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- Sep 08 AFSCME Reflects on 9/11 New video features public service workers who answered the call (Press Release)
- Sep 08 Remembering the `invisible workers’ of 9/11 On AFSCME's video remembrance of the workers who rose to the call of duty that... (Washington Post)
- Jul 08 Statement of AFSCME Pres. McEntee on the June Jobs Report
- Jul 07 “A Healthy Economy Is the Best Deficit Reduction Strategy” Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on debt ceiling negotiations (Press Release)
- Jun 02 Ordinary workers took extraordinary stand, made history Memphis sanitation strike an important turning point in the fight for civil rights, workplace equality... (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
- May 02 Statement of AFSCME Pres. McEntee on the Death of Osama Bin Laden
- Apr 28 Workers Memorial Day Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on Workers Memorial Day (Press Release)
- Apr 12 Countering the Siege AFSCME President McEntee on how attacks on public service workers have energized union members and... (New York Times)
- Dec 09 Republicans Block Workers’ Rights, Social Security, Mine Safety Bills Living up to its reputation as the party of “No,” Republican lawmakers stalled collective bargaining... (AFL-CIO Now Blog)
- May 26 Utah Opens State's First Satellite Emergency Department There's no hospital attached to the new Lone Peak Emergency Center, but the freestanding emergency... (Salt Lake Tribune)
- Mar 01 Killer Buildings Here at Home Are a 'Predictable Surprise' As the Chile earthquake shows, even though there may be strong building codes many older... (Emergency Management)
- Feb 18 Free, Handheld Reference Adds Situational Awareness at HAZMAT Incidents The Chemical Companion is a Windows-based reference of 130 of the most common chemicals involved... (Emergency Management)
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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...
State Battles Summit: Pres. McEntee Keynote
AFSCME Pres. Gerald W. McEntee delivered the opening keynote address at AFSCME's State Battles Summit, three days of intense education about fighting the unprecedented right-wing attacks on public service workers...
Wisconsin 2/16: Fire Fighters in Solidarity
Wisconsin fire fighters stand alongside their union sisters and brothers to fight the attack on workers' rights.
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- Feb 07 From New York to California, EMS Workers Uniting for Strength Uniformed EMTs and paramedics from FDNY join forces with their peers in Northern California. (Blog)
- Jul 19 New Haven 911 Dispatcher Saves Drowning Boy Emergency center worker directed family members to perform CPR until paramedics arrived on the scene.... (Blog)
- May 31 The Main Street Movement Fights over budgets, pensions and public services are really a battle for the American Dream. (AFSCME Works Magazine)
- Dec 17 9/11 First Responders React to the Senate Filibuster On Thursday's episode of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart blasted the Republican filibuster of... (Blog)
- Mar 01 Haiti - We Were There Saving A Life - Paramedic Marco Girao of the New York Fire Department and a member of Local 3621 (DC 37), treats a survivor who was rescued from a collapsed building. (AFSCME Works Magazine)
- Mar 01 Alaska - Reaching Out to Their Community The officers and dispatchers of the Ketchikan Police Department are serving coffee. Actually, these members are raising money for charity by selling “All Jacked Up,” a special blend of java blended just for them. (AFSCME Works Magazine)
- Mar 01 New York – 9/11-Linked Illness Claims Another First Responder Once again, a first responder to the disaster that befell this city and the nation on Sept. 11, 2001, has died of cancer linked—his family and former colleagues are confident—to the effects of the toxic air he breathed at Ground Zero. (AFSCME Works Magazine)
- Feb 06 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... (Blog)
- Jan 01 California – Saving Lives Starts Here Calling themselves the “motor doctors,” these equipment mechanics — all members of Local 127 (Council 36), and employed by the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department — were indispensable to firefighters. (AFSCME Works Magazine)
- May 01 Still Hurting After Katrina A damaged home in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, where the first new houses were completed and turned over to owners just this February — a full 18 months after Hurricane Katrina. (AFSCME Works Magazine)
- May 01 Utah — Dispatchers Recognized for Composure During Shooting When a gunman opened fire on shoppers at the Trolley Square Mall near downtown Feb. 12, AFSCME members answered the flood of 911 calls that came in to police and fire department switchboards. (AFSCME Works Magazine)
- Oct 01 Clark Scholar Spies Success For the next few years, Chad Villella and his family will breathe a lot easier when it comes time to pay college tuition. (AFSCME Works Magazine)
