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
January 09, 2018 Atlantic City Water Services to Remain in Public Hands Atlantic City, N.J., water services to remain public, thanks to AFSCME members. Read More
August 02, 2017 Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Still Has No Foundation How far has President Donald Trump’s plans on infrastructure progressed? So far, not much. Read More
July 25, 2017 Senate Votes to Proceed with Eyes Closed on Health Care The U.S. Senate today voted to begin debate on a bill that would repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which has allowed tens of millions of Americans to afford health insurance. Read More
July 06, 2017 Trump Isn’t Saving Rural Infrastructure – He’s Selling It Out President’s plans to privatize rural infrastructure, where revitalization is desperately needed, hurts far more than they help. Read More
June 06, 2017 Trump’s Infrastructure Shell Game President Trump’s infrastructure plan serves up sweet deals for private investors while making public service workers and communities suffer. 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 03, 2017 AFSCME Says No to Private School Vouchers Private school vouchers are making a comeback in a federal spending bill that’ll keep government running through September 30. This is bad for public education. Read More
April 07, 2017 Pres. Lee Saunders Blasts Senate for Gorsuch Vote Pres. Lee Saunders said the Senate’s action to ram through the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch without strong bipartisan support sets a troubling precedent and sheds further light on the politicization of the judiciary. Read More
March 13, 2017 Corporations are NOT People – But Does Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee Know That? AFSCME is urging you to call your U.S. senators, too many of whom seem prepared to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, even though he refuses to answer simple questions. Read More
March 10, 2017 Where Can You Find Atrocious Conditions? Try Private Prisons. A private prison operator forced tens of thousands of immigrants who were detained on suspicions of being undocumented to work for $1 a day or for free, according to a lawsuit. Read More
February 24, 2017 Private Prisons Yet Another Trump Giveaway to Corporate America Reversing course from the Obama administration, Trump’s Justice Department announced it will continue the use of private prisons to house federal inmates. Read More
February 24, 2017 Private Prisons Yet Another Giveaway to Corporate America Reversing course from the Obama administration, Trump’s Justice Department announced it will continue the use of private prisons to house federal inmates. Read More
January 13, 2017 When the Food Seems Part of the Punishment Aramark food is reportedly so bad that it’s been the source of inmate complaints and protests for many years – and is sparking a protest march Saturday in the nation’s capital. Read More
January 10, 2017 AFSCME Helps Block Postal Privatization AFSCME and other labor groups can now celebrate a victory in the move to stop privatization of public services. Read More
January 09, 2017 #YesWeCan: Obama Came Through for Working People The first bill President Obama signed into law helped stop unfair pay discrimination against women, setting the tone for his legacy of standing up for working people. Read More
January 05, 2017 Public Services or Private Services? Trump’s Picks Favor Privatization All Around Donald Trump’s choices for his administration are ready to give the store away when they get into office, privatizing public services and even Social Security and Medicare. Read More
October 28, 2016 In Maryland, AFSCME Strong Secured an Anti-Outsourcing Victory Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan should have thought to ask Manisha Patel how she felt about her job before he tried to outsource it to a private contractor. Read More
August 18, 2016 It’s About Time – Federal Government to End Use of For-Profit Prison Operators AFSCME applauds the Justice Department’s decision to end the use of private, for-profit firms to run America’s federal prisons. Read More
June 17, 2016 Ohio Taxpayers Get Milked by State Prison Farm Selloff Ohio taxpayers to shell out $2.6 million annually for milk for prison inmates who used to get it from prison farms that are now closing. Read More
May 10, 2016 President Obama Meets with AFSCME Member in Flint Tyrone Wooten, an AFSCME member in Flint, Mich., met with President Obama May 4 to discuss the water crisis caused by lead. Read More
April 26, 2016 At Lebanon Correctional Institution in Ohio, 100 Percent AFSCME Membership At the correctional institution where Phil Morris is president of OCSEA Chapter 8310, AFSCME membership is at 100 percent. Read More
March 31, 2016 Boycott Leads to Better Jobs Local 3299 wins its year-long campaign to end subcontracting of custodians and parking attendants at UC Berkeley. Read More
January 28, 2016 Maryland Members in Tough Budget Fight AFSCME Maryland Council 3 members were able to restore step raises in this year’s budget, but they will face fights over proposed job cuts and outsourcing of state services. Read More
December 17, 2015 Fight Against Outsourcing Starts Early Too often the dangers of outsourcing hit us when the proverbial train has already left the station, making the pushback efforts that much harder. But AFSCME members at the Miami-Dade County Water and Sewer Department got ahead of the curve. Read More
December 10, 2015 Communities Deserve Services, Not Schemes Government deals with big banks to fund social services are bad news: They lack transparency, assign risk to the public and show no evidence of making services better and more efficient. Read More
September 17, 2015 Chicago, New Orleans Cabbies Join Global Uber Protest Hundreds of AFSCME-represented cab drivers in Chicago and New Orleans joined cab drivers from around the world Sept. 16 in a “Global Day of Action Against Uber” and other unlicensed rideshare taxi operations. Read More
August 05, 2015 Mass Rally Defends Sanitation Jobs, Services More than 200 union members stood united with small business owners and community activists in front of City Hall here Aug. 4, protesting the Council’s recent decision to move forward with consideration of outsourcing the city’s sanitation services. Read More
July 06, 2015 Tucson Fair Wages Push Is AFSCME Strong AFSCME Local 449 members are utilizing the tools they learned during their AFSCME Strong training to gain support to improve the lives of City of Tucson employees. Read More
June 12, 2015 Cost of Outsourcing Keeps Going Up The push to outsource vital government services has resulted in failed experiments that lower the quality of services at a higher cost - and communities are forced to shoulder a higher cost to insource the services after the profiteers pull out. Read More