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For those of you in education, good luck wrapping things up and heading into what is hopefully a restful and recharging break this week. For those of you in healthcare or public services, I hope [...]

December 11, 2023 UMMAP Welcomes Two More Units of Healthcare Professionals to the Union On Thursday, December 2, the nearly 1500 members of the United Michigan Medicine Allied Professionals [...]

2023 Bargaining Conference  AFT Michigan leaders came together this past Saturday for a day of skill-building and discussion around contract negotiations.  PreK-12 teacher locals [...]

Lansing Legislative Session Wrap-Up The Legislature has adjourned until January, which means all of our amazing accomplishments from this session will go into effect in February 2024. Reviewing [...]

Hamtramck Teachers Frustrated by Canceled School Board Meetings On Wednesday, November 8, Hamtramck Teachers rallied outside of the Hamtramck Administrative building against the School Board [...]

AFT Michigan Healthcare Issues Conference All three of our healthcare locals–the Alliance of Resident Physicians, United Michigan Medicine Allied Professionals, and United Physician [...]

PreK-12 Members Pushing for Policy Changes Teacher and support staff leaders gathered on Saturday for our PreK-12 Issues Conference. We first joined U-M’s Center for Labor and Community [...]

AFT Human Rights Conference Report–Two Community Partnership Grants Coming to Michigan I had a great time at the AFT Human Rights Conference in Houston last Thursday through Sunday. Also [...]

AFT Michigan Higher Education Issues Conference On Saturday morning with higher education local leaders from most of the institutions where we represent members–Eastern, Ferris State, Henry [...]

Supporting UAW Workers It was great to be part of the national AFT Day of Action in support of our UAW siblings last Thursday – social media was full of great photos from picket lines [...]