Chartered 1966

Faculty standing together for six decades.

The HFCC-FT represents full-time faculty, counselors, and librarians at Henry Ford College — negotiating one of the nation’s strongest community college contracts since our founding strike in 1966.

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1966

Local 1650 chartered — the first faculty bargaining unit in the U.S. to strike

60+

years of collective bargaining and shared governance

Our history, in photographs

From the earliest organizing drives to national AFT conventions — decades of advocacy, in the faces that built this local.

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Negotiating for faculty, protecting shared governance.

Since 1966, the HFCC-FT has negotiated one of the nation’s leading community college contracts and one of its strongest traditions of collegial shared governance.

We represent full-time teaching faculty, counselors, and librarians — advocating at the bargaining table, in Lansing, and in the classroom for the working conditions that make good teaching possible.