AFT Connecticut represents thousands working in the state’s executive and judicial branches, as well as the career and technical education system, colleges and universities, in addition to several local municipalities. Our federation is also part of the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC), which serves to unite the major unions representing over 40,000 full and part-time Connecticut state workers.
Timely updates and relevant resources for members of SEBAC-affiliated locals are available at the coalition’s website, linked above.
Click here for SEBAC v. Rowland lawsuit settlement information from the firm representing the coalition (Nov., 2022).
State workers whose rights to collective bargaining have been historically restricted under the law are also a part of our labor family. Since the 2017 affiliation with the Association of Managerial Employees in the Connecticut State Service (AMECSS), hundreds have joined together for a stronger voice on the job.
Click here to send email requesting more information about our Managerial + Exempt (M+E) Employees (or access their website at the Locals section, linked above).
Public Employees News
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Resisting Brutal Budgeting and Crippling Cuts
Patients and students – as well as the providers and instructors they depend on – are suffering the consequences of the White House’s painful funding reductions and shameful political patronage. In a recently published op-ed, the executive committee of our AFT Connecticut-affiliated UCHC-AAUP (in collage, above) urged state lawmakers to shield residents from the escalating…
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Leaning Into Organizing as Resistance
“The professors are the enemy” may have seemed like little more than a vulgar political slur, but in 2025, it underpins a destructive policy agenda. The hostile and threatening climate was top of mind for the hundreds of faculty and staff at our national union’s annual higher education conference. Leaders and activists from Connecticut traveled…
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Tapping the “Resources to Take the Federal Government On”
The White House has taken aim at higher education, withholding federal funding from institutions that won’t bend to its political pressure tactics. At the same time, the Trump Administration is sabotaging student debt relief, denying access to tools aimed at college access and affordability for those who might benefit most. Members of AFT Connecticut-affiliated unions…
