Category: Economic Security
- 03/29/11 Florida AFSCME Members Protest Anti-Worker Bills Close to 2,000 AFSCME members and progressive allies from across the Florida Panhandle held a massive rally in Tallahassee today to protest Republican Gov. Rick Scott’s anti-worker policies.
- 03/22/11 Small Businesses Join AFSCME Ohio in Opposition to SB 5 AFSCME members are holding a series of eight press events around the state in conjunction with a group of small businesses who are part of Proud Ohio Workers.
- 03/18/11 AFSCME Defends N.Y.C. Public Child Care AFSCME District Council 1707, District Council 37 and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)/AFSCME Local 1000 are standing firm with Manhattan Borough Pres. Scott Stringer (D) to fight cuts to vital child care services.
- 02/18/11 ‘I Am So Happy You Are Here,’ Lawmaker Tells Union Demonstrators From his second-floor office at the state Capitol, Rep. Gary Hebl (D) watches thousands of public service workers, teachers and other union members marching to protest a bill designed to take away important collective bargaining rights.
- 01/07/11 The Shameful Attack on Public Employees In 1968, 1,300 sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life. Memphis heard the grievances of its sanitation workers
- 08/16/10 Standing Up for American Jobs According to a CNN poll released last week, 60% of Americans support legislation recently passed by Congress to save hundreds of thousands of jobs that were on the chopping block.
- 12/18/08 Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery Now
- 05/09/08 McCain to 14-Year-Old: No Equal Pay for You
