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
July 3, 2025
CT Insider: CT schools set to lose some $50M after Trump administration’s funding freeze: ‘A huge crisis’
July 2, 2025
New Haven Independent: It’s Official: NHPS Budget Approved; Brennan-Rogers To Close
The New York Times: Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation
June 30, 2025
WTNH News Channel 8: DeLauro: Mental health funding cuts will hurt Connecticut students
The Middletown Press: Middletown Board of Education cuts positions to help close budget gap for next school year
June 28, 2025
Axios: Job Corps shutdown would displace thousands of young trainees
June 27, 2025
CT Mirror: Estimates show $190M more revenue, right after budget is adopted
Associated Press: Rural schools feel the pinch from Trump administration’s cuts to mental health grants
June 26, 2025
Fox 61 News: Non-certified employees at Connecticut schools to become eligible for paid leave on Oct. 1
June 25, 2025
Education Week: How Teachers’ Unions Are Confronting the Second Trump Era
June 24, 2025
People’s World: Pressure is on five senators to kill Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
June 23, 2025
Columbia Spectator: Federal judge dismisses AAUP and AFT lawsuit against Trump administration over Columbia funding cuts
The Courant: CT Gov. Lamont vetoes controversial housing, striking workers bills
June 20, 2025
New Haven Independent: Close Brennan-Rogers? Not So Fast …
June 18, 2025
Nancy on Norwalk: Norwalk BOE Approves Amended FY2026 Budget with City’s $500K Infusion Restoring Special Ed Roles
June 17, 2025
The Hour: Norwalk school board postpones budget vote — again — but appears to have ‘saved’ 61 jobs
June 16, 2025
CT Public: Norwalk schools and city agree to last-minute budget deal saving music teachers
CT Insider: Hundreds rally outside CT Governor’s Residence for unemployment benefits for striking workers
The Hour: Norwalk Board of Education sets budget vote – again – this time with $8M proposal included
CNN: Union leaders Randi Weingarten and Lee Saunders quit DNC posts in the party’s latest dispute
June 15, 2025
CT Examiner: School Budget Deal Appears Back on in Norwalk
June 14, 2025
The CT Mirror: ‘No Kings’ protests draw thousands to CT and across the U.S.
New Haven Independent: Anti-Trump Protest Calls For “No Kings”
June 13, 2025
The Courant: Dozens of ‘No Kings’ protests expected throughout CT Saturday. Thousands expected; what to know.
The New York Times: Two Top Union Leaders Quit D.N.C. Posts in Dispute With Chairman
June 12, 2025
The Hour: $8 million plan to save Norwalk school positions off table after board vote, Duff says
New Haven Register: New Haven school officials say 129 layoffs still loom after budget’s ‘small increase’
Arts Council of Greater New Haven – Blog: “I Need My Mother Back Home:” Hundreds Rally Downtown After ICE Raid
June 11, 2025
New Haven Independent: Hundreds Protest ICE Arrests
NBC Connecticut News (with video): Meriden community members rally to bring detained teen back to Connecticut
June 10, 2025
New Haven Independent: Teachers Push Back On Coming Layoffs
New Haven Independent: Substitute Teachers Contract Advances
The Hour: Norwalk schools budget vote halted amid last-minute plan – with conditions – from city, state of $8M
Forbes Magazine: Billionaire Walmart Heiress Promotes Nationwide Anti-Trump Protests
People’s World: Determined to create crisis, Trump sends the Marines into Los Angeles
June 9, 2025
News 12 Connecticut: Possible budget resolution could save at-risk teacher jobs in Norwalk
CNBC: Supreme Court just gave DOGE access to Social Security data. Here’s what personal information is at stake
CT News Junkie: Union Workers Back LA Immigrant Workers At Capitol Rally Monday
NBC Washington (video): Hundreds protest outside DOJ over nationwide ICE raids
WTOP: Demonstrators rally in DC to protest ICE raids, California union leader’s arrest
June 8, 2025
New Haven Register: 50 years after historic teacher strike, New Haven educators recall fight for better conditions
June 7, 2025
The Hour: Norwalk school board prepares to meet again for budget vote that could cut 130 positions in district
June 6, 2025
The New York Times: Trump Administration Asks Justices to Clear the Way for Cuts to Education Department
NBC News: Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security data
June 5, 2025
New Haven Independent: Elicker Rips Lamont, Says State Budget Makes School Layoffs “Unavoidable”
June 4, 2025
New Haven Independent: Veteran Teachers Seek Exit Before Benefit Sunset
CT Public: Norwalk BOE postpones budget cut vote amid public debate
The Hour: Vote delayed on Norwalk’s $13M in school cuts after parents, students slam district in fiery meeting
Nancy on Norwalk (with video): Crowd Packs BOE Meeting as Norwalk Residents Respond to Budget Cuts and Staffing Reductions
Nancy on Norwalk: Parents, Educators, and Community Members Protest School Staff Cuts
June 3, 2025
News 12 CT (with video): ‘Save our staff.’ Norwalk parents, teachers push back against potential budget cuts
June 2, 2025
The Hour: Norwalk Board of Education to vote on budget, including massive cut of 130 positions
News 12 Connecticut: Norwalk school budget cuts could cost dozens of teachers their jobs
New Haven Independent: Striking Teachers, Once Jailed, Reunite
Public Employees & Higher Education News
July 2, 2025
CT Mirror: CT employee union takes Lamont to arbitration after no raise offer
July 1, 2025
NPR: Federal pressure on Harvard over antisemitism echoes conservative attacks on higher ed
Inside Higher Ed: ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Nears the Finish Line
June 27, 2025
The Courant: CT colleges and universities face deep cuts: ‘We have depleted faculty and staff’; ‘What a tragedy’
June 26, 2025
The American Prospect: University Unions Stand Up to Trump’s Research Cuts While Administrators Waver
June 25, 2025
CT Mirror: UConn trustees debate enrollment as a solution to budget shortfall
June 24, 2025
The Middletown Press: ‘A lot of pain’: UConn preps for budget cuts and other changes amid $100 million deficit
CT Mirror: After vetoes on housing and labor, Lamont tries to make amends
The Courant: UConn weighing reducing workforce, restricting activities to close $134 million deficit
June 22, 2025
Yale Daily News: Yalies express pride in University’s move to legally back Harvard
June 18, 2025
The Hechinger Report: Behind the turmoil of federal attacks on colleges, some states are going after tenure
June 17, 2025
Inside Higher Ed: AAUP Report: Faculty Salaries Rise Again, Though Not to Pre-Pandemic High
June 13, 2025
CT Insider: Judge OKs pay boost for execs at bankrupt Waterbury and ECHN hospitals
The Hill: Harvard, Columbia fights with Trump point to lessons for other schools
June 5, 2025
CT Insider: UConn, CSCU brace for cuts in new Connecticut budget: ‘A real disaster’
June 2, 2025
Associated Press: Texas is poised to become the latest GOP state to exert control over university curriculum
July 2, 2025
Beckers Hospital Review: Connecticut lawmakers urge UConn Health to reduce executive pay
June 29, 2025
The Bulletin: Backus Hospital and the nurses’ union have come to a contract agreement: What does it say?
The Courant: UConn Health abruptly reverses controversial plan to cut pay for more than 250 nurses
June 24, 2025
The Hour: Backus Hospital nurses make sizable gains with new contract
Modern Healthcare: Healthcare cuts in tax bill spur another opposition ad campaign
June 20, 2025
Journal Inquirer: Head of bankrupt CT hospitals objects to Sen. Murphy’s storytelling effort as threat to sale, worker morale
The CT Mirror: Amid Prospect Medical bankruptcy, CT private equity reform fails
June 5, 2025
Law 360: Nurses Union, Hospital Settle Row Over Mandatory OT Work
July 3, 2025
The Daily Beans (Podcast): The Big Ugly (feat. Randi Weingarten)
July 2, 2025
The Majority Report with Sam Seder: 7/2 Senate Sells Out Working Families w/ Randi Weingarten
Medium: AFT leaders call for stronger heat protections as workers face rising challenges of climate change
June 30, 2025
Yale Daily News: AHMAD: Yale promises “Lux et Veritas,” but terms and conditions apply
June 27, 2025
Apple Podcasts – Union Talk (audio): The Big Betrayal
June 10, 2025
CT Insider – Column: Connecticut education funding left out in the cold
New Haven Independent – Opinion: New Haven Scholarship Fund Celebrates 2025 Awardees
U.S. News & World Report – Opinion: Wake Up, America. Cutting Health and Science Funding Costs Lives.
June 4, 2025
Nancy on Norwalk – Opinion: A (Not-So-Brief) Overview of Funding for Norwalk Public Schools
June 3, 2025
Inside Higher Ed – Opinion: This Will Not Be a Normal Summer
June 2, 2025
The Courant – Opinion: Pay CT paraeducators a livable wage. Strengthen the future of every classroom:
