Category: State & Local Budgets
- 08/08/12 Florida AFSCME Members Organize, Defeat Privatization Scheme North Miami Beach city council overwhelmingly voted down a plan to privatize sanitation services.
- 08/06/12 Michigan ‘Local Dictators’ Law Will Go On Ballot for Citizen Vote AFSCME-led coalition pushes for 200,000 petition signers’ voices to be heard.
- 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.
- 08/02/12 Study Links Good Jobs and Bargaining Power New study from CEPR blames decline of good jobs on workers’ deteriorating bargaining power.
- 08/02/12 Don't Blame Union for Bankrupt Cities Saunders: Scapegoating public workers does not address the real problems facing cities across the country.
- 08/01/12 Lexington, Ky., Sanitation Workers Win Vote to Unionize with AFSCME Newest members of Council 62 look forward to having an increased say on the job.
- 07/30/12 Indiana Judge Condemns Privatization Taxpayers lose out when a plan to privatize the state’s welfare system ends in failure.
- 07/23/12 HBO Show “Newsroom” Spotlights Scott Walker’s Attack on Bargaining In the latest episode of HBO’s drama, fictional news anchor reports on the Wisconsin uprising.
- 07/20/12 Fighting Back Against ‘Local Dictators’ in Michigan State Supreme Court will hear arguments on ballot access from both sides on July 25.
- 07/12/12 California Governor Signs Budget with No New Cuts to Home Care Jerry Brown enacts financial plan with no reduction in In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS).
