AFT Connecticut

Our density is our strength! Join fellow members in rejecting the special interests trying to chip away at our gains and share your selfie today: aftct.org/the-union-di... #UnionYES @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @psrp-aft.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org

We're highlighting our dedicated At-Large VPs who stand alongside our Divisional leaders! This ride-or-die network keeps our union moving forward across every sector. #StrengthInUnity @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @psrp-aft.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org

📣 Calling educators and school staff! Have a great idea, strategy or practice to share? Submit a proposal for the 2027 Share My Lesson Virtual Conference. 💻📚✨ 📅 Deadline: Dec. 1, 2026 https://sharemylesson.com/2027-share-my-lesson-virtual-conference-request-proposals

Now our members are getting out the vote across the country to elect leaders who will fight affordable gas, groceries, healthcare, and housing, strong public schools where vouchers don't take support away from students, and a pathway to a better life for all. aftvotes.org/midterms2026

View our AI resources here www.aft.org/highered/our...

The civil rights and labor movements have long worked together to secure a better future for workers. At our 2027 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference, we’re united by that dream, and ready to organize and fight for it. Join us! https://themlkconference.org/

Let's get this party started. #DefendHigherEd Starter Pack:

Protect your whole family with the latest IDProtection Plus Family Plans features by Aura. Get flexible family sharing, personalized safety tips, and tools to help remove personal info from websites and reduce Google Search exposure. Explore plans: https://unionplus.click/5o2

America’s unions are on GO! Like the @dropkickmurphys.com, working people across the country are fired up, talking with our co-workers, neighbors, friends and union family so we can send pro-worker candidates to Congress and create an economy and country that works for all of us. ✊

There are so many independent coffee places that are so much better than Starbucks…there is no reason to drink that crap!!! #BoycottStarbucks

Dr. Michael Schultz—licensed psychologist, family therapist, systems consultant & TU Senior Advisor—is our October guest! We’ll discuss how systems of care support & empower educators through prevention, crisis intervention & in the aftermath of gun violence. Register here: tinyurl.com/TUOct26 ☮️📖📚

Key education stakeholders sent a letter to Governor Lamont asking to meet and discuss potential risks for CT's public schools and students posed by the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit. @aftct.bsky.social

Yale faculty sent President McInnis more than 75 postcards about academic freedom. Here are a few. One calls it “the heart of what makes our job possible”; another describes the word “women” being flagged in gender-history work. Both call for binding protections this term.

Every semester, I tell my students that I have opted their papers out of the AI-scraping tool to fight plagiarism and AI use because they own their writing. And yes, it’s messed up that I can click this well-hidden checkbox on the LMS and they can’t. Classrooms shouldn’t mean surrendering consent.

As important as it ever was. Follow the money, reveal the allocations, change the money. $$$$$$$$$$$$$ @academemagazine.bsky.social @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social

In New Haven, @aftct.bsky.social members are creating engaging learning spaces & sharing know-your-rights resources to help immigrant students & families feel informed, supported & welcome. #PublicSchoolProud 📚 www.facebook.com/nhft933/post...

Important voting information for folks in Connecticut

Spread the word about Teachers Unify! We get it and you don’t have to walk this alone. Join us: www.teachersunify.org/joinus Books, not bullets. ☮️📚📖

We’ve looked at rank & file members, local chapters & state federations… now let’s talk about union structure at the national level. #Union101 #TheMoreYouKnow 🌠 @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @psrp-aft.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org

Great point from Hartford Federation of Teachers President Corey Moses. We should be investing in public education so every student has the opportunity to learn. @AFTCT.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/aftc...

“Where is the money going to come from? They’re going to take it away from #PublicEd." #ProtectOurKids @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @neatoday.bsky.social @ceateachers.bsky.social

“Building trust with employees would require two-sided communication and listening.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @csuaaup.bsky.social @kariswanson.bsky.social

"...public schools are open to all children regardless of immigration status. The same should go for Tweed.” #ICEOut @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @unitehere.org @leslieblatteau.bsky.social

Achieving milestones in bargaining; last night school officials approved a new #union contract for #WindhamUnited ed personnel that will #RaiseTheWage, boost stipends + deliver #RetirementSecurity benefit match. #UnionYES @aft.org @psrp-aft.bsky.social @aflcio.org @ctaflcio.bsky.social

“Instead of exploiting a student that our system failed, the secretary should join us in advocating for the resources needed to ensure every student can grow, achieve and prosper throughout their lives.” #FundOurFutureCT @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @hft1018.bsky.social

Big gains for those who educate the youngest; last night our #EarlyEd professionals’ 3-yr #union contract to #RaiseTheWage, incentivize #Htfd residency & teaching in neighborhood schools approved by BOE. #UnionYES @aft.org @psrp-aft.bsky.social @aflcio.org @ctaflcio.bsky.social @hft1018.bsky.social

“Instead of taking the lead in assuring safe, responsible use of genAI, UConn’s top administrators are allowing students, faculty and staff to be exploited as customers and products.” Opinion piece by @uconnaaup.bsky.social executive committee (which includes me): dailycampus.com/2026/10/20/w...

"Let’s help @uconn.bsky.social’s students to have a say in #AI, and let’s mobilize as a community to protect them from exploitation." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @uconnaaup.bsky.social

Concrete skills for providing #WhatKidsNeed; join us for the next in this 5-part series of #EduPD sessions rooted in proven trauma-informed practices: aftct.org/event/care-f... #StrengthInUnity @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social

We had to sue McMahon once to force her to follow the law and respect borrowers’ rights to lower student loan payments and this reorganization won’t solve the issue—it will only make things worse. www.aft.org/press-releas...

Every single child, teacher & staff member should be safe at school. We stand in solidarity with the entire school community of Bend, OR during this shattering time & we remain unwavering in our commitment to demanding real safety & action. We’re proud to stand alongside @aft.org and OSEA. ☮️💔📚📖

"Affordable health insurance helps schools recruit and retain employees, but must be accompanied by competitive wages." #FundOurFutureCT @aft.org @psrp-aft.bsky.social

“We were also able to secure salary increases for all three unions.” #UnionYES @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social

Important words from two educators about the role AI can play in school shootings. ctmirror.org/2026/10/13/o...

“I and many other faculty members expect that those who were derelict in their responsibilities will be held accountable.” #DefendHigherEd @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @csuaaup.bsky.social @kariswanson.bsky.social

“You replay your day when you go home and put your head on the pillow and worry that you missed 10 things, or that you can’t provide the time to sit with a patient instead of running in and running out.” #SafePatientLimits @aft.org @afthealthcare.bsky.social @afscme.bsky.social

Good things come in 3’s! Yesterday members of our 3rd #LMWorkersUnited affiliate ratified their new 3-yr #union contract w/ YNHHS which will #RaisetheWage & deliver ratification bonuses. #UnionYES @aft.org @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aflcio.org @ctaflcio.bsky.social

The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit asks states to give up control for a voucher program that will mostly benefit the wealthy few. See the link in the comments below to read CEA Vice President Joslyn DeLancey's op-ed in today's @ctmirror.org.

"That #HigherEd came to value voices and worldviews beyond those of elite, white males wasn’t “caused by a bunch of out-of-control, rampaging, wackadoodle professors. It’s the product of really good arguments.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @isaackamola.bsky.social

2 #LMWorkersUnited affiliates teamed up to amplify their power; yesterday members ratified a 4-year #union contract w/YNHHS that will #RaisetheWage, maintain health benefits & stop mandation for #TechProfessionals. #UnionYES @aft.org @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aflcio.org @ctaflcio.bsky.social

In a new @ctmirror.org op-ed, @repjahanahayes.bsky.social & her constituent, our Executive Director @abbeyclements.bsky.social, break down why Big Tech & Congress must take immediate action to stop AI chatbots from facilitating gun violence. “…they are failing us.” #BooksNotBullets #ProtectKids

"#AI chatbots are simply the newest and most dangerous front in the same fight, and Congress cannot afford to look away." #ProtectOurKids @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @teachersunify.bsky.social @repjahanahayes.bsky.social @abbeyclements.bsky.social

Follow the money, demand transparency, and demand a tax system that requires everyone to pay their fair share. @rooseveltinstitute.org @rooseveltforward.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social

Now that school is back in session, #union members can make the most of continuing their own education. Gain access to online #EduPD courses at a big discount with #VESI: www.virtualeduc.com/email-marketing/subscription/Fall_26/aftct.html #IAmAFT #StrengthInUnity @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social

This episode features Jose Vilson, an educator in NYC & the Executive Director of EduColor. He talks about what led him to education & creating EduColor, how he came to work with @teachersunify.bsky.social and why he is committed to making change in the GVP space. teachersunify.transistor.fm/65

"Sen. Marx was by every account tenacious in her advocacy, and the result was consistently fair contracts, whose gains often benefited non-union staff as well." #AFTVotes @aft.org @afthealthcare.bsky.social

Join us in taking the pledge! By voting on the @ctwfp.bsky.social ballot line we can stand up against corporate interests & elect leaders who will work to make CT affordable for everyone: wfpus.org/voterowC #AFTVotes @aft.org @aaup.org @workingfamilies.org

Jennifer is a great podcaster: reads and listens carefully, and puts together an accessible show and likes to grab a few gems. "The emotional power is in the culture," did I say that? @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Yale’s protest tradition is back. In The Nation (@thenation.com), Zachary Clifton connects the Lipstick sculpture’s anti-war history to today’s movement for shared governance, academic freedom, and an end to Yale’s negotiations with Trump. bit.ly/YaleProtestTradition 🧵 1/5

Yale had made one offer, seen it rejected, and made another, “essentially bargaining against itself.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaupyale.org @akapczynski.bsky.social