AFT, Local 212 MATC

The fight to hold predatory colleges accountable continues. Wisconsin legislators, Angelito Tenorio, Ben Desmidt and Ryan Clancy have introduced 4 bills that are generating national attentions. See

Wisconsin Bills Take Aim at Predatory For-Profit Colleges Among the proposals is a new path for students to sue fraudulent career colleges.

Check out this excellent column by Bria Burris, the FAST Fund's executive director, on the need for the state to increase its support for MATC students and the FAST Fund's flood recovery efforts.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2025/09/15/matc-students-technical-college-government-assistance/86064390007/?tbref=hp&fbclid=IwY2xjawM3y85leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHkA6T-T8nHwv4bLYee0rPVNKb8M5d8apQ6XdQy4jlOQgWr-H1Yqe5XgF0G1M_aem_FeB7XT_C8VmTzW23G6MwVA

Milwaukee flooding reveals financial challenges most college students face | Opinion Higher education is not a luxury. We need to ensure that our students, including non-traditional and parent students, have the resources they need.

Community and local 212 demand that MATC reinstate the multicultural center's 4 student service specialists.

Dozens protest elimination of four multicultural jobs at Milwaukee Area Technical College Milwaukee Area Technical College cut four jobs in the former Office of Multicultural Services, which has been renamed the Office of Community Impact.

In Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, the administration proposes cutting the maximum annual Pell Grant from $7,395 to $5,710, a drop that would bring the grant to its lowest level in over a decade, and slashing funding for the Federal Work-Study program, which helps students pay for college through part-time jobs. These changes are a threat to the education of MATC's students and the college itself.