2011 Press Releases
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Dec 15
AFSCME’s McEntee to Congress: Stop Playing Political Games and Help the Middle Class
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee in response to the continued debate on unemployment and payroll tax extension
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Dec 15
AFSCME’s McEntee: Overtime Pay Long Overdue for Nation’s 2.5 Million Home Care Workers
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Dec 06
AFSCME Endorses President Obama for Reelection
McEntee: “Obama is the only choice for the 99%”
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Dec 02
All the 99% Wants for Christmas Are Jobs
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee in response to employment numbers released by the U.S. Department of Labor
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Nov 21
Congress Must Now Refocus Their Energy on the Jobs Crisis
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee after the Congressional Super Committee failed to reach an agreement
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Nov 18
McEntee: Congressional Republicans Are Partying with the Tea Crowd while Working People Get Stuck with the Hangover
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee after the House of Representatives vote on a proposed Balanced Budget Amendment
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Nov 08
Ohio Voters Repudiate Anti-Collective Bargaining Law
AFSCME’s McEntee: “The 99% Are Pulling Together in a Main Street Movement”
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Nov 04
McEntee: It’s Time for Republicans in Congress to “Occupy Reality”
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee in response to employment numbers released by the U.S. Department of Labor
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Oct 28
Celebrating 75 Years of Solidarity with America’s Working Families
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Oct 13
Wisconsin Public Workers Deliver for Occupy Wall Street: Send Pizza in Solidarity
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Oct 13
AFSCME Launches New Ad Supporting American Jobs Act
“Podium” to Ask Viewers to Call Congress and Tell Them to Pass American Jobs Act Now
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Oct 07
AFSCME's McEntee: “Politicians Who Block Jobs Will be Out of Work Come November 2012”
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Oct 04
McEntee: Cantor “Just Doesn’t Get It” on Jobs
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) comment that the American Jobs Act is dead on arrival
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Oct 04
Main Street Movement Goes from Madison to Manhattan
AFSCME’s McEntee and Saunders: “From Wisconsin to New York, Working Families Say Rebuilding Main Street Should be Priority # 1”
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Sep 30
Labor Activists Defend Workers’ Rights for Milwaukee City Employees
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Sep 21
AFSCME Ad Greets Jobs Debate
“More Jobs Equal Less Debt” to Air in Orlando, Nationally
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Sep 19
AFSCME’s McEntee: Millionaires’ Tax “Welcome News,” But Congress Must Pass Jobs Bill Now
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee in regards to President Obama’s Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction
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Sep 15
AFSCME’s McEntee to Congressional Republicans: Get Out of Jail Free Card Doesn’t Create Jobs
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Sep 14
AFSCME Plan to Goldman Sachs: Adopt Independent Board Chair
Proposal seeks removal of CEO Lloyd Blankfein as Chairman of Board
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Sep 13
McEntee: Study Confirms “Privatization Is a Recipe for Disaster”
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Sep 12
Romney Needs to “Take the Silver Spoon Out of His Mouth” Before Talking About the Working Middle Class
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee in response to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s attack on labor and the working middle class
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Sep 08
President Obama Is Right: We Need Jobs Right Now
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee in response to the American Jobs Act outlined by President Obama
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Sep 08
AFSCME Reflects on 9/11
New video features public service workers who answered the call
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Sep 02
Zero Gained, 15,000 Lost
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on employment numbers issued by the U.S. Department of Labor
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Aug 04
Statement of AFSCME Pres. McEntee on the Congressional Deal Reached to Fund the FAA
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Aug 01
Debt Ceiling Deal Is “Economic Malpractice”
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on the debt ceiling compromise
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Aug 01
AFSCME Members, Family Members Awarded Union Plus Scholarships
Union Plus provides $150,000 to help students from union families achieve their dreams
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Jul 29
Republican Leaders “Willfully Bring Us to Brink of Economic Turmoil”
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee in response to the U.S. House of Representatives vote on debt ceiling legislation
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Jul 29
TV Ads Launched in 8 States: “If the Social Security Checks, Veterans’ Benefits, Military Pay Americans Are Counting On Don’t Arrive After August 2, Thank Republicans in Congress”
Sen. Dean Heller, 7 GOP U.S. Reps. Implored: Stop Threatening Default and Holding the Interests of Ordinary Americans Hostage to Protect Tax Breaks for Millionaires, Oil Companies and Corporate Jet Owners
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Jul 25
FAA Employees Urge Immediate Action on FAA Furloughs
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Jul 23
GOP Leaders “End Charade,” Prove Only Interest Is to “Coddle Corporate Jet Owners While Sticking It to Everyone Else”
Statement of AFSCME Pres. McEntee in response to Republican leaders in Congress abdicating their responsibilities and demanding that working middle class Americans sacrifice even more to pay for the mistakes of Wall Street bankers
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Jul 20
Statement of AFSCME Pres. McEntee in response to “Gang of Six” proposal
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Jul 19
“A Stealth Attack on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid”
Statement of AFSCME Pres. McEntee in response to House Republicans passing their Cut, Cap and Kill Medicare bill
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Jul 08
Statement of AFSCME Pres. McEntee on the June Jobs Report
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Jul 07
“A Healthy Economy Is the Best Deficit Reduction Strategy”
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on debt ceiling negotiations
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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
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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
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May 24
AFSCME Challenges Constitutionality of Newly Enacted Arizona Statutes
Anti-worker statutes would restrict the free-speech rights of unions
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May 20
“Prison Industry Puts Profits Before Public Safety”
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on prison privatization
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May 17
“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
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May 17
AFSCME Statement on Proposals that Attack Federal Employee Income and Retirement Benefits
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May 17
Vanguard Tops List of Excessive CEO Pay Enablers
New Report Examines Mutual Fund Proxy Voting Patterns on Executive Compensation
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May 13
AFSCME Salutes Our Nation’s Law Enforcement Officers Who Serve Our Country with Valor and Distinction
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on National Law Enforcement Officers Week
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May 09
AFSCME and RAM Trust Urge Exxon Mobil Shareholders to Rein in CEO Pay, Implement Governance Improvements on May 25
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May 04
Report: “Making A Killing”
A new report exposes how the private prison industry thrives in a pay-to-play culture; making our communities less safe and more prone to violent crime
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May 03
RI Council 94, AFSCME Mourns the Loss of Joseph R. Peckham
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May 02
Statement of AFSCME Pres. McEntee on the Death of Osama Bin Laden
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May 02
“We Are Proud of the Work that Our Corrections Employees Do”
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on National Correctional Employees Week
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Apr 28
Workers Memorial Day
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on Workers Memorial Day
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Apr 28
Memphis Sanitation Strike Workers to Be Inducted into Labor Hall of Fame
Secretary of Labor to host ceremony on Friday, April 29, to begin induction of 1968 Memphis, Tenn., sanitation strike workers into Labor Hall of Fame
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Apr 27
AFSCME Urges Shareholders to Vote Against CEO Pay at Alcoa (AA) on May 6 and ConocoPhillips (COP) on May 11
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Apr 26
“Ancient History and of Limited Use”
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on the Pew Report on Pensions
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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
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Apr 11
AFSCME Urges Shareholders to Vote against Executive Compensation at Pfizer (PFE) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
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Apr 05
“Priorities That Are Out of Touch with Basic American Values”
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on the Ryan budget plan
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Apr 04
From Memphis to Madison, the Struggle Continues for Workers’ Rights
“Work That Serves Humanity… It Has Dignity and It Has Worth.”
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Apr 01
Acclaimed Documentary “At the River I Stand” Available for We Are One Events Free of Charge
Award-winning film chronicles Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Journey and the 1968 AFSCME Sanitation Workers Strike.
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Mar 31
Balanced Budget Amendment "A Recipe for Economic Disaster"
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on the Senate introduction of a balanced budget constitutional amendment
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Mar 30
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
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Mar 23
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
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Mar 09
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.
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Mar 02
AFSCME Calls on Speaker Boehner to Stop Using Violent Metaphors and Demonizing Public Employees
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Feb 25
Poland’s Solidarność Union Tells Wisconsin Workers: “Your Victory is Our Victory as Well”
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Feb 11
“Pillars of a Civil Society”
National Civil Rights, Labor Leaders Speak Out on Behalf of Public Service Workers
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Feb 02
GOP Senators Side with Insurance Industry, Not Working Americans
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on the Senate’s vote on Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act
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Jan 31
Judge Vinson’s Ruling Takes Benefits From Working Families
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on Judge Roger Vinson’s ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act
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Jan 31
Investors Issue Call for Annual Vote on Executive Pay
Today 39 institutional investors, issued a public call for companies to support an annual advisory vote on executive compensation in their spring proxy statements and for investors to vote for annual “Say on Pay” votes.
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Jan 24
AFSCME Employees Pension Plan Announces 27 Shareholder Proposals
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO (AFSCME) Employees Pension Plan, today announced its 27 proposals for greater transparency concerning risk, director accountability and independent board leadership.
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Jan 14
Martin Luther King and Public Employees
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee to commemorate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
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Jan 10
AFSCME Decries Anti-government Attacks
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee regarding the shootings on Saturday in Tucson, Ariz.
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