About Us

AFT Kansas Locals

City of Topeka - Local 6406

President: John Weisgerber

Vice President: William Sharp

Secretary-Treasurer: Angelica Huber

https://connect.aft.org/app/memberforms/06406/JoinCTEU

Fort Hays State University - Local 6753

President: Shane Shartz

Kansas Organization of State

Employees - Local 300

President: Sarah LaFrenz

Vice-President: Loren Kriegel

Secretary: Rick Wiley

Email: sarah.lafrenz@koseunion.org

Kansas State University - Local 6400

President: William Burris

Vice: President: Lloyd Baker III

Secretary/Treasurer: Arden Pultz

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PO Box 19662

Topeka, KS 66601

2026 AFT-KS Elected Leadership

Mike Harris, President

Eugene Rice, PhD., President.

Becca Davison, Secretary

Dr. Robert Castleberry, Treasurer

AFT-KS Organizing Staff

Stephen Maurer, UTW Organizer, USD259

Connor Mitchell, AFT-KS Organizer

Sarah Crossley, AFT-KS Organizer

Welcome to AFT-Kansas

AFT-Kansas is the largest public employee union in the State of Kansas.

AFT Healthcare represents more than 70,000 members in 100 locals in 18 states and territories. The division has a very diverse membership, with members in more than 6,000 job titles working in the public and private sector in hospitals, clinics, home health agencies and schools throughout the United States. Many members are registered nurses, but the union also represents LPNs, technicians, technologists, therapists, aides, clerical personnel, service and maintenance workers, pharmacists and doctors. MORE

About AFT Public Employees

AFT Public Employees is the division of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) that represents federal, state and local government employees. MORE

About AFT PSRP

The Paraprofessional and School-Related Personnel (PSRP) division of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, represents more than 350,000 school support staff in K-12 districts, colleges and universities. Our jobs include office employees, custodians, maintenance workers, bus drivers, instructional paraprofessionals, food service workers, school nurses and health aides, technicians, groundskeepers, secretaries, bookkeepers, mechanics, special education assistants and hundreds of other job titles.

About AFT Higher Education

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. MORE

About AFT Teachers

Throughout this century, the AFT has been a major force for preserving and strengthening America's democratic commitment to public education and public service. Desegregating public schools, passing the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act, establishing collective bargaining for teachers and other public employees, and addressing the needs of disadvantaged children are just a few of the causes the AFT has championed. MORE

History of the AFT

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.

AFT Mission Statement

The American Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and 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.