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Learn the history of the AFT, including the union's founding in Chicago in 1916, its affiliation with the AFL-CIO, its battles for workers and human rights and its continued work to uphold the proud traditions on which the union was created.

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Learn more about the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which was founded in 1916 to represent the economic, social and professional interests of classroom teachers and is an affiliated international union of the AFL-CIO.

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United Academics of Maryland is the statewide campaign to build unions for full time faculty at Maryland’s community colleges. After fighting for, and finally winning the right to collective bargaining for Community College employees in 2021, we’re coming together, college-by-college, to build strong, faculty-led unions committed to academic freedom, high-quality education, and respect and dignity for everyone on our campuses. Read on to learn more about our affiliation with the AFT: MORE

Delegates to the biennial meeting of the American Association of University Professors voted June 18 to affiliate with the American Federation of Teachers, joining forces to build a more powerful and inclusive academic labor movement that will be better able to take on the challenges facing higher education as well as the threats to our democracy. Click to read MORE

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is a nonprofit membership association of faculty and other academic professionals. Headquartered in Washington, DC, they have members and chapters based at colleges and universities across the country.  MORE

United Academics of Maryland is affiliated with The American Federation of Teachers. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is a union of professionals that champions fairness, democracy, economic opportunity, high-quality public education, healthcare, and public services for our students, their families, and our communities. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining, and political activism, and especially through the work our members do. AFT has over 1.8 million members in more than... Click to read MORE

The AFT represents higher education faculty (including both full- and part-time), professional staff and graduate employees, in all sectors of higher education: public and private, two-year, and four-year institutions of higher education. The AFT Higher Education division's mission is to help our affiliates and their members prosper in the face of political, economic and technological forces challenging the most basic assumptions about the union's role on campus. Click to read MORE

AFT-Maryland, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, was chartered in 1973 and today represents more than 18,000 members in the State of Maryland. The local unions within our State Federation represent pre-K through 12th-grade teachers; paraprofessionals and other school-related personnel; higher education faculty and professional staff; state and local government employees; and nurses and other healthcare professionals. Click to read MORE