Category: From the President
- 09/21/12 It Takes a Lot of Brass: Romney and America’s Veterans Romney shows nothing but contempt for the men and women who sacrifice for all Americans.
- 03/14/12 Saunders: We Must Build a Main Street Movement In radio appearances nationwide, Sec.-Treas. Lee Saunders talked about AFSCME’s history — and its future.
- 02/17/12 Asserting a Claim on Democracy As we observe Black History Month, AFSCME members are taking part in a Main Street movement.
- 08/23/11 Revive the Dream The dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is an opportunity to renew our commitments to fight for social and economic justice.
- 07/25/11 Undermining the Right to Vote New requirements will keep students, minorities and seniors from having their voices heard.
- 06/14/11 Prison Privatization as Political Payback Taxpayers wind up paying more when private contractors cut corners on safety, health and services.
- 03/10/11 An Affront to Democracy Wisconsin Senate Republicans used legislative tricks to ram through Governor Walker's bill — wiping out collective bargaining rights for nurses, teachers, EMTs and other trusted public employees.
- 12/02/10 Stop Believing the Myths About 401(k) Plans The former publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote a column this week calling public employee pensions “grotesque shadows of their initial good intention” and pushing private savings plans as the future of retirement.
- 09/28/10 America's Failed 401(k) Experiment While the unfunded pension liabilities in many public retirement funds have received an inordinate amount of attention, the larger retirement deficit of most Americans is not generating the level of concern that it deserves.
- 08/25/10 New Jersey's Pension Fraud Hurts Investors, Taxpayers and Retirees Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission did something it has never done before. It charged the state of New Jersey with fraudulently misleading investors about the health of the state's pension plan
