Happy New Year everyone. Here’s to a 2025 full of solidarity and growing unions across our state!
Winter Union Building Institute (UBI)
February 3-6, all sessions are at 5 PM over Zoom
Are you a workplace leader looking to develop your union leadership skills? Wondering where to start when it comes to being a building representative, steward, or union member? Workplace leaders and members are invited to sign up for various virtual sessions designed to support members develop skills and build on existing knowledge and skills around core union capacities throughout the week of February 3rd. Sessions are focused on core areas of AFT Michigan’s Power Wheel and include skills you can take back to your workplace the next day around organizing, communicating, and representing your colleagues!
Register today at aftmichigan.org/union-building-events.
Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System Board
We’re proud to announce that Gov. Whitmer has appointed longtime DFT 231 leader Glenda Booker to the MPSERS board. Booker is an English and language arts teacher at John R. King Academic and Performing Arts Academy. Booker represents Region 1 on the Executive Board of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, where she currently serves as vice president, and she is also a GED instructor at Wayne County Community College District. Booker holds a Bachelor of Arts in early childhood education with an emphasis in child development from Mercy College of Detroit and a Master of Arts in curriculum and instruction from the University of Detroit Mercy.
