Latest News
- Oct 30 Statement of AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders on Hurricane Sandy Press Release
- Oct 01 Meet Richard Hayes. He Picks Up Mitt Romney’s Trash. Press Release AFSCME launches campaign featuring public workers who service Mitt Romney’s La Jolla, Calif., neighborhood
- Sep 08 Remembering the `invisible workers’ of 9/11 Greg Sargent, Washington Post On AFSCME's video remembrance of the workers who rose to the call of duty that day.
- Jul 08 Statement of AFSCME Pres. McEntee on the June Jobs Report Press Release
- Jul 07 “A Healthy Economy Is the Best Deficit Reduction Strategy” Press Release Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on debt ceiling negotiations
- Jun 22 Memphis saves jobs of union championed by King Associated Press Sanitation workers score a victory as city council passes budget without privatizing solid waste collection.
- Jun 03 Ordinary workers took extraordinary stand, made history Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of Labor, Memphis Commercial Appeal Memphis sanitation strike an important turning point in the fight for civil rights, workplace equality
- Apr 28 Workers Memorial Day Press Release Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on Workers Memorial Day
- Apr 12 Countering the Siege New York Times AFSCME President McEntee on how attacks on public service workers have energized union members and our allies in a growing battle over workers’ rights.
- Mar 09 Wisconsin Public Employees: Ramming Through Anti-Freedom Bill “An Affront to Democracy” Press Release 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.
- Jan 14 Martin Luther King and Public Employees Press Release Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee to commemorate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
- Jul 06 Thirsty for answers: Mayor's plan to sell water co. raises questions Summer Wood, NUVO
- Jul 15 Congressmen propose trust fund for nation's water infrastructure Don Behm, Journal Sentinel
- Apr 28 The Future of Streetlights: 6 Brilliant New Concepts Yonah Freemark, The Infrastructurist
