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 20, 2025
New Haven Register: New Haven educators raise alarm over involuntary transfers, school closures, and budget transparency
July 18, 2025
New Haven Independent: Avelo Protesters Make “Good Trouble” At Tweed
July 17, 2025
WSHU-AM Radio News: CT teachers and advocates complain about cuts to public schools, blame state lawmakers
The Ink: Bad numbers, good trouble, and the American dream
CT Public: New Haven protesters cite civil rights icon John Lewis, as Avelo Airlines boycott continues
WSHU-AM Radio News:How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ will impact CT education, its students and schools: local experts
CT Insider: How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ will impact CT education, its students and schools: local experts
July 16, 2025
CNN: Education Department funding freeze targets summer school and language programs that are lifelines for families
The Day: Salem teacher killed in car crash remembered as guiding light for teachers and students
July 15, 2025
The CT Mirror: Lawmakers carve a new path around CT budget cap
July 14, 2025
University Business: Big Department of Ed layoffs OK’d by Supreme Court
CT Mirror: CT sues Trump admin. to restore $53.6M in frozen funds for education
New Haven Register: Five years in making, New Haven finalizes substitute teacher contract with raises and benefits
July 11, 2025
Rolling Stone Magazine: Blue States Invest Retirees’ Savings in Firms Boosting Trump’s Extreme Agenda
July 10, 2025
New Haven Independent: Alder Hopeful Recruits For Campaign & Camping
July 9, 2025
Time: The AI Industry is Funding A Massive AI Training Initiative for Teachers
New Haven Independent: Now Hiring: “Chief Of School Operations”
July 8, 2025
Nancy on Norwalk: Norwalk Officials Highlight $36M HVAC Upgrades for Local Schools
New Haven Independent: Substitute Teachers Contract Approved
The New York Times: OpenAI and Microsoft Bankroll New A.I. Training for Teachers
Education Week: Teachers Face New Burdens After Supreme Court LGBTQ+ Opt-Out Ruling
July 7, 2025
New Haven Independent: $3M In “Contingency Funding” Pitched For NHPS
Peoples World: AFL-CIO bus tour revs up labor’s mobilization against Trump bill
July 6, 2025
The Courant: CT education department reviewed Hartford Schools. It found what a lawmaker calls ‘glaring issues’
July 4, 2025
The Courant: Trump administration withholding of grants devastating to CT schools: officials. See what it hits.
July 3, 2025
CT Insider: CT schools set to lose some $50M after Trump administration’s funding freeze: ‘A huge crisis’
The New York Times: Congress Passes a National School Voucher Program
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
Public Employees & Higher Education News
July 23, 2025
The CT Mirror: With a poll, liberals nudge Lamont toward retirement or reform
July 22, 2025
Inside Higher Ed: Report: Faculty Often Missing From University Decisions on AI
July 21, 2025
Hartford Business Journal: Union contracts for UConn employees expire without new agreements in place
Inside Higher Ed: 5 Key Takeaways from ‘Ideological Deportation’ Trial
July 17, 2025
The CT Mirror: Lamont predicts salary deals with all CT employee unions
July 15, 2025
Diverse Issues in Higher Education: AAUP Report Reveals Mixed Picture of Faculty Authority at Community Colleges
July 9, 2025
CT Public: UConn professor speaks out against cuts to higher ed
July 8, 2025
The CT Mirror: Two more CT unions break off contract talks with Lamont
July 7, 2025
The Guardian: Trial to consider Trump’s ‘ideological-deportation policy’ targeting pro-Palestinian students
July 4, 2025
CT Insider: Connecticut state worker contracts expired on July 1 and unions want more pay
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
July 23, 2025
Stamford Advocate: Bankrupt hospital owner Prospect tells judge that sale of Connecticut hospitals is near
July 21, 2025
The Courant: Officials say bidding process delays could endanger CT hospitals. Situation called ‘dire.’
July 17, 2025
The Day: L+M Hospital employees over 65 offered buyout
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
July 22, 2025
Hartford Business Journal: Do you think state employees should receive 4.5% raises?
July 16, 2025
The Ink: WATCH: Teachers vs. fascists
The Contrarian: Coffee with Contrarians 07/16
July 14, 2025
CNBC YouTube: AFT president on joining forces with Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI to launch a new AI initiative
July 8, 2025
American Red Cross Connecticut Chapter – Blog: How One Father’s Blood Drive with the Red Cross is Saving Lives
July 9, 2025
The New York Review: A Lesson for Democrats. Randi Weingarten, interviewed by Daniel Drake
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
