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
December 18, 2025
Academic Freedom on the Line: New AAUP Report on AI and Academic Professions
December 17, 2025
New Haven Independent: Amid Contract “Impasse,” Teachers Union Readies For Arbitration
New Haven Register (with video): New Haven teachers’ contract heading toward arbitration, union president says: ‘We will be ready’
December 16, 2025
NBC Connecticut News: ‘We aren’t backing down’: arbitration deadline looms for New Haven teachers union
Publishers Weekly: Reintroduction of Federal Right to Read Act Aims to Bolster Literacy, School Libraries
Middletown Press: Middletown charter school files lawsuit against CT Department of Education over funding to open
December 12, 2025
New Haven Independent: Alders Press For NHPS-Budget Clarity
NBC Connecticut News (with video): New Haven Alders push for school budget clarity, while teachers lobby for health care
Statescoop: State leaders, civil rights groups respond to ‘dangerous’ Trump order banning state AI laws
December 10, 2025
The Courant: CT educators slam mayor’s decision to pause school renovation projects. ‘This is about safety’
The Street Roundtable: Major labor union warns new bill could put retirement savings at risk
December 9, 2025
New Haven Register: New Haven teachers are advocating for affordable health care, higher wages in new contract
The Courant: CT meets milestone in desegregation settlement. Why educators say disparity persists
New Haven Independent: Teachers Make Closing Push For Affordable Health Care
CNBC: Teachers’ union AFT slams crypto market bill, warns of ‘profound risks’ for America’s retirement plans
December 7, 2025
WTNH Channel 8 News (video): New Haven teachers push for higher wages, affordable health care amid contract negotiations
December 5, 2025
New Haven Independent: As Negotiations Wrap Up, Teachers Union & NHPS Eye New Contract
December 3, 2025
Yale Daily News: For closed school’s former teachers, new year has posed challenges
November 25, 2025
The Courant: Some CT schools are finding ways to bring kids back to class. It comes amid chronic absentee rates
The New York Times: School Groups Sue to Stop Dismantling of the Education Department
November 24, 2025
The Washington Post: Trump wants to ‘return education to the states.’ Is that what he’s doing?
November 21, 2025
Common Dreams: ‘The Main Course Is Inflation’: Thanksgiving Costs Surge Under Trump
November 20, 2025
People’s World: Connecticut AFL-CIO says “stand up, fight back”
November 19, 2025
New Haven Independent: High School Interns Train With Teachers Union
November 18, 2025
Nancy on Norwalk: Norwalk Board of Education to Hold Nov. 19 Town Hall on FY 2026–27 School Budget
Reuters: Trump administration announces steps in dismantling Education Department
Public Employees & Higher Education News
December 17, 2025
The Chronicle: UConn faculty union calling for action on $1.5M salary equity fund
December 16, 2025
CNBC: Trump officials move slowly on student loan forgiveness, repayment plan backlog: court filing
December 12, 2025
The Courant: A CT university has a $44B endowment. But staff layoffs are possible; prof calls it ‘demoralizing’
December 10, 2025
New Haven Register: Connecticut’s $10B pension paydown will save taxpayers $18B in the long term, officials say
December 9, 2025
Forbes Magazine: Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research
December 5, 2025
CT Insider: CT court workers get 2.5% raise, step hike through arbitration
December 3, 2025
CT News Junkie: Costumed Protesters Demand Academic Freedom Protections At UConn
CT Mirror: 3 CT state employee unions to get pay hikes worth 4.5%
December 2, 2025
The Daily Campus: Activists wear inflatable costumes to protest UConn’s handling of academic freedom
December 1, 2025
The Day: UConn faculty protest for academic freedom, speech
November 26, 2025
Forbes Magazine: Student Loan Forgiveness Is Back As Education Department Resumes Processing
November 21, 2025
Yale Daily News: As Yale and Harvard meet, treatment by Trump sets them apart
November 18, 2025
The Edu Ledger: AAUP Report Warns of Growing Legislative Threats to Faculty Governance Nationwide
November 17, 2025
The Daily Campus: UConn continues review of small programs
December 13, 2025
The Middletown Press: From forgiven debt to diverted funding, records provide insight into Prospect’s CT hospital financial woes
December 11, 2025
The Courant: CT health strategy department approves Hartford Healthcare’s acquisition of two hospitals
December 9, 2025
CT Insider: UConn Health details plan for Waterbury Hospital but seeks to shield some data on economic impact, quality care from public
December 5, 2025
CT Insider: CT hospital partners with ‘gig’ nursing program, sparking concern from union
November 21, 2025
NBC Connecticut News (with video): Concerns about planned caps on federal student loans
November 18, 2025
NBC Connecticut News (with video): Hartford HealthCare seeks state approval to buy Manchester, Rockville hospitals
November17, 2025
Law360: UConn Health Poised To Buy Hospital In $35M Ch. 11 Deal
December 16, 2025
In These Times – Working People Podcast (with audio): In an Attempt to Cause Fear and Demobilize, the Trump Administration Increases Threats on Higher Education
December 2, 2025
People’s World – Opinion: Target boycott is showing the power of Black-labor unity
November 26, 2025
New Haven Independent – Opinion: Wanted: High-Quality, Affordable Health Insurance For Teachers
CT Viewpoints – Opinion: Academic freedom should extend to UConn graduate assistants
Forward – Letter to the Editor: Jewish leaders must work with educators to battle antisemitism — not demonize us
November 19, 2025
ABC News (video): How do teachers feel about new plans to dismantle the Education Department?
MS Now (video): Trump admin shifts Department of Education’s responsibilities to other agencies
November 18, 2025
CT Mirror: Opinion: Keeping teaching a worthy profession
The Daily Campus: LTTE: Support UConn Faculty’s Reasonable Contract Demands
November 17, 2025
The Washington Post: Americans can do better by veterans. Here’s how.
