AFSCME Union Break
From Cairo to Madison to Occupy Wall Street, the world's 99% are pulling together to face our challenges and build a better future. Looking for a way to make a...
Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN): People ought to be scared
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels was chosen to deliver the response to the State of the Union. Here's why that's so scary.
Fighting Back
2011 was a pivotal year for the working middle class. It started with the scapegoating of public service workers for the country's economic woes, and continued with unprecedented attacks on...
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: 75 Years of AFSCME
A powerful video featuring key moments in the history of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), including the union's organizing campaigns, fights to protect Social Security...
- May 09 Marriage Equality Matters for Workers President Obama endorses same-sex marriage to level the playing field for LGBT working families. (Blog)
- May 08 AFSCME Social Worker Rescues Infant 23-year social services veteran subdued mother to save wounded infant in Baltimore. (Blog)
- May 08 Bill Press: ‘The Conservative Stranglehold on Morning Cable news Television in America Is Over.’ Host of The Bill Press Show talks about Current TV’s role in today’s political environment.... (Blog)
- May 07 Honor Nurses by Supporting Nurse-Patient Staffing Bill National Nurses Week is a time to honor nurses by helping them. (Blog)
- May 04 Public Pension Opponents Argue from Both Sides to Distort Truth Dean Baker contends that politicians are “using heaping doses of the politics of envy" to... (Blog)
- May 04 AFSCME Celebrates National Correctional Officers and Employees Week Honoring the tens of thousands of AFSCME members across the country who keep our communities... (Blog)
- May 03 New England EMS Workers on Their Way to Joining AFSCME EMS workers in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire file for a union election. (Blog)
- May 03 Maryland Workers Win Expansion of Collective Bargaining Workers in four previously excluded agencies now enjoy collective bargaining rights. (Blog)
- May 03 Governor LePage’s Mean Words Maine’s first-term governor steps up his anti-worker rhetoric, adding to his string of outlandish statements.... (Blog)
- May 02 San Diego Businesses Speak Out Against Threat to Retirement Security from Proposition B The measure is being used to score political points at the expense of city employees.... (Blog)
- May 02 Missouri Home Care Providers Win Historic Court Ruling Vote by 13,000 workers for representation with AFSCME upheld by Court of Appeals. (Blog)
- May 02 Retirees Organize 1,300 in Puerto Rico Joint organizing campaign signs up retired public employees for automatic dues deduction with AFSCME. (Blog)
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