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2024-2025 Calendar Date Event Location & Time September 2, 2024 Labor Day March Detroit, MI September 7, 2024 Professional Development Workshop: Archetypes Supporting/Developing Teacher [...]

AFT Michigan is Hiring! AFT Michigan is seeking an experienced and energized Organizer to join our dynamic statewide union of educators and healthcare workers. Our team of staff works with [...]

EMUFT Launches Community Outreach Campaign EMUFT members and Edna the EMU began a series of community tabling events this past Saturday starting at the Ypsilanti Farmers Market in Depot [...]

Governor Signs Education Budgets It was an honor to be in attendance last Thursday when Governor Whitmer signed next year’s budget. As you know, this budget: Combined with the restoration of many [...]

It’s an honor to be writing to you as AFT Michigan President. As many of you know, I’ve spent my career as an activist within the AFT, since I started as a second-grade teacher at John Lynch [...]

Thank You On June 30, I will be stepping down as President of AFT Michigan. That day will mark 22 years as head of the state federation. Thank you and your predecessors for this amazing [...]

House Dems Vote to Restore Educator Rights; Call on the Senate to Do the Same! Yesterday, all 56 Democratic State Representatives voted to restore a number of public employee labor rights taken [...]

Restoring Our Rights-June 15 Lobby Day To date, not one public sector labor bill has passed the House and Senate.  While we are hopeful some will pass the House this week, we need to get [...]

Pride Month! Strong unions offer strong protections to LGBTQ+ workers. We celebrate the contributions of queer workers to our labor movement. In our own state federation, the growth of our Queer [...]