League of Extraordinary Educators

Our members are doing amazing things across the state, both at work and in their communities and we want to share their stories! Please fill out the form below to nominate a colleague or friend [...]

Over the past decade, unions have been under attack in state legislatures across the country.  At the same time, there have been dramatic cuts in essential services, including both K-12 and [...]

Walmart workers are taking on the wealthiest family in the country. Walmart is the largest private employer in the world and it’s a perfect picture of everything that’s wrong with our unequal [...]

On October 24, AFT members from across the state gathered at EMU to build our organizing skills, learn from each other, and support the community engagement work of our Washtenaw County locals. [...]

By Bruce Ewen. AFT Local 2000 member and Economics Professor and member League of Extraordinary Educators We are in a time of renewed political action in response to a corporate controlled [...]

by Bruce Ewen, AFT Local 2000 Member, Economics Professor and League of Extraordinary Educator member Every Sunday from 1 – 3 p.m. for the last few weeks, enthusiastic volunteers from Amnesty [...]

Fourteen months ago the League of Extraordinary Educators was voted into existence at the AFT MI Bi-annual convention.  The idea for the League is to build cross union solidarity in the state and [...]

After voting to become a union over a month ago, a successful Twitter strategy leads to Salon finally recognizing the union! Check out: #SalonUnion Tweets: #Hashtags, as they are called, are a [...]

Join with our brothers and sisters of the Michigan Nurses Association for their celebration of the 50th anniversary of Medicare, and call for national single-payer health care for all. The event [...]

Not so thrilled the ActionNetwork for the page goes away after the event…  kinda inconvenient! New post will be up soon and I will link to it from here.