AFT Connecticut represents thousands working in the state’s executive and judicial branches, as well as the career and technical education system, colleges and universities, in addition to several local municipalities. Our federation is also part of the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC), which serves to unite the major unions representing over 40,000 full and part-time Connecticut state workers.
Timely updates and relevant resources for members of SEBAC-affiliated locals are available at the coalition’s website, linked above.
Click here for SEBAC v. Rowland lawsuit settlement information from the firm representing the coalition (Nov., 2022).
State workers whose rights to collective bargaining have been historically restricted under the law are also a part of our labor family. Since the 2017 affiliation with the Association of Managerial Employees in the Connecticut State Service (AMECSS), hundreds have joined together for a stronger voice on the job.
Click here to send email requesting more information about our Managerial + Exempt (M+E) Employees (or access their website at the Locals section, linked above).
Public Employees News
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Standing Up for Paid Parental Leave for All
Study after study has found that family-friendly policies improve performance by increasing productivity, morale and loyalty while also reducing absenteeism, turnover and “brain drain.” In a recently published op-ed, a member of our AFT Connecticut-affiliated UConn-AAUP chapter called out her employer’s failure to ensure access to paid parental leave for all of its workforce. Associate…
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Resisting Brutal Budgeting and Crippling Cuts
Patients and students – as well as the providers and instructors they depend on – are suffering the consequences of the White House’s painful funding reductions and shameful political patronage. In a recently published op-ed, the executive committee of our AFT Connecticut-affiliated UCHC-AAUP (in collage, above) urged state lawmakers to shield residents from the escalating…
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Leaning Into Organizing as Resistance
“The professors are the enemy” may have seemed like little more than a vulgar political slur, but in 2025, it underpins a destructive policy agenda. The hostile and threatening climate was top of mind for the hundreds of faculty and staff at our national union’s annual higher education conference. Leaders and activists from Connecticut traveled…
