The Michigan Federation of Teachers & School Related Personnel is the state organization of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) our national union. Individual members belong to an AFT union local. Each union local is affiliated with the MFT&SRP and the AFT and are active participants in the AFL-CIO and their local labor councils. This labor network enhances the union’s effectiveness in local communities, the state legislature and in Washington, D.C. to address issues important to our membership.

Statewide, our members work in PreK-12 and intermediate school districts, universities, community colleges, and state and local government.

The MFT&SRP represents 35,000 members in 93 locals reaching from Monroe at the most southern point to Whitefish Point in the Upper Peninsula and ranging in size from over 12,000 teachers in the Detroit Public Schools to eight in our northern most local.