MEA-MFT's History
MEA-MFT is the union created when the Montana Education Association and the Montana Federation of Teachers merged September 1, 2000.
MEA-MFT is one of the oldest advocacy groups in Montana. Frontier educators first organized MEA in 1882. MFT traces its roots to a short-lived effort to organize faculty at now the University of Montana in 1918 and a successful and permanent beginning in 1934 among public school educators in Butte and Anaconda.
Read the full MEA-MFT history.
Chronology of the MEA-MFT merger