Legislative Update

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At the behest of the DeVos family, the Republican leadership of the Michigan Legislature is mounting an attack on educator pensions and AFT Michigan is fighting hard to protect the ability of [...]

State Legislators are considering using the Lame Duck session as an opportunity to rob public employees of their retirement benefits.  Led by anti-working-families billionaires including Dick [...]

Retirees! Join fellow pro-pension advocates for Nov. 29 Pension Action Day Tuesday, Nov. 29 is CSR-MI Pension Action Day in Lansing and it’s the chance to tell your legislators that pensions are [...]

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MICHIGAN — AFT Michigan released the following statement following Governor Rick Snyder’s announcement that he intends to appeal, without the help of the Attorney General, the Court of Appeals [...]

The long-awaited study of education funding in Michigan was released today, and puts in black and white what we’ve known in our classrooms for years: school funding in Michigan is woefully [...]

AFT Michigan and MEA deliver more than 33,000 petition signatures to Snyder and Schuette, calling on them to #StopTheAppeals of 3 percent lawsuit decisions LANSING — The American Federation of [...]

David Hecker has an op-ed in the Detroit News on the Detroit schools legislation talking about how, “Last week, we were reminded that the people who actually make the choices about our [...]

Republican Legislature’s DPS Plan Ignores Detroit Voices and Picks Politics Over Kids For the past year, the future of Detroit Public Schools has been in doubt. With a massive debt run up [...]