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AFSCME WORKS Online Xtras
Up-to-date news for the web from AFSCME WORKS Magazine.
 Lettie Oliver’s Life Honored with Books U.S. Rep. André Carson joined with family, friends and colleagues of the late Lettie Oliver, associate director of Council 62, to honor her memory with a collection of books focusing on women in the labor movement.  AFSCME Member Rescues Mom, Kids Don Machacek, a member of Local 2792 (Council 5) who works for the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Freeway Incident Response Safety Team, believes the risk he took to rescue a family of three was not a big deal.  Maryland Home Care Providers Win First Contract Rights In their second victory since voting to join AFSCME Council 67 in 2008, approximately 4,500 independent home care providers throughout Maryland now have a contract that will help improve the conditions of their work and the services they offer. In Memoriam AFSCME is mourning six public employees who were killed on the job this year in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico.  Kansas Workers Win Budget Battle Members of the Kansas Organization of State Employees (KOSE) AFT/AFSCME Local 300 stopped a move by conservative legislators to pass a budget that would have cut 1,000 jobs and furloughed thousands of state workers. New Jersey Unions Protest Budget Cuts Thousands of AFSCME members joined with other union members recently and sent a strong message to lawmakers: Stop assaulting the middle class! Stop benefiting the rich!  Pass Jobs Bill, McEntee Urges Lawmakers AFSCME International Pres. Gerald W. McEntee joins Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) in calling for immediate passage of the American Jobs and Closing Loopholes Act of 2010.    AFSCME Marchers Demand City Save Childcare Centers New York City day care and Head Start employees represented by District Council 1707 are building public support to stop the city from closing facilities this June and displacing some 1,800 children.  AFSCME Leads AFL-CIO in Growth for 2009 AFSCME, the AFL-CIO’s largest and most powerful union, demonstrated last year that its organizing strength is still unmatched, recording the greatest growth among all the federation’s 57 national and international labor unions compared to 2008. In Memoriam AFSCME is mourning the passing of three leaders who dedicated themselves to improving the lives of workers. CSEA Wins Class Action Settlement for Retirees New York’s Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)/AFSCME Local 1000 has won a settlement on behalf of 1,600 retired Westchester County employees, ending a six-year legal dispute over their health insurance benefits.   Citizens ‘Arrest’ Insurance Reps Hundreds of AFSCME members joined thousands of demonstrators in the nation’s capital this week for a “mass citizens’ arrest” of health insurance executives who are planning to defeat health care reform legislation now before Congress.
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