Choose from the menu below to select local, state and national union-related news media clips by division. Opinion pieces, regardless of the relevant membership constituency, are listed separately.
Public Employees & Higher Education News
October 8, 2025
Fox 61 News (video): CT State Board of Education votes against funding Capital Prep Middletown Charter School
October 7, 2025
CBS News (video): Head of American Federation of Teachers responds to criticism of unions
October 3, 2025
People’s World: Massive New Haven rally for good jobs
October 1, 2025
CT Mirror: CT will keep programs hurt by federal shutdown afloat — for now
CT News Junkie: Coalition Calls On Lamont, Legislature To Use Excess Funds To Offset Federal Cuts
CT Insider: Federal government shutdown means CT could tap $6.3 billion reserve fund for resident, worker aid
September 30, 2025
Yale Daily News: One school’s bathrooms spotlight funding crisis for New Haven system
September 26, 2025
WTNH-TV Channel 8 News (with video): Rep. Rosa DeLauro, advocates sound alarm on growing youth mental health crisis
September 25, 2025
CT Insider: Concerns raised over private equity in Connecticut nursing homes by lawmaker
CT Mirror: More unions break talks with Lamont over past-due raises
The Hill (with audio): Ryan Walters steps down as Oklahoma schools chief, plans ‘to destroy’ teachers unions
CNBC: Disney investors say handling of Jimmy Kimmel suspension put politics over shareholders, demand records
Salon: Trump nominee deletes post calling for political violence
September 23, 2024
Nancy on Norwalk: Norwalk leaders blast superintendent contract extension as long-running school funding battles resurface
CT News Junkie: CT Education Officials Plan To Keep More Students In District For Special Education
Yale Daily News: New Haven teachers push Board of Education for contract improvements
September 19, 2025
NPR: Lawsuit aims to force Trump administration to stop delaying student loan forgiveness
September 18, 2025
The Courant: CT school boards become target of political contention over Charlie Kirk killing
NY1 – Spectrum News (with Video): American Federation of Teachers president discusses new book ‘Why Fascists Fear Teachers’
September 17, 2025
CT Insider: Here’s what the new federal budget proposals would mean for CT education, experts say
WGBH: Teachers’ union asks school districts not to punish teachers for Charlie Kirk comments
September 16, 2025
Yale Daily News: City public schools’ budget remains incomplete four weeks into school year
September 11, 2025
WTNH-TV Channel 8 News (with video): American Federation of Teachers president visits Truman School in New Haven
New Haven Independent: AFT Prez Plays Musical Chairs
September 10, 2025
Associated Press: Teachers sue over Trump’s immigration crackdown, saying students are staying home
Nancy on Norwalk: Barbara Smyth Celebrates Narrow Primary Victory at Packed Watch Party
Associated Press: Teachers sue over Trump’s immigration crackdown, saying students are staying home
The Hour: In close race, Barbara Smyth wins Democratic mayoral primary in Norwalk over Darlene Young
The Day: Snubbed New London city councilor secures place on general election ballot
Yale Daily News: Theodore’s victory breaks from unions’ hold on city politics
September 9, 2025
Yale Daily News: New Haven high schools usher in new school year without cell phones
Nancy on Norwalk: Barbara Smyth Wins Democratic Primary for Norwalk Mayor
Fortune Magazine: Target was hoping for a back-to-school sales bump that never game. Foot traffic is still down for the 7th month in a row
Public Employees & Higher Education News
October 7, 2025
Nancy on Norwalk: Norwalk Residents Request Continued Transparency, Sustainability at Annual Joint Budget Public Hearing
The Courant: Good news, bad news on Connecticut state budget as surplus hits $410 million for FY 2025
October 6, 2025
The Courant: A free speech organization looked at 5 CT colleges and universities. They all got a failing grade
Inside Higher Ed: Higher Ed Sounds Off on Proposed Compact
October 5, 2025
The Brown Daily Herald: Panelists sound alarm about state of academic freedom at Democracy Project event
October 4, 2025
The Washington Post: Trump administration resumes student loan forgivene
September 30, 2025
Associated Press: Judge finds the Trump administration unconstitutionally targeted noncitizens over Gaza war protests
Yale Daily News: Faculty group hosts panel on preparing for possible Trump intervention
Pittsburgh Public Source: Academic freedom is under attack. How have Pittsburgh higher ed leaders responded?
CNBC: ‘A perfect storm’ — more colleges at risk as enrollment falls and financial pressures mount
The Guardian: Judge issues blistering opinion against Trump policy to deport pro-Palestinian students
USA Today: What happens to student loans when the government shuts down?
September 28, 2025
The Courant: Free speech and academic freedom in Connecticut: ‘Everyone is scared’
September 27, 2025
Newsweek: Student Loan Update: Trump Admin Faces New Lawsuit Over Forgiveness
September 25, 2025
CT Mirror: More unions break talks with Lamont over past-due raises
The Hill (with audio): Ryan Walters steps down as Oklahoma schools chief, plans ‘to destroy’ teachers unions
September 23, 2025
NBC News (with video): How Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist reshaped free speech on campus
September 22, 2025
CT Public: UConn faculty member hears ‘grumbling’ about new athletics payouts
The CT Mirror: Union to Lamont: Don’t invest our pension funds in Connecticut Sun
September 21, 2025
CT Insider: Some CT university programs supporting minority students at risk due to Trump funding cuts
September 19, 2025
The CT Mirror: Southeastern CT lawmakers urge UConn to invest in Avery Point
September 18, 2025
The Daily Campus: Board of Trustees meeting discusses university budget, regional campus growth
September 17, 2025
The CT Mirror: CT slashes more debt – but not from pensions
September 16, 2025
Courthouse News Service: Labor groups sue Trump admin over University of California funding threats
CNBC: Student loan borrowers may face ‘enormous tax liability’ amid Trump administration delays: union
Bloomberg News: Charlie Kirk’s Killing Stirs Up New Funding Threats for Colleges
September 15, 2025
Forbes Magazine: IDR Processing Speeds Up, Backlog Still Over A Million
September 11, 2025
The Guardian: The chilling effect of Title VI investigations: the professors accused of antisemitism
October 4, 2025
CT Insider: Nearing $100 million, lawyer bills piling up in bankruptcy case of CT hospitals’ parent company
October 3, 2025
CT Insider: UConn trustees approve bid to buy Waterbury Hospital, health system expansion plan
October 2, 2025
Yale Daily News: YNHHS settles hospital acquisition dispute with $45-million deal
September 30, 2025
The Courant: Yale New Haven to pay $45M after failed hospital purchase deal
CT Insider: Hartford HealthCare bid for Manchester and Rockville hospitals could make it CT’s largest network
September 24, 2025
CT Insider: Buyers of Prospect’s CT hospitals face rent demands from Alabama company
The Daily Campus: UConn bids to add three CT hospitals to health network
September 23, 2025
Associated Press: State of Connecticut settle lawsuits over convict’s killing of visiting nurse for $2 million
CT News Junkie: Lawmakers, Experts See Potential Benefits And Drawbacks Of CT Hospital Consolidation
September 22, 2025
New Haven Independent Op-Ed: Participatory Budgeting: Hamden’s Doing It. NHPS Should, Too
September 19, 2025
Hartford Business Journal: Prospect Medical, Yale NH Health agree in principle to settle dispute over failed hospital deal
CT Insider: UConn makes its case for public hospital network in CT. ‘Best path for success’
Hartford Business Journal: Hartford HealthCare makes $86M bid for Manchester, Rockville hospitals
September 17, 2025
Beckers Hospital Review: UConn Health eyes $400M acquisition of 3 hospitals
Audacy: Connecticut could acquire three CT hospitals
September 15, 2025
The Day: Weapons detection system now in place at L+M Hospital
October9, 2025
WCPT 820 – Morning Drive (Audio): Interview with Randi Weingarten
October 7, 2025
Inside Higher Ed – Op-Ed: A Compact for Control
October 6, 2025
Apple Podcasts – Union Talk (audio): Healthcare Under Attack. Nurses Share the Impacts of Trump’s Government Shutdown
October 4, 2025
Legal AF (video): Trump ATTACKS BACKFIRE as TEACHERS Strike BACK!
October 3, 2025
Political Science & Politics Magazine – FirstView: From Autocratic to Republican: Rethinking the Corporate University
September 30, 2025
Wide Awake America (audio): Interview with Randi Weingarten
September 29, 2025
Weekend Reading (video): Randi Weingarten on Why Fascists Fear Teachers
September 25, 2025
Meidas Touch You Tube Channel (video): All Hell Breaks Loose at Schools as Trump Is Busted on Camera
September 23, 2025
The Good Fight (audio): Randi Weingarten on the State of America’s Public Schools
Septemeber 22, 2025
AFTHQ YouTube Channel (video): Weingarten on Velshi: School teachers are the antidote to authoritarianism
September 21, 2025
The Day: L+M’s rich history is slowly being sanitized
AFTHQ YouTube Channel (video): Hands-On Education in New Haven
September 19, 2025
CT Mirror: Lawmakers must defend academic freedom, healthcare access, and research in CT
September 17, 2025
CT Insider – Column: UConn Health to bid on Waterbury Hospital as it moves to create a public health system
September 16, 2025
The New Republic – Commentary: What’s Really Behind the Right-Wing Attack on Public School Teachers
