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 22, 2025
Yale Daily News: New Haven Public Schools unveils more detailed line-item budget
Bloomberg Tax: Judge Adds Treasury Union to Shutdown Layoff Court Freeze
October 20, 2025
Associated Press: Big Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI, in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms
In These Times: Seven Million Turn Out for “No Kings” Protests Nationwide. Next Up, Massive Disruptions Backed by Unions?
October 18, 2025
New Haven Independent: “No Kings,” In Photos
October 17, 2025
Associated Press: Big Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI, in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms
October 15, 2025
Fast Company: No Kings October 18 protest: Millions expected in all 50 states for biggest rally yet against Trump. Here’s what to know
October 13, 2025
New Haven Independent: Striking Teachers’ “Good Trouble” Remembered
October 12, 2025
Alternate: Alarm raised as Trump undertakes a controversial MAGA-centric makeover of US civics education
October 10, 2025
CT Mirror: CT Board of Ed: Lawmakers say which charter schools get funded
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
Public Employees & Higher Education News
October 23, 2025
The Courant: UConn professors union calls for stronger protections for academic freedom. Why they are worried.
October 21, 2025
The Daily Campus: UConn-AAUP holds rally outside Student Union Ballroom
October 20, 2025
Yale Daily News: Faculty group urges Yale to reject potential Trump compact offer
Fox Business: Trump administration agrees to speed up student loan forgiveness under new court deal
October 18, 2025
The New York Times: ‘No More Trump!’: Protesters Denouncing the President Unite Across the Country
October 17, 2025
Forbes Magazine: Huge Win For Borrowers As Student Loan Forgiveness Resumes For Millions
Newsweek: Trump Admin Sued Over Social Media ‘Surveillance’ of Visa Holders
October 16, 2025
News Times: See which CT towns have ‘No Kings’ protests planned against the Trump administration
October 15, 2025
The Courant: UConn paying $700K for ‘budget transformation initiative’. It’s raising fears about layoffs.
October 12, 2025
CT Insider: CT union frustrations with Lamont mount over contract talks, proposed Sun purchase
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
October 20, 2025
CT Insider: Hartford HealthCare points to ‘transformative’ change at St. Vincent’s in Bridgeport as it wins bid for Manchester, Rockville hospitals
The Courant: Hartford Healthcare wins bid to purchase two struggling CT hospitals
CT Mirror: Hartford HealthCare wins Prospect Medical Holdings CT hospitals
October 15, 2025
CT News Junkie: CT Nurse Tells Congress Rural Hospital Patients Are Being Harmed By Shutdown
Associated Press: House Democrats tap constituents to make their case on shutdown
October 14, 2025
CT Mirror: CT could bond $390M for UConn Health, including Waterbury Hospital purchase
October 10, 2025
CT Insider: Prospect Medical debts approach $500 million among CT creditors large and small, records show
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
October 22, 2025
Yale Daily News: HOSANG: How a talented Yale alum helped a right wing grift site mischaracterize our AAUP meeting
Nancy on Norwalk: Smyth Campaign to Host Trivia Fundraiser at The Blind Rhino
New Britain Progressive: Alderwoman Candyce Scott Promises To Continue Being A Strong Voice For Ward 3
October 21, 2025
The Daily Campus: No Secrets: UConn must bargain transparently with its unions
CT Mirror: Opinion: This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors
October 17, 2025
Medium: Caring through crisis
October 14, 2025
We-Ha.com: Meet The Candidate: Ben Wenograd
October 13,2025
Teachers Unify (audio): Survivor Stories: Cindy Carlson
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
