Stand Up for the Middle Class
State and local governments must find balanced solutions to budget challenges, recognizing that state employees and services have already taken big cuts and further reductions will cause the most harm – both to state residents and to the state’s economic recovery. It’s time to have smarter government that best meets the needs of our communities.
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- Nov 08Ohio Voters Repudiate Anti-Collective Bargaining LawAFSCME’s McEntee: “The 99% Are Pulling Together in a Main Street Movement”
- Sep 30Labor Activists Defend Workers’ Rights for Milwaukee City Employees
- Sep 08President Obama Is Right: We Need Jobs Right NowStatement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee in response to the American Jobs Act outlined by President Obama
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Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN): People ought to be scared
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels was chosen to deliver the response to the State of the Union. Here's why that's so scary.
Fighting Back
2011 was a pivotal year for the working middle class. It started with the scapegoating of public service workers for the country's economic woes, and continued with unprecedented attacks on...
Think Again: Taking Back Ohio
With the astonishing defeat of Gov. Kasich's extreme anti-worker Senate Bill 5, working families in the Buckeye State made history and told corporate-backed politicians to think again. Hear the story...
From Wisconsin to Wall Street
Public service worker Tim Birkley travels to New York City from his hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. He explores the connection between the February occupation of his capitol by thousands of...
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- Feb 10 Walker’s Attack on Wisconsin Values Anything But Progressive Setting the facts straight about Scott Walker's real record as governor. (Blog)
- Feb 10 Collective Bargaining Rights Upheld in SD Legislative effort defeated by activists from Council 59 and other supporters of workers’ rights. (Blog)
- Feb 10 Kasich Fails to Address the Real State of His State AFSCME Council 8 activists demonstrate during Ohio governor’s State-of-the-State address (Blog)
- Feb 07 Arizona Workers Brace for Battle State legislators move quickly to pass several anti-worker bills. (Blog)
- Feb 07 Building Worker Strength in Lean Times AFSCME union in Florida grows in the face of a tough economic climate. (Blog)
- Feb 03 Right-To-Tweet-For-Workers #superbowledition The Twittersphere responds to right-to-work-for-less law in the Super Bowl state. (Blog)
- Feb 02 Volunteer Member Organizers Head Out in Tulsa, Okla. City employees organize against privatization and anti-worker threats. (Blog)
- Feb 02 N.H. Gov. Lynch Stands Up for Public Employees In State of the State address, governor vows to block threats to collective bargaining. (Blog)
- Feb 01 Indiana Workers Speak Out Against ‘Right-to-Work-for-Less’ Bill Gov. Mitch Daniels disregarded workers’ views when he signed the bill. (Blog)
- Jan 31 S.D. Workers’ Collective Bargaining Rights Safe – For Now Sponsor of anti-worker bill changes mind, but the bill is not dead yet. (Blog)
- Jan 31 Florida Public Safety for Sale Republican state Sen. Mike Fasano speaks out against a bill to privatize Florida's prisons. (Blog)
- Jan 25 ‘Our Democracy is Not for Sale’ Arizona retirees, public service workers and community activists protest undue influence of corporate special interests.... (Blog)
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- Feb 01 Florida Prisons Bill Would Expand Private Management, Netting A Big Win For Political Contributors State could hand over a major slice of its prison system to private, for-profit businesses.... (Huffington Post)
- Dec 13 Don't blame government workers' pensions The big players on Wall Street have devastated our economy and our retirement savings. (USA Today)
- Dec 12 Sharpton's Jobs March Hits 25 Cities on Same Day Sharpton and his organization, the National Action Network, along with partners such as AFSCME, held... (The Root)
- Nov 18 How Progressives Won the Labor Rights Showdown in Ohio To understand how progressives pulled off this remarkable win, I spoke with Paul Booth, one... (Truthout)
- Nov 13 Public Service Workers Are Helping to Cut Taxpayer Costs Union members are pulling together to find real solutions to our economic problems. (Wall Street Journal)
- Nov 10 What the Ohio vote means Voters will not tolerate unnecessary cuts to vital programs and attacks on working families. (Reuters)
- Sep 27 State Worker Benefits Threatened as U.S. Supercommittee Considers Cuts A congressional supercommittee is seeking another $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction, which may cut deeply... (Bloomberg)
- Aug 03 The ALEC Cabal: How Influence Peddlers Undermine Democracy Corporate lobbyists work secretly with right-wing state legislators to draft far-reaching legislation. (Firedoglake)
- Aug 02 Fewer cops, more potholes: How debt deal could hit states hardest The debt-and-deficit bill will slash aid to states already reeling from the recession. (Christian Science Monitor )
- Jul 09 Idled Minn. public employees holding on -- for now Nation’s longest state government shutdown in a decade poses challenges for 22,000 public workers. (Associated Press)
- Jun 23 Austerity Is Already Here, and It's Killing the Recovery State and local government spending has already declined, dampening growth and hiring. (The Atlantic)
- Jun 22 Memphis saves jobs of union championed by King Sanitation workers score a victory as city council passes budget without privatizing solid waste collection.... (Associated Press)
