Letters, Statements & More

• AFSCME President Lee Saunders on Nomination of Thomas E. Perez for Secretary of LaborStatement of AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders on nomination of Thomas E. Perez for Secretary of Labor
• AFSCME President Lee Saunders on Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis’ Resignation
• “AFSCME Members Will Stand with Walmart’s Workers”Statement of AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders on Walmart and Black Friday
• Meet Richard Hayes. He Picks Up Mitt Romney’s Trash.AFSCME launches campaign featuring public workers who service Mitt Romney’s La Jolla, Calif., neighborhood
• “Governor Scott Walker Rejected Again”Statement of AFSCME Wisconsin in response to the ruling by the Dane County Circuit Court Judge Juan Colas
• AFSCME’s Saunders on Chicago Teachers’ StrikeStatement of AFSCME President Lee Saunders on the strike by the Chicago Teachers’ Union
• AFSCME’s Saunders: Choice Between Obama-Biden and Romney-Ryan “Couldn’t Be Any Clearer”Statement of AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders following Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate
• AFSCME’s McEntee: “Daniels Wants a Return to the Spoils System”Statement of AFSCME Pres. Gerald W. McEntee regarding Gov. Mitch Daniels’ remarks on Fox News Sunday about public sector unions
• AFSCME’s McEntee: “This Struggle Is Far From Over”Statement of AFSCME Pres. Gerald W. McEntee on the recall election in Wisconsin
• AFSCME Wisconsin: Fight for Worker Rights Goes On
• AFSCME Remembers Mark Ayers, President of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO
• “Governor Scott Walker Has Egg On His Face”Statement of AFSCME Wisconsin in response to the ruling by the Federal Court in Wisconsin on Act 10
• AFSCME Calls for Congress to “Stop Their Games and Get to Work”Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee after Pres. Obama’s State of the Union address
• AFSCME’s McEntee on Recess AppointmentsStatement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee after President Obama made recess appointments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the National Labor Relations Board
• AFSCME’s McEntee: Overtime Pay Long Overdue for Nation’s 2.5 Million Home Care Workers
• AFSCME Letter to the U.S. House Opposing H.R. 3094
• Ohio Voters Repudiate Anti-Collective Bargaining LawAFSCME’s McEntee: “The 99% Are Pulling Together in a Main Street Movement”
• Labor Activists Defend Workers’ Rights for Milwaukee City Employees
• Romney Needs to “Take the Silver Spoon Out of His Mouth” Before Talking About the Working Middle ClassStatement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee in response to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s attack on labor and the working middle class
• GOP Leadership Jobs Agenda “Out-of-Touch with Reality”Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee regarding the House Republican leadership’s release of a jobs agenda
• AFSCME Challenges Constitutionality of Newly Enacted Arizona StatutesAnti-worker statutes would restrict the free-speech rights of unions
• “It Is Time to Create Jobs Instead of Destroying Them”Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on recent reports of increased state tax revenues
• AFSCME Statement on Proposals that Attack Federal Employee Income and Retirement Benefits
• Memphis Sanitation Strike Workers to Be Inducted into Labor Hall of FameSecretary of Labor to host ceremony on Friday, April 29, to begin induction of 1968 Memphis, Tenn., sanitation strike workers into Labor Hall of Fame
• Workers Memorial DayStatement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on Workers Memorial Day
• From Memphis to Madison, the Struggle Continues for Workers’ Rights “Work That Serves Humanity… It Has Dignity and It Has Worth.”
• Acclaimed Documentary “At the River I Stand” Available for We Are One Events Free of ChargeAward-winning film chronicles Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Journey and the 1968 AFSCME Sanitation Workers Strike.
• Ohio Bill “A Reprehensible Attack on the Middle Class” Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee regarding Ohio SB 5, legislation to silence the voice of public service workers and limit their right to collective bargaining
• Governor Walker is “Tearing Wisconsin Apart”Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee in response to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s anti-union rights bill that was rammed through the state senate
• Wisconsin Public Employees: Ramming Through Anti-Freedom Bill “An Affront to Democracy”On Wednesday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Republican state senators rammed through an anti-freedom bill that stripped nurses, teachers and EMTs of their rights to collectively bargain – the rights enjoyed by just about every other Wisconsinite.
• Janice Bobholz Testimony to House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee
• Poland’s Solidarność Union Tells Wisconsin Workers: “Your Victory is Our Victory as Well”
• “Pillars of a Civil Society”National Civil Rights, Labor Leaders Speak Out on Behalf of Public Service Workers
• Martin Luther King and Public EmployeesStatement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee to commemorate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday