Thank you for visiting the website of Professional & Administrative Association/AFT-MI local 4467 at Wayne County Community College District.  Our local has been in existence since XXXX at the college.  Our union represents full-time and part-time members.  From its inception our mission has been to protect the rights of our members, negotiate and bargain with the employer for fair wages and benefits, and works jointly with all stakeholders at Wayne County Community College District while providing quality services and programs for the students.  We encourage our members to actively participate in every learning opportunity for the advancement of our union and we strive to prepare those who will follow in our footsteps.

The AFT continued its support of the Special Olympics program with an event in Utah to send off the U.S. athletes to the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Idaho. The AFT and its members have long been involved with the Special Olympics, and, for two years now, the national union has supported the U.S. Special Olympians by helping fund transportation costs for the athletes to attend the games and for their transportation during the games. This year's send-off event on Feb. 5 in Salt Lake City featured remarks by AFT Utah president Debbie White. "You should be proud of yourself for having the desire and the commitment to be part of Team USA. It takes great courage to travel so far and compete against athletes from all over the world," said White. The games, which were held Feb. 7-13, attracted more than 2,000 athletes from nearly 100 countries, as well as thousands of family members, coaches, volunteers and spectators. [Read more.]

The Albert Shanker Institute and Freedom House recently unveiled Democracy Web, a new site designed to fill a need in America's schools for educational material that not only describes the U.S. experience with democracy, but also compares it with that of every country in the world, including those where citizens lack a vote and a voice. "Democracy's survival depends upon our transmitting to each new generation the political vision of liberty and equality that unites us as Americans," says AFT president Randi Weingarten, who also is president of the Shanker Institute. Democracy Web is composed of two sections: an interactive, global Map of Freedom, and an online study guide designed to assist secondary school and college-level educators as they prepare lesson plans. [Read more.]

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It is hard to believe but Thursday, January 22 marked the First-year Anniversary!!! for the election of CFT/AFT as our union representative with Northcoast Children's Services.  Our NECW Negotiations Team (Jennifer Turley, Julie Oakes, Beverly Hanns, Erica Dones and Terri Eleverum, CFT Field Representative) continues to meet with NCS representatives to reach a contract settlement. Read more for updates...

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