RSS Feed 2018 Press Releases
- Jul 16 AFSCME Members Kick Off 43rd International Convention Following Supreme Court ruling against working people, thousands of activists rally together under “Rise Up” theme
- Jul 09 AFSCME Opposes Trump Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for United States Supreme Court
- Jun 27 Lee Saunders: Congress Must Not Seat Another Justice to Supreme Court Until After November
- Jun 27 America Needs Unions Now More than Ever As Supreme Court Sides with Corporate Billionaires Rigging Economy Against Workers On heels of high profile walkouts, new organizing and spiking approval for unions, union leaders see decision as rallying point to unrig economy and put workers first
- Jun 26 AFSCME Condemns Unjust Ruling in Muslim Ban Case
- Jun 21 AFSCME Opposes Proposal to Merge Departments of Education and Labor
- Jun 20 AFSCME Condemns Immoral Trump Policy of Separating Children from Parents at Southern Border
- Jun 05 AFSCME President Lee Saunders on 2018 Social Security and Medicare Trustee Reports
- Jun 01 AFSCME Joins Federal Employee Lawsuit Against Trump Administration
- May 25 AFSCME President Lee Saunders on Trump’s Executive Order to Undermine Federal Employees
- May 21 President Lee Saunders on the Supreme Court Decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis
- May 08 Lee Saunders: AFSCME Members Nationwide Stand in Solidarity with Striking UC Employees
- Apr 20 AFSCME President Lee Saunders Slams Puerto Rico Oversight Board Plan
- Apr 13 Roselló’s ‘Out of State Program’ Will Increase Puerto Rico Deficit AFSCME letter to PROMESA board calls out brazen attempt to mislead the public on the costs of sending Puerto Rican inmates to private prisons on U.S. mainland.
- Mar 23 AFSCME President Lee Saunders on the 8th Anniversary of the ACA
- Mar 22 AFSCME President on the Omnibus Spending Bill
- Mar 07 AFSCME President Lee Saunders Praises Senate Democratic Infrastructure Plan
- Mar 06 AFSCME President Lee Saunders on the West Virginia Teachers’ Strike
- Mar 06 AFSCME President on Trump Administration DACA Deadline Passing
- Feb 26 Joint Statement on Nationwide Mobilizations, Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 Oral Arguments
- Feb 09 Saunders Praises Overdue Bipartisanship on Federal Spending Package
- Jan 30 AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders Responds to the State of the Union
- Jan 22 Saunders: While Workers Relieved by End to Shutdown, Administration’s Brinkmanship Must Stop
- Jan 20 AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders Slams Trump, Congressional Allies for Shutdown
- Jan 20 AFSCME Amicus Briefs Argue SCOTUS Should Rule for Working People
- Jan 19 Saunders: Working People Continue to Come Together Despite Relentless Attacks AFSCME statement in response to the Bureau of Labor Statistics report on the 2017 union membership rate, which held steady from 2016
- Jan 12 AFSCME Issues Merits Brief in Janus v. AFSCME AFSCME submitted today its brief on the merits of the corporate-backed Supreme Court Case, Janus v. AFSCME Council 31.
- Jan 11 Surviving Memphis Sanitation Workers from 1968 Strike Honored by the NAACP with Prestigious ‘Vanguard Award’ Recognition by Civil Rights Group Comes in Advance of “I AM 2018” Campaign Activities
