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All the resources you need on immigration and ICE

Federal immigration actions are rapidly expanding, with deadly consequences. The killings of poet Renee Nicole Good and nurse Alex Pretti by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis have brought intense focus on the use of excessive force. An AFT webinar, co-hosted by AFT President Randi Weingarten and AFT Massachusetts President Jessica Tang on Jan. 28, featured experts on immigration and the law. It highlighted AFT resources and showcased how our locals are showing up to minimize fear and trauma.

It is clear that higher education is under attack. The Trump administration has frozen funding for science, from cancer research to reproductive care; has hamstrung student financial aid programs; has stripped colleges and universities of diversity, equity and inclusion programming; has strangled affirmative action designed to expand access to college; and is demanding that some institutions sign a “compact” that forces them to adopt Trump’s ideology in exchange for federal funding.

June 3, 2025: Updates on Bargaining, Budgets and Furlough Proposals

Though SCD has yet to answer our requests for information on the budget realities and their reduction plans, last week our negotiations co-chairs sent administration our official demand-to-bargain notice on furloughs. With this notice, we officially opened up negotiations on the “offer” SCD presented on May 2 to reduce hours as a way to avoid a reduction in force.

We do not know when these negotiations will begin, but the strategy is to keep them separate from our CBA negotiations. Our negotiations co-chairs, Dave Ellenwood and Cristóbal Borges, will be coordinating these negotiations.

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June 3, 2025: Updates on Bargaining, Budgets and Furlough Proposals