AFT Michigan: Settlement Will Deter Future Project Veritas ‘Spies’

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 10/28/2026) AFT Michigan says its confidential settlement with Project Veritas will deter the conservative activist organization from again attempting to infiltrate a labor union, following a nine-year legal fight over an operative who secretly recorded union employees.

“The agreement will have the effect of deterring Project Veritas from again attempting to infiltrate a labor organization,” the union said Friday. It did not disclose the settlement’s terms.

AFT Michigan President Terrence Martin said he was “proud” of what the agreement represents.

“The spy who infiltrated our union was hoping to dig up embarrassing information on us but found instead how hard everyone at AFT Michigan works to represent our members,” Martin said. “Nine years later, AFT Michigan has almost doubled in size – amplifying our voices on behalf of our members and those we serve – while Project Veritas is nearly gone.”

MIRS’ efforts to reach a Project Veritas spokesperson have been unsuccessful.

AFT Michigan sued Project Veritas in 2017 after Project Veritas' representative posed as a University of Michigan student to get an internship with AFT and, while in that position, secretly recorded private conversations.

As MIRS first reported in late September, an order from U.S. District Judge Linda V. Parker said the parties reached a settlement that closed the case.

The settlement follows Parker’s March decision, which granted summary judgment to AFT on its claims of trespass and fraudulent misrepresentation but sided with Project Veritas on whether the operative violated the state’s eavesdropping law.

Michigan is a “one-party consent” state, which means that at least one person in the recorded conversation must be aware that it is being recorded.