April 12, 2018 City Workers Part of Tornado Response Team Learn how members of one Ohio local helped their community recover after a tornado tore through their city recently. Read More
April 10, 2018 Equal Pay Day Reminds Us the Gender Pay Gap Persists On Equal Pay Day, we are reminded that women still get paid less than men for doing the same work. Read More
April 10, 2018 Thank a Library Worker Today Today is National Library Workers Day, which means it’s a great day to thank a library staff member. Read More
April 06, 2018 City Cited for Safety Violations in CSEA Member's Death The City of Watertown, N.Y., has been cited for safety violations in the death of a CSEA member who worked at a sewage plant. Read More
April 06, 2018 The Week of I AM Commemorations Thousands marched to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death and the Memphis, Tennessee, sanitation workers’ strike. Read More
April 04, 2018 AFSCME in Memphis: I AM 2018 is Call to Action to “Reach the Promised Land” On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Mountaintop” speech, AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders echoed King’s words on the struggle for racial and economic justice. Read More
April 02, 2018 A Historic Week’s Events Commemorate the Tragedy and Triumph of 50 Years Ago This week’s Mountaintop Conference will be a celebration and commemoration of labor and civil rights history. Read More
March 29, 2018 Koch Brothers Work to Rig the Courts Charles and David Koch are branching out - to the judicial branch, that is. Read More
March 28, 2018 AFSCME’s Partnership with The Film Foundation Engages Youths, Spotlights Workers AFSCME has partnered with movie director Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation to engage young people about the essential stories of democracy. Read More
March 26, 2018 Fifty Years Later, The Struggle Continues Despite the progress that Memphis’ sanitation workers have seen, echoes from the past remain. Read More
March 23, 2018 The Affordable Care Act Is Eight Years Old and More Popular than Ever Eight years ago today, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. The law has never been as popular as it is today. Read More
March 20, 2018 The Right Way to Fix Infrastructure Unlike the White House’s infrastructure proposal, the Senate Democrats’ plan gives us a substantive roadmap for rebuilding our country. Read More
March 08, 2018 Public Employers Must Address Harassment Too Unions have a track record of working with private sector employers on policies to curb sexual harassment in the workplace. AFSCME urges public service employers to do the same. Read More
March 07, 2018 Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case threatens worker freedom and safety The Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 Supreme Court case threatens worker freedom and safety. Just ask Council 31 member Randy Clover. Read More
March 01, 2018 OH Member: Janus Case Threatens Vulnerable State Residents One of our Ohio members explains how the Janus case threatens the most vulnerable residents of her state. Read More
February 22, 2018 Black History Month: Bill Lucy Remembers ’68 Strike As part of Black History Month, former AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy shared a firsthand account of 1968 strike. Read More
February 21, 2018 An Infrastructure Plan or a Big Con? President Donald Trump’s infrastructure plan is not really about infrastructure at all – it’s about benefitting corporations and the wealthy at the expense of everyone else. Read More
February 20, 2018 DACA Hits Home for This AFSCME Member The DACA debate isn’t academic for this AFSCME member in Minnesota. It’s very real for this “dreamer” because ending the program could uproot her life. Read More
February 14, 2018 Young Workers Are the Future of Labor – And the Future Is Now A new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute shows that 76 percent of the nationwide increase in union membership in 2017 was made up of workers under 35. Read More
February 09, 2018 Budget Agreement Reached, DREAMers Still in Limbo While a bipartisan budget deal has been reached and the federal government shutdown has been averted, the fate of the DREAMERs still hangs in the balance. Read More
February 07, 2018 Public Service Workers to Supreme Court: Don’t Silence Our Voices AFSCME and other public-service unions urge the Supreme Court not to silence the voices of workers. Read More
February 02, 2018 Tell Trump: Tips Are for Waiters, Not Bosses Trump’s Labor Department wants to allow restaurant owners to keep the tips you leave for your waiter. That is, allow bosses to steal their employees’ wages. Read More
February 01, 2018 Honoring Cole, Walker and the Sanitation Workers’ Strike Across the country, working people honored two Memphis sanitation workers whose deaths triggered the historic 1968 sanitation workers’ strike. Read More
January 31, 2018 AFSCME: Working People Not Buying Trump’s Speech In response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, AFSCME President Lee Saunders said working families disagree with the chief executive’s assessment of their country and are unhappy with his track record. Read More
January 30, 2018 Virginia AFSCME Member in Spotlight for State of the Union Newly-elected Virginia delegate and AFSCME member Elizabeth Guzman has a rare honor tonight. Read More
January 30, 2018 American Workers Are Disenchanted with Trump – Big League! American workers are disenchanted with President Donald Trump. A year after he assumed office, there is no longer any doubt about his failure to stand up for working families. Read More
January 29, 2018 Workplace Dignity Struggles Persist 50 Years After Tragic Deaths In a recent newspaper column, an AFSCME California member describes how workplace dignity remains evasive, 50 years after the Memphis, Tennessee, sanitation worker’s strike. Read More
January 22, 2018 AFSCME Amicus Briefs Argue Supreme Court Should Rule for Working People More than 35 friend-of-the-court briefs have been filed in the Janus v. AFSCME case urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in favor of working people. Read More
January 19, 2018 Don’t Shut Down Uncle Sam. Pass Dreamers Bill. Renew CHIP. AFSCME to Congress – don’t shut down the government. Also fix DACA and renew CHIP. Read More
January 19, 2018 AFSCME: Working People Stay Strong Despite ‘Relentless, Dishonest’ Attacks on Labor New federal data on last year’s union membership shows working people remain strong despite “relentless, dishonest attacks from wealthy special interests,” AFSCME President Lee Saunders says. Read More