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Minnesota’s Walker Methodist Employees Win First Contract
After five long, difficult years struggling for justice, some 400 employees of Walker Methodist Health Center in Minneapolis can finally claim victory – their first contract!
Contract Workers Win Fight to Become UC Davis Employees
Nearly 200 contracted-out food service workers at the University of California at Davis have won their lengthy battle to become full-time UC employees.
AFSCME PA Council 13 Launches ‘Operation Veterans Hope’
Thermal clothing, computer game consoles, a large-screen television and other items were donated April 8 to residents of the Southeastern Veterans Center in Spring City, Pennsylvania.
AFSCME Members Tell NYC: ‘Save Our Day Care’
Thousands of New York City day care workers represented by DC 1707 are fighting to save their municipally operated centers from the budget ax.
School Custodians Say ‘No’ to Aramark
Members of Connecticut Council 4 and their supporters rally to demand that the New Haven school system stop contracting out work that has been outsourced to privateer Aramark for the last 12 years.
Oklahoma Municipal Workers Win Historic First Contracts
Some 700 employees of the cities of Enid and Lawton have won first contracts under a 2004 state law championed by AFSCME all the way to the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
Ohio Child Care Providers Vote AFSCME ‘YES’
More than 8,000 in-home Ohio child care providers have overwhelmingly voted for Child Care Providers Together (CCPT)/Ohio Council 8 as their union.
University of California Local 3299 Members Protest for Fair Wages
Thousands of University of California employees and their supporters demonstrated at campuses in San Francisco and Los Angeles on April 3 to highlight the fact that they had been working without a contract since early last year.
University Employees ‘Rally for Fairness’ in Philadelphia
Temple University employees held a campus rally to pressure administrators to stop demanding an unfair and discriminatory performance-based pay scheme.
Houston Municipal Workers Win Historic Contract
More than 13,000 Houston city employees, represented by HOPE/AFSCME Local 57, have won the first-ever contract between a Texas city and its non-uniform civilian workforce.
Kansas Child Care Providers Lobby State Lawmakers
About 100 family child care providers went to Topeka seeking an increase in subsidy rates that have not been raised since 2002.
Indiana Scraps State Hospital Privatization
Plans to outsource the jobs at three state hospitals where employees are represented by AFSCME Council 62 were formally dropped last month.
California Nurses Vote to Join UNAC/UHCP
Some 260 RNs at Parkview Community Hospital Medical Center in Riverside have voted overwhelmingly to join United Nurses Associations of California/UHCP/NUHHCE (UNAC).
New York Child Care Providers Win Election
Some 17,000 child care providers across New York state voted overwhelmingly to form a union and join CSEA/Child Care Providers Together – New York (CCPT-NY/CSEA).
MD Home Care Providers Vote for AFSCME
More than 4,000 home care providers throughout the state voted overwhelmingly to make AFSCME their union, joining more than 80,000 other providers nationwide.
Rochester NY Workers Honored for Heroism
Three Rochester environmental services employees have been honored for rescuing eight adults and a child from a burning apartment building last November.
Arkansas AFSCME Members Win Major Court Decision
A U.S. appellate court has ruled that the city of Benton must continue to pay city employees’ retiree health benefits, which had been dropped in 2004.
AFSCME to Congress: Reform or Repeal GPO & WEP Laws
Joseph Rugola, executive director of OAPSE/AFSCME Local 4, called on Congress to repeal or reform federal laws that are cutting into the retirement benefits of hundreds of thousands of retired public employees.
Another AFSCME First Responder Dies of 9/11-Linked Illness
New York EMS Lt. Brian Ellicott, a member of Paramedics and Emergency Medical Technicians Local 3621 (DC 37), was just 45 years old when he passed away last November.
8,000 Ohio Child Care Providers Gain Rights
Executive order signed Feb. 1 by Gov. Ted Strickland gives in-home day care providers a historic opportunity to gain a voice on the job.

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