Press Releases Archive
Interested Parties Memo: Staffing the Front Lines
State and local governments have posted hundreds of thousands of job openings, but they have not been able to rebuild their workforces to pre-pandemic levels, let alone recover from the Great Recession. And it’s causing a crisis.
AFSCME’s Saunders: ‘Marty Walsh has made working people proud’
AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement on Secretary Marty Walsh departing the Department of Labor:
The Story of I AM: AFSCME to launch podcast series covering the legacy of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike
The series will feature exclusive interviews with Memphis sanitation strikers, Martin Luther King III, the Rev. James Lawson, AFSCME President Lee Saunders, and more
Saunders on State of the Union: President Biden is living up to his pledge to be ‘the most pro-union president in history’
AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement ahead of President Joe Biden’s second State of the Union address:
Life’s better in a union: AFSCME launches union wage calculator compiling BLS data released today
Today, upon release of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ annual report on union membership and earnings, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is launching a Union Wage Calculator.
AFSCME's Saunders: Government funding bill brings long-overdue benefits and protections for working people, ‘but there is more work to be done’
AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after Congress passed the fiscal year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill:
AFSCME's Saunders on the Respect for Marriage Act: ‘Love wins’
AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law.
AFSCME’s Saunders: With Sen. Warnock in Congress, ‘the future for working Georgians is bright’
AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after Sen. Raphael Warnock won the Georgia Senate runoff.
AFSCME’s Saunders: This House Democratic Party leadership ‘will be a force for working people across the country’
AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after leadership elections were held for the 118th Congress.
AFSCME’s Saunders: ‘With the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, we are finally codifying that love is love’
AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement celebrating the Senate’s passage of the bipartisan Respect for Marriage Act.