Category: Public Works
- 07/03/12 AFSCME members are on the frontlines of Minnesota flood recovery After record rainfall unleashed flash floods in Duluth late last month, AFSCME city, county and state workers labored around the clock to rescue stranded residents, barricade washed-out or flooded roads, and clear blocked highways.
- 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.
- 04/02/12 Austin Sanitation Workers Featured in ‘Trash Dance’ Documentary Film captures the beauty and grace in garbage trucks and the workers who pick up our trash.
- 11/16/11 Remembering Taylor Rogers Former AFSCME Local 1733 president led the historic 1968 sanitation workers strike in Memphis.
- 09/28/11 AFSCME Members Collect Toys for Children Who Lost Everything to Tropical Storm Lee The members of Local 3718 hope the toys will help children cope with the disaster.
- 08/30/11 AFSCME Member Killed on the Job in Tragic Accident A Pennsylvania sewer worker, Larry Fisher, is killed in a workplace accident in Delaware County.
- 06/30/11 Standing Up for Public Service Workers in San Diego Sec.-Treas. Saunders and Rev. Sharpton speak out against right-wing attacks on city employees.
- 05/02/11 Video: Memphis Comes to Washington Eight of the original 1968 Memphis sanitation strikers attended an induction ceremony in Washington, DC.
- 04/29/11 Pres. Obama Meets with Memphis Sanitation Workers Participants in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike met with Pres. Obama in the White House.
- 04/28/11 Memphis Sanitation Workers to Join U.S. “Labor Hall of Fame” Department of Labor to honor AFSCME Local 1733 members from the famous 1968 strike.
