Secretary-Treasurer Lee A. Saunders
- Apr 04 They stood their ground for respect The Memphis sanitation workers' strike and its aftermath continue to inspire AFSCME today.
- Mar 14 Saunders: We Must Build a Main Street Movement In radio appearances nationwide, Sec.-Treas. Lee Saunders talked about AFSCME’s history — and its future.
- Mar 02 New Mexico’s Workers Join Main Street Movement Our Main Street movement echoes New Mexico’s motto: “It grows as it goes.”
- Feb 29 Working Families Targeted in Michigan Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is using the economic mess Wall Street created as a smokescreen to dismantle public services and destroy workers' rights.
- Feb 17 Asserting a Claim on Democracy As we observe Black History Month, AFSCME members are taking part in a Main Street movement.
- Jan 16 Martin Luther King Jr., the labor movement and the American dream Dr. King often spoke of the links between the struggle for workers' rights and the cause of civil rights.
- Jan 16 Economic Justice Key Part of Dream Dr. King recognized that civil rights and workers’ rights are intertwined.
- Jan 13 Killing Pensions to Benefit the 1 Percent The Wall Street Journal continues its push to gut the retirement security of millions of middle class workers across the country while enriching Wall Street.
- Jan 02 California pension system not in crisis Despite those who claim otherwise, the sky is not falling on the California pension system.
- Nov 08 Ohio Vote: We Won't Be Misled, Fooled or Led Astray Senate Bill 5 is the right wing's attack on public-sector workers and public services.
- Nov 07 Ohio's Issue 2 hurts African-Americans most In Ohio and around the country, one-fifth of all public-sector employees are African-American.
- Oct 18 Energized for the Fight Even in the face of short-term defeats, AFSCME sisters and brothers have been resilient.
- Aug 23 Revive the Dream The dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is an opportunity to renew our commitments to fight for social and economic justice.
- Jul 25 Undermining the Right to Vote New requirements will keep students, minorities and seniors from having their voices heard.
- Jun 14 Prison Privatization as Political Payback Taxpayers wind up paying more when private contractors cut corners on safety, health and services.
- Jun 01 The Main Street Movement Fights over budgets, pensions and public services are really a battle for the American Dream.
- May 03 Threat to Blacks in the Public Sector Radical conservative politicians want to slash city, county and state jobs — and undercut economic security.
- Mar 10 An Affront to Democracy Wisconsin Senate Republicans used legislative tricks to ram through Governor Walker's bill — wiping out collective bargaining rights for nurses, teachers, EMTs and other trusted public employees.
- Jan 01 Collective Bargaining is Key to a Prosperous Economy In several states, ultraconservative legislatures and governors, claiming to be focused on jobs creation and restoring the middle class, are advocating laws that would actually kill jobs and continue the downward slide of working families.
- Dec 02 Stop Believing the Myths About 401(k) Plans The former publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote a column this week calling public employee pensions “grotesque shadows of their initial good intention” and pushing private savings plans as the future of retirement.
- Oct 07 Protecting Our Jobs and Our Pensions In 2010, we are confronting unprecedented challenges and right-wing attacks that test our ability to stand up for the services we provide and represent our union’s core values. As Secretary-Treasurer, I’m honored to fight alongside you.
- Sep 28 America's Failed 401(k) Experiment While the unfunded pension liabilities in many public retirement funds have received an inordinate amount of attention, the larger retirement deficit of most Americans is not generating the level of concern that it deserves.
- Aug 25 New Jersey's Pension Fraud Hurts Investors, Taxpayers and Retirees Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission did something it has never done before. It charged the state of New Jersey with fraudulently misleading investors about the health of the state's pension plan
- 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 [...]
- Jul 12 United We Move Forward A message from AFSCME's new International Secretary-Treasurer Lee A. Saunders.
