Category: Privatization
- 08/08/12 Florida AFSCME Members Organize, Defeat Privatization Scheme North Miami Beach city council overwhelmingly voted down a plan to privatize sanitation services.
- 08/03/12 Win-win for Residents and Public Service Workers in California In a recent open competition over operation of a San Diego landfill, city workers won.
- 08/03/12 New York Members Speak Out Against Parking Meter Privatization Call for city workers to continue their effective job of raising more than $150 million/year in revenue.
- 07/30/12 Indiana Judge Condemns Privatization Taxpayers lose out when a plan to privatize the state’s welfare system ends in failure.
- 07/13/12 Cities in Default, a Mouthpiece in Denial Municipal bankruptcies give The Wall Street Journal another excuse to lie about public employees.
- 07/11/12 AFSCME Member Action Saves Florida’s Jackson Hospital Rapid mobilization spiked a hasty attempt to privatize the entire Miami-Dade Jackson Health System.
- 06/29/12 Muskogee City Employees Win Back Collective Bargaining Rights City council restores rights that were stripped away last spring.
- 05/30/12 North Miami Beach AFSCME Members Fight Sanitation Privatization Member mobilization, community outreach put the brakes on city manager's push to privatize sanitation services.
- 05/08/12 AFSCME Social Worker Rescues Infant 23-year social services veteran subdued mother to save wounded infant in Baltimore.
- 04/26/12 Jindal Bows to Public Pressure, Halts State Prison Sale Louisiana governor’s plan to sell a prison called off due to public outcry.
