2006 Press Releases
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Dec 13
40,000 Child Care Providers Join AFSCME and UAW To Strengthen Child Care for Michigan's Families
Providers prepare for first-ever bargaining session to improve home-based child care
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Nov 08
Working People Win Big
Statement from AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on Election 2006 Results
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Oct 04
McEntee Assails Shameless NLRB Decision to Deprive Millions of Workers of Union Rights
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Sep 22
Ninth Circuit Ruling Upholds Law Preventing Employers From Spending Taxpayer Dollars to Fight Unionization
McEntee: "Union-busting Is Not a Legitimate Use of Taxpayer Dollars"
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Sep 07
McEntee Calls 2nd Circuit Ruling "Holy Grail" of Corporate Governance Reform
Federal Court Decision Gives Shareholders Meaningful Voice In Board Elections
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Sep 06
McEntee: "Joining A Union Should Not Be Hazardous To Your Job Health"
DLC Joins AFSCME, Labor Groups In Championing Employee Free Choice Act
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Aug 08
AFSCME Delegates Pass 21st Century Initiative
Bold reform plan will power public union’s political action program, fund new organizing drives, open leadership institute, mobilize 40,000-member activist army
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Aug 03
Senate Minimum Wage Bill A "Cynical Ploy" To Secure Tax Break for the Super-Rich
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Jul 25
AFSCME to Launch New Organizing, Political Plan at Chicago Convention Aug. 7-11
AFL-CIO's largest union set to confront labor crisis with big changes
as members gather for largest town meeting in history of movement
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Jun 29
Shareholders to Home Depot Board: What Are You Trying To Hide?
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Jun 09
Shareholders Fight For Say On Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo's "Godzilla-size" Pay
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Jun 06
Privatizing Social Security: Still Just Plain Wrong
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May 31
Fourteen AFSCME Members and Families Win Coveted Union Plus Scholarships
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May 30
Supreme Court To Public Employees:'Your Conscience or Your Job'
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May 22
AFSCME Seeks To Hold Home Depot Board Accountable for Excessive Executive Pay
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May 10
AFSCME - UNA Salute America's Nurses: Leading Fight to Protect Nurses Voice at Work
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May 09
'Patients Bill of Wrongs' Is Enough to Make America Sick
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Apr 10
AFSCME President Supports Comprehensive Immigration Reform
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Apr 05
AFSCME Calls For Senate Hearing To Shine Spotlight On "Poster Child" for Nonprofit Hospital Abuses
Illinois-based Resurrection Health Care gets tax breaks while marking up charges for uninsured patients, cutting charity care, paying big CEO salary.
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Apr 04
AFSCME President Salutes Library Workers For Resiliency, Dedication 'Even in the Toughest Times'
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Mar 28
Morgan Stanley, AIM, Dreyfus, Alliance & Oppenheimer Complicit in Executive Pay Schemes Opposed by Shareholders
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Mar 16
Statement by AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on Passage of the Specter/Harkin Amendment
Bush and Allies in Congress Need To Get Their Priorities Straight
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Feb 22
AFSCME Recruits College Students to Become Union Organizers
Students Learn the Value of Union Membership
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Feb 06
Statement by AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on the New Bush Administration Budget
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Feb 06
Maryland Corrections Officers Host Lobby Day at State Capitol
COs Declare State of Emergency for Maryland's Prisons
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Jan 31
Statement by AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on President Bush's State of the Union address
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Jan 31
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on the Death of Coretta Scott King
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Jan 18
AFSCME Praises Democratic Leadership for Plan to Clean Up GOP-Led Government
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Jan 17
AFSCME and SEIU Launch Television Ad Campaign to Stop Health Care Cuts for Seniors
Television Ad Campaign Part of Month-Long Effort to Defeat GOP Budget Cuts in February 1 House Vote
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Jan 03
Bush Administration's Inadequate Pandemic Flu Plan Puts Health Workers, First Responders & Nation at Risk
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