AFT Vice President
Eric Feaver is president of the MEA-MFT (AFL-CIO).

MEA-MFT represents 17,000 professional and classified employees working in public schools, the university system, Head Start, state, and local governments, and private healthcare across the state of Montana.  MEA-MFT is the merged union of the former Montana Education Association and the former Montana Federation of Teachers. 

From 1974 to 1984, Feaver taught English and social studies in the Helena public schools.  In 1984, he was elected president of the former MEA.  He held that post until the year 2000, when he was elected the first president of the MEA-MFT.  He has been been re-elected three times for two-year terms since then.

Feaver was born in Wyoming and raised in Oklahoma.  From 1969 to 1970, he served in Vietnam in the 4th Infantry Division as an army combat medic. He earned a BA in government, history and economics from the University of Oklahoma, an MA in American history from the University of Maryland and an honorary doctorate of education from Montana State University.