Category: Organizing
- 03/31/11 New Haven, Conn.: Thousands Rally in Solidarity with Workers under Siege More than 3,000 union members and their progressive allies marched on the streets on New Haven, Conn. Wednesday.
- 03/22/11 Organizing for Power with AFSCME With this column, we note the many organizing victories achieved during the past several months, both large and small (listed alphabetically by state).
- 03/16/11 AFSCME Council 26 Wins Organizing Honor AFSCME Council 26’s successful drive last fall to organize 138 U.S. Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) tour guides and visitor assistants was recognized this month by the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO.
- 02/04/11 Maryland State Workers Score Big With New Contract
- 01/19/11 AFSCME Members to Maryland Lawmakers: ‘Enough is Enough!’ Approximately 150 members of AFSCME Maryland met with their state representatives in Annapolis on Jan. 12 – the first day of the legislative session – to send a clear message that the state’s budget should not be balanced on their backs.
- 01/12/11 Want to Help Workers Build a Union? Interested in working for social and economic justice through the labor movement? Want to learn first-hand what it’s like to work on the front lines of an organizing campaign?
- 12/23/10 Guide to Talking Unions This Holiday Season It's easy to tune out misinformation about unions and the workers who make them strong when you hear it on the news, but what should you do this holiday season when the same misinformation comes from your friends and family?
- 07/01/10 We Make Organizing Happen! When it comes to standing with workers who want a stronger voice at the bargaining table, no one does it better than AFSCME. Nearly 44,000 new members said “yes” to AFSCME in 2009 — making us the number one organizing union in the AFL-CIO.
- 02/24/10 Make A Difference During Spring Break This spring, student activists are organizing conferences on college campuses throughout the country, taking on some of the most critical issues of our time.
- 11/24/09 Spend Your Break Fighting for Justice Are you a college senior considering a career in social change and want to help make change happen in the world around you? Do you believe that a strong labor movement is vital to fighting back the attacks on working families, on health care?
