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July 13, 2020 UM Physician Assistants Organize with AFT Michigan! AFT Michigan’s newest local is  a union of Physician Assistants (PAs) at the University of Michigan! The union—United [...]

July 6, 2020 Safe Schools Roadmap Released last week, Governor Whitmer’s MI Safe Schools Roadmap provides a framework to help districts approach the challenge of maximizing [...]

June 24, 2020 AFT Michigan Convention Report Our first (and hopefully only) virtual Convention officially adjourned Monday afternoon after receiving the report of the Nominations & Elections [...]

June 15, 2020 Dear Sisters and Brothers: It goes without saying that it should not take the murders of African-Americans on video to bring it about, but there does appear to be some progress in [...]

June 8, 2020 Dear Sisters and Brothers Will we finally have real change in policing?  Will more people understand how deeply racism is ingrained in our society?  Will these issues [...]

May 18, 2020 76th AFT Michigan Convention Thank you to everyone who was part of our 76th Convention on Saturday. While I of course missed getting to see people in person, we had a great turnout, [...]

May 11, 2020 Michigan Students And Educators United In Fight Against Coronavirus, Despite Intimidation I was honored to co-author a column with Mia Moberly, State director of March For Our Lives [...]

April 27, 2020 Legal Victory for Detroit’s Students Last week, the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Detroit students have a fundamental right to access to literacy and that “without [...]

April 20, 2020 I want to thank you again for all you are doing in these most difficult times.  I have heard comments from both allies and some with whom we sometimes disagree praising the [...]

April 6, 2020 AFT Tuesday Telephone Town Halls We are living in a scary, stressful and uncertain time. The coronavirus pandemic is both a health and an economic emergency. Some of our members [...]