: September 18, 2015
Legislature Returns After Summer Recess Although the Michigan Legislature had planned to work through the summer to find a solution to the road funding issue, those plans went largely unfulfilled [...]
EMUFT Takes Action!
Unlike their tenured and tenure-track counterparts, part-time lecturers at Eastern Michigan University did not receive their paychecks on September 15. The 600 part-time lecturers teach 40 [...]
President Hecker and MEA President Cook Present Ideas to Improve Education
American Federation of Teachers Michigan President David Hecker, along with Steven Cook, president of the Michigan Education Association, appeared before the State Board of Education in Lansing [...]
AFT Michigan LEAD Launch!
About 20 locals sent teams of leaders to the kick off event for the AFT Michigan Leadership Education and Development program! Over the two day weekend, members participated in activities meant [...]
Labor Day 2015
We’re excited for the 2015 Labor Day Parade in Detroit! AFT Michigan members are encouraged to attend. We will be staging on Michigan Avenue, between Rosa Parks and Vermont, beginning at [...]
State Superintendent Reduces High-Stakes Testing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from AFT Michigan August 20, 2015 AFT Michigan: Changes to Testing Requirements a Positive Step Changes allow for more classroom instruction; less time on testing [...]
Tell the Detroit Emergency Manager: “Enough is Enough.”
Budget Cuts. Failed Reforms. Detroit’s public schools have seen it all in recent years, and the results have been devastating. Throughout everything, however, Detroit’s teachers and support staff [...]
Member activism keeps hundreds of PSRPs on the job
“If you’re so smart, why don’t you come up with a plan?” That was the challenge thrown at members of the Jefferson County AFT in Alabama this spring after they questioned [...]
