On The Record: Joe Biden – A Leader With Character and Integrity
Joe Biden is a leader who understands in his gut the challenges working people face every day, a man of character whose compassion and decency will help heal the country at this challenging moment.
In final debate, Biden offers unity, clear path forward
In the final presidential debate, Joe Biden promised to fund the front lines, offering a vision of unity and a comprehensive path forward.
Saunders talks worker power, union support for political candidates
AFSCME President Lee Saunders discussed working people’s concerns and ways to win union support in an interview with the National Democratic Training Committee.
Our Stories
It’s been a year like no other, but don’t tell that to this Oregon emergency manager
Erik Rau is an emergency management planner for the state of Oregon who has helped battle fires, floods and a pandemic – all in a single year.
When a moment of reckoning becomes a moment of opportunity
Never Quit Service Award Winner Carre Adams leads the George Washington Carver Museum through a moment of change.
When a trailblazing correctional officer went down the walk at Angola
Shirley Coody, an assistant warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola and president of AFSCME Local 3056 (Council 17), is a winner of AFSCME's Never Quit Service Award.
In Depth
Impossible Choices
Closing schools, cutting mass transit and shuttering hospitals. If Congress doesn’t help states and localities, they might be forced to do all that and more.
Fund the Front Lines
Our country needs public service workers now more than ever. Cutting public services now is not an option, Congress. Fund the front lines.
Honoring the Past, Fighting for the Future
AFSCME Retirees are a big factor in our union’s growth agenda. Their message to working members is clear: “We need to keep fighting for what previous generations have won.”
Featured Benefits
Earn A Bachelor’s Degree – For Free. But Hurry Up and Apply.
You now have until June 22 to enroll in AFSCME’s Free Bachelor’s Degree Completion program – and you have one more major to choose from.
A 57-Year-Old AFSCME Free College Graduate’s Advice: ‘If I can do it, you can do it’
If a 57-year old AFSCME member can earn his associate degree through the AFSCME Free College benefit, so can you.
Hurry. The Deadline for the AFSCME Family Scholarship Is Fast Approaching.
AFSCME has extended the deadline for the AFSCME Family Scholarship to Jan. 15. Hurry up and apply.
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