President Gerald W. McEntee
- Apr 17 Let’s Get Women Out of the Red Women are bearing the brunt of attacks on workers from corporate-backed politicians nationwide.
- Jan 27 Mitt Romney and the 1% If they have their way, Mitt Romney and the wealthiest people in America won't have to release their tax returns. They won't even have to file.
- Dec 14 Don't blame government workers' pensions The big players on Wall Street have devastated our economy and our retirement savings.
- Nov 14 Public Service Workers Are Helping to Cut Taxpayer Costs Union members are pulling together to find real solutions to our economic problems.
- Nov 11 What the Ohio vote means Voters will not tolerate unnecessary cuts to vital programs and attacks on working families.
- Nov 04 Reflecting on Our Great Achievements An open letter from President McEntee to the members of AFSCME.
- Oct 18 The Birth of a Main Street Movement Every AFSCME member has the ability to make a difference during these challenging times.
- Oct 06 Why the GOP Won’t Vote on the American Jobs Act Putting more people to work is the last thing House Republicans want to accomplish.
- Sep 09 We Remember Ten years later, one is still moved by the memory of the many public employees who put their lives in danger in the days following September 11, 2001.
- Aug 31 America’s Future Is at Stake this Labor Day Working families will not turn back the clock. We will fight for the future.
- Aug 03 The ALEC Cabal: How Influence Peddlers Undermine Democracy Corporate lobbyists work secretly with right-wing state legislators to draft far-reaching legislation.
- Jul 14 Why Unemployment Makes the Tea Party Happy Tea party Republicans see political benefit from increasing unemployment with Pres. Obama at the helm.
- Jun 18 Cuomo and Pensions: A View From a Union Leader Pension costs grew due to the financial crisis, not because benefit levels are too high.
- Jun 01 The Main Street Movement Fights over budgets, pensions and public services are really a battle for the American Dream.
- May 26 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
- May 24 NY Vote a “Rebuke Against Schemes to Shred American Safety Net” Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee in response to Kathy Hochul's victory in the special election in New York's 26th Congressional District
- Apr 13 “Surefire Way to Balance the Budget is to Create Jobs” Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee in response to President Obama’s speech on fiscal responsibility
- Mar 25 The Centenary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and the Need to Organize March 25 marks the 100th anniversary of a tragic, pivotal moment in history, when 146 mostly young New York garment workers, all but 17 female, died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
- Mar 21 McEntee on Gov. Walker's Anti-Worker Power Grab Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker made no mention of the massive $117 million in tax breaks he provided for wealthy corporations before he launched his power grab to silence the voices of working men and women.
- Mar 07 Stopping the Lies
- Feb 24 Continuing the Fight for Freedom The tens of thousands of Wisconsinites who have marched at the state Capitol and throughout the state this past week are American heroes. It is not often that thousands gather to fight for the dignity and the rights of their fellow citizens.
- Feb 16 Gagging Workers Is Un-American As the world watched the people of Egypt take to the streets in an effort to exercise their rights and have their voices heard, here at home in the USA, plans are being put into place to silence workers, lower their wages, cut their benefits [...]
- Jan 28 Responding to Wall Street Journal Attacks
- Jan 19 Pres. McEntee: Blame Wall Street A defense of public services and our pensions by AFSCME Pres. Gerald W. McEntee was featured on the opinion page of USA Today this week.
- Jan 01 Public Service Workers Under the Worst Attacks Ever Before the fall elections, our union was already facing great fiscal and political pressures. After the elections were over, we knew the anti-worker candidates who won in many states and the U.S. House of Representatives would make our situation worse.
- Nov 23 Pre-Thanksgiving GOP Vote: Disgusting
- Nov 03 Voters Want a Recovery That Works for Everyone “Angry voters sent a clear message on Tuesday: Much, much more must be done to put America back to work. But voters rejected right-wing and Tea Party candidates [...]
- Oct 29 What's at Stake Tuesday The conventional wisdom in Washington right now is that the Republicans are about to take back the House, and possibly the Senate.
- Oct 27 Setting the Record Straight On October 12th, columnist David Brooks attacked public employees with incorrect facts, misplaced blame and shortsighted policy prescriptions. In response, Pres. McEntee sent the following letter to The New York Times to set the record straight [...]
- Oct 07 A Referendum on Working America In August, our work led to passage of the Jobs Bill, a huge victory that will keep hundreds of thousands of Americans — in both the private and public sectors — working.
- Sep 24 The GOP’s Bizarre and Cynical “Pledge to America” One can only marvel at the extreme cynicism evident in the Republican Party's bizarre 21-page "Pledge to America." The document is only the tip of the iceberg and masks the real agenda of Republican leaders.
- Aug 16 Standing Up for American Jobs According to a CNN poll released last week, 60% of Americans support legislation recently passed by Congress to save hundreds of thousands of jobs that were on the chopping block.
- Aug 10 A Tremendous Victory for Working People Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on House passage of the Jobs Bill:
- Aug 04 The Senate's Bold Step Forward Today, the U.S. Senate took a bold step forward in the effort to protect jobs and bolster America's economic recovery. The Senate, by a 61 to 38 margin, overcame the filibuster opposing H.R. 1586 [...]
- Aug 02 Call Your Senators Today to Protect a Million Jobs Earlier this year, Democrats in the Senate tried three times to pass legislation that would help states deal with growing Medicaid rolls, the joint federal-state health care program for the poor.
- Jul 23 Poll: Americans Want Jobs By a 64-30 margin, Americans think reducing unemployment is more important than deficit reduction according to a Quinnipiac poll released on Thursday.
- Jul 21 Pres. McEntee Talks Jobs, Midterms with Bill Press Wednesday morning on the Bill Press Radio Show, AFSCME Pres. Gerald W. McEntee talked P-O-L-I-T-I-C-S during a segment covering topics ranging from the extension of unemployment benefits, legislation to give public safety workers [...]
- Jul 01 Face to Face: President McEntee on Reform AFSCME was on the frontlines during the health care battles in the early 1990s — it was the right thing to do then, and over the years the need for reform became even more compelling.
- Jun 28 McEntee Pledges to Hold Politicians Accountable President Gerald W. McEntee used his keynote address at the 2010 AFSCME Convention to demand that Congress pass a critical jobs bill — and that politicians be held accountable for their promises to working people.
- Jun 23 More Jobs = Less Debt In the worst economy since the Great Depression, far too many Americans are out of work. Despite the rising fears of more job losses, the Senate is refusing to do what is necessary to protect and create jobs.
- May 24 The Assault on Public Employees For more than a generation, America's working families have been under a constant assault from the CEO's and extraordinarily wealthy members of our society. While median incomes in the U.S. have stagnated since the mid-1970's, [...]
- May 14 It’s Time to Hold Wall Street Accountable Almost two years have passed since the taxpayers of America gave the titans of Wall Street more than $700 billion to keep the world’s economic system from plunging into another world-wide Great Depression.
- May 04 Pensions: The Sky Is Not Falling Whenever the economy is in dire straits, pundits and demagogues start looking for scapegoats. An all-time favorite is the myth of public employees and their allegedly fat – yet underfunded – pensions.
- Mar 26 A Remarkable Achievement AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee’s statement on the final passage of the health care reconciliation bill.
- Mar 24 Cows on the Track Michael Steele, the hapless chairman of the Republican National Committee, was asked a while back by Fox News how he would stop health care reform. “I will be the cow on the track,” he answered.
- Mar 21 A Monumentally Important Victory for Our Country AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee released the following statement regarding the historic vote for health care reform in the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Mar 16 This Is the Week This is the week we’ve been waiting for. This is the week when Democrats in Congress can prove that it is still possible for our political institutions to stand with the American people in a time of crisis.
- Mar 01 Making History! The historic march vote by the U.S. House of Representatives helped break the power of the insurance industry and provide quality, affordable health care for millions of American families.
- Feb 02 Time to End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee released the following statement regarding President Obama’s efforts to end the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy:
- Jan 29 George F. Will Is Not to Be Trusted Conservative columnist George F. Will never misses an opportunity to distort the facts in an effort to spread untruths about issues of importance to working Americans.
