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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENews from AFT Michigan June 8, 2021 Contact: David Hecker, 313-204-6115, dhecker@aftmichigan.org Whitmer Continues to Lead the Way in Public Education Policy Educators [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from AFT Michigan May 27, 2021 Contact: David Hecker, 313-204-6115, dhecker@aftmichigan.org Whitmer Budget Has the Right Priorities for K-12 Schools Governor’s new K-12 [...]

Wednesday, May 19, 2021 Contact:             David Hecker, AFT Michigan President, (313) 204-6115, dhecker@aftmichigan.org [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENews from AFT Michigan January 27, 2021 Contact: David Hecker, dhecker@aftmichigan.org, 313-204-6115 AFT Michigan Remarks on 2021 State of the State MICHIGAN — AFT [...]

A joint statement from David Hecker, AFT-Michigan President; Don Wotruba, MASB Executive Director;Tina Kerr, MASA Executive Director; Ray Telman, Middle CitiesExecutive Director; Paula Herbart, [...]

December 28, 2020 MICHIGAN — AFT Michigan and the Michigan Education Association released the following joint statement after the Michigan Supreme Court reached a 3-3 deadlock on a case that [...]

News from the Detroit Federation of Paraprofessionals, AFT 2350 and the Detroit Association of Educational Office Employees, AFT 4168 September 1, 2020 Contact: Sam Inglot, 616-916-0574, [...]

As we move closer to the fall semester, community colleges and universities across the state have either announced their fall plans or are working on them, meaning the question of whether and how [...]

Last week, State Budget Director Chris Kolb presented Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s proposal for the state budget for the next fiscal year. In addition to her priority of fixing Michigan [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from AFT Michigan and the MEA September 16, 2019 Contact: David Hecker, dhecker@aftmichigan.org Doug Pratt, dpratt@mea.org MICHIGAN — As tens of thousands of UAW [...]