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UTF Ratifies Contract with Significant Gains 88% of UTF membership at Central Michigan University voted yes on a new contract this past week. This contract includes significant gains including [...]

LEO-GLAM Celebrates New Contact Congratulations to the LEO-GLAM bargaining unit of  the University of Michigan Lecturers’ Union (LEO – AFT MI Local 6244), which overwhelmingly voted to [...]

Justice Leaders Collaborative Social Justice Primer – May 28 at 5:30 PM Join us on May 28, from 5:30-7:30pm, for JLC’s Social Justice Primer! AFT Michigan has been working with the [...]

AFT Michigan Higher Education Lobby Day AFT Michigan leaders came together for our lobby day in Lansing last Wednesday to meet with legislators and ask that our state government adequately fund [...]

UM Staff Rally & March – May 13, 12-1pm at Ingalls Mall Last month, a member of University Staff United (USU), AFT Local 284, was fired from her job at UM-Ann Arbor for exercising her [...]

PreK-12 Budget Lobby Day Report Thanks to all the leaders who joined us in Lansing last Tuesday for our lobby day in partnership with the Michigan Education Justice Coalition. It’s crucial that [...]

This week, the union for tenure track faculty at the University of Michigan-Flint – the UM-Flint AFT-AAUP, Local 5671, AFL-CIO – ratified its first ever collective bargaining agreement, with 95 [...]

MEJC Lobby Day – April 29 The Michigan Education Justice Coalition (MEJC) will be hosting their annual Lobby Day on April 29, from 9am – 4pm with breakfast, lunch and snacks provided. [...]

AFT Michigan Unemployment Workshop – April 24 at 1pm  Join us for an hour to learn how to navigate our state’s unemployment system with a focus on higher education non-tenure [...]

In the face of ongoing attacks on higher education, AFT Michigan higher education locals are coming together with Michigan’s Higher Ed Labor United (Michigan HELU) to defend workers and students, [...]