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About AFT Higher Education

The AFT represents higher education faculty (including both full- and part-time), professional staff and graduate employees, in all sectors of higher education—public and private, two-year and four-year institutions of higher education. MORE

History of the AFT

Learn the history of the AFT, including the union's founding in Chicago in 1916, its affiliation with the AFL-CIO, its battles for workers and human rights and its continued work to uphold the proud traditions on which the union was created.

AFT Mission Statement

The American Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our communities. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our members do.

About the AFT

Learn more about the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which was founded in 1916 to represent the economic, social and professional interests of classroom teachers and is an affiliated international union of the AFL-CIO.

The Association of Adjunct Faculty of Macomb Community College Statement of Mission and Purpose

As the first all adjunct faculty community college union in the state of Michigan, the Association of Adjunct Faculty of Macomb Community College exists and persists for the very same reasons upon which it was founded.

[1] To end the sense of isolation and disenfranchisement many adjuncts experience by creating a deeper sense of community and support.

[2] To create a more fair and harmonious working environment, not only between administration and adjuncts, but among adjuncts themselves.

[3] To fulfill the promise of mutual respect and the recognition of the invaluable service adjuncts provide to higher education.

[4] To erase the stigma of “casual and temporary labor” often associated with adjunct instructors while eventually achieving the parity and equity we deserve.

[5] To enforce a fair contract, openly and mutually bargained, duly and democratically ratified by its members for the betterment of its members.