June 13, 2017 AFSCME Defeats Raft of Bad Bills Filed in NM “Our union is taking action,” said Council 18 president Casey Padilla, referring to AFSCME’s successful efforts to stop anti-worker proposals from becoming law in New Mexico. “We're speaking up politically on behalf of workers.” Read More
June 12, 2017 Living Paycheck to Paycheck Gets Harder When the Boss Doesn’t Pay You Right Shortchanging Maryland state workers will cost the boss. Read on to find out more. Read More
June 09, 2017 Council 4 Members Fight Back to Protect Collective Bargaining in Connecticut Connecticut public workers fought off more than 100 attempts to cut their collective bargaining rights. Read More
June 09, 2017 AFSCME Strong Helps Nominate Champion to Lead New Jersey Powered by the strength of working families across the Garden State, AFSCME-endorsed candidate Phil Murphy has secured the Democratic nomination for governor in a landslide. Read More
June 08, 2017 Ohioans to Sen. Portman: No Cuts to Health Care, Medicaid AFSCME members and other worried Ohioans tell U.S. Sen. Rob Portman – say no to cutting Medicaid and health care. Read More
June 01, 2017 AFSCME Raises Alarm Over IT Outsourcing in OH OCSEA is raising public awareness about the state of Ohio’s increased outsourcing for information technology services. Read More
May 26, 2017 New Jersey’s Local 3779-D Achieves a Milestone — 100% Membership AFSCME members in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, achieve rare milestone – 100 percent membership. Read More
May 25, 2017 FL State Workers Getting First Real Raise in 11 Years – Thanks to AFSCME Thousands of state employees in Florida are getting their first real raises in 11 years, and they have AFSCME Florida to thank for it. Read More
May 19, 2017 LA State Workers Call for Corporations to Pay Fair Share of Taxes Learn how 700 Louisiana state workers launched their campaign to get corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. Read More
May 18, 2017 PA Child Care Workers Fight for Kids Pennsylvania child care providers underscored that our children are our future and demanded more funding for children’s services at a recent rally. Read More
May 16, 2017 She Became an EMT – and a Union Member – to Help Others Emergency Medical Technician Lindsay Washington helped her co-workers build a union to improve the services they provide to the community. Read More
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