May 04, 2017 Texas Corrections Members Take their Story to the Legislature AFSCME Texas Corrections members recently lobbied their state legislators to secure funding for facility and vehicle repairs and for other issues. Read More
May 03, 2017 AFSCME: Don’t Fix Puerto Rico’s Problems on Backs of Public Workers, Retirees Don’t solve Puerto Rico’s economic ills on the back of its public employees and retirees. That’s the message from Steve Kreisberg, AFSCME’s director of research and collective bargaining services. Read More
May 03, 2017 Camden County Librarians Get Active for a Contract Some N.J. librarians are standing together with support staff and winning together in their fight for a new contract. Read More
May 02, 2017 Delaware Employees: We’ve Sacrificed Enough, Governor Enough with the governor’s “shared sacrifice” trope, say Delaware public employees, more than 3,000 of whom are eligible for state aid. Read More
May 01, 2017 Bill Guaranteeing Health Coverage for Families of Fallen Officers Passes in Alaska After three years of pressure, AFSCME members in Alaska persuaded the legislature to pass a bill that guarantees health benefits for the families of fallen officers. Read More
April 27, 2017 Louisiana Members Step up Actions for Workplace Safety, Funding To stop violent attacks, employees of Louisiana’s Pinecrest Supports and Services Center used their union, and the news media, to get the word out. Read More
April 20, 2017 FL Members Active in Legislative Blitz Members of Florida AFSCME advocated for working people’s priorities during a recent legislative blitz. Read More
April 19, 2017 AFSCME Strong Works at Louisiana State Penitentiary At the Louisiana State Penitentiary, understaffing led to overtime for corrections officers at half the usual rate of compensation. Local 3056 fought back and won – and gained new members, too. Read More
April 13, 2017 Puerto Rico Members Fight Pension Cuts in Court SPU-AFSCME members are challenging the constitutionality of pension cuts in federal court. Read More
April 03, 2017 We Must Stand Firm on the 60-Vote Rule for Gorsuch Working people are demanding that Congress stick with the 60-vote rule to confirm nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court. Read More
March 30, 2017 Winning a Long-Overdue Raise – and Building Their Union Jacksonville, Florida’s Local 1279 experienced huge growth in early March thanks to a strong contract campaign for a new multi-year contract. Read More
February 24, 2017 Texas Corrections Employees, Retirees Push Legislative Priorities AFSCME members in Texas pushed legislative priorities that working people and retirees in the Lone Star State care about during face-to-face meetings with Texas lawmakers and staff this week. Read More
February 23, 2017 Illinois State Employees Vote to Authorize Strike In the first-ever strike authorization vote, 81 percent of Illinois state workers voted to give their bargaining committee the authority to call a strike if necessary. Read More
February 22, 2017 Toll Worker Shortchanged, Wins Big Payout AFSCME fought for a Delaware toll worker to get paid what she was owed, underscoring the value of belonging to a union. Read More
February 21, 2017 AFSCME Stands by Public Workers in Iowa AFSCME is fighting back in Iowa against the latest attempt to silence the voices of working people and take away their ability to negotiate together for better wages and working conditions. Read More
February 16, 2017 Working Families Win Big in New Hampshire Working families won big in New Hampshire today as state lawmakers voted by a wide margin to kill a right-to-work bill. Read More
February 09, 2017 Tom Price Is Bad for Your Health The man President Trump chose to oversee our nation’s health care system, Tom Price, believes tax cuts for the wealthy are more important than health and retirement security for working families. Read More
February 08, 2017 Uprising Against DeVos Shows Power of Activism Betsy DeVos became secretary of education by the narrowest possible margin. AFSCME members and others came oh so close to winning that fight and proved that activism matters. Read More
February 08, 2017 Trump Doesn’t Want You to Join a Union “Right-to-work” laws do not give anyone the right to work. If anything, they do the opposite. Read More
February 06, 2017 What Trump's Infrastructure Plan is Really About President Donald Trump says has a plan to rebuild America's crumbling infrastructure, but here's what his plan is REALLY about. Read More
February 03, 2017 Supreme Court Pick Must Prove His Independence President Donald Trump boasts that his Supreme Court nominee is in the same mold as deceased conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. But Trump must remember that the job of the justices is to act independently and in the nation’s best interests. Read More
February 01, 2017 AFSCME Celebrates Black History Month Perseverance. Community. Heritage. Family. Download our poster and join AFSCME as we celebrate Black History Month. Read More
January 31, 2017 AFSCME Opposes Trump’s Bigoted and Irresponsible Migrant Ban “AFSCME is proud to join thousands in states across the country to speak out against Donald Trump’s bigoted and irresponsible executive order” banning Muslims from certain countries from entry into the U.S., said President Lee Saunders. Read More
January 31, 2017 Voter Fraud? What You Talkin’ About, Trump? What voter fraud? President Donald Trump alleges—falsely—that there’s massive voter fraud. But there’s no evidence that this is true. Read More
January 27, 2017 Trump’s Pick for Education Secretary Deserves an ‘F’ in Education Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos has no serious qualifications for that job and supports privatization of education. We say ‘no’ to DeVos. Read More
January 27, 2017 Equal Pay for Women and Men Still Elusive 8 Years After Lilly Ledbetter Law This Sunday marks the eighth anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. That law was a milestone on the road to equal pay but also serves as a reminder of how far the country has to go. Read More
January 26, 2017 Despite Relentless Attacks, AFSCME Continues to Grow Despite a nationwide decline in labor union membership last year, AFSCME continues to grow. Last year, our union saw a net growth of nearly 12,000 members. Read More
January 25, 2017 Where’s Palin When You Need Her? As part of his plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is floating an idea long popular with many Republican lawmakers to convert Medicaid into a block-grant program. Read More
January 24, 2017 Senate Infrastructure Plan Is What Our Country Needs Senate Democrats today proposed a plan to invest in our nation’s infrastructure, from roads and bridges to broadband internet and school buildings, and create 15 million new jobs. Read More
January 24, 2017 Trump’s Wrong Choice for OMB Trump’s choice to head the Office of Management and Budget wants to make huge, arbitrary cuts that will cost America jobs and could send our economy into a tailspin. Read More