AFSCME President Lee Saunders praised the White House’s announcement Thursday that the Biden administration will forgive student loans for an additional 78,000 borrowers — including many AFSCME mem
Fifty-one years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to help rally the community around 1,300 AFSCME sanitation workers who had gone on strike.
In the 1980s, I was living and going to school in Minnesota when women who worked for state government won a big victory. They got the state to increase the pay of women in “female dominated jobs” by passing a pay equity bill. In other words, they put a dent in the gender pay gap. As a student, I researched and wrote about the process of crafting, passing and implementing that legislation. And I learned something that I have never forgotten: the union made it happen. And not just any union. Our union: AFSCME.
Our union gained more than 9,000 dues-paying members and nearly 19,000 dues-paying retirees in the last year, suggesting that billionaires and corporations are failing in their effort to “defund and defang” public service unions.
It was a great meeting this evening with some great points. We’re all aching for contract news and as of right now, financial,time,etc. haven’t been brought to the table yet. I will post as soon as i hear anything though. So please keep an eye out. Attendance for 3/12 meeting is as follows.
Jerry Lombardo,David Malley,Nate Smith, Dave Lasek, Joe Ashton, Pete Tzivekis, Mike Bryan, Vince Lorino, Phil Weidman, Rob Atkinson, and Jeff String.
We would like to welcome Jeff String to our county and also for attending the meeting tonight.
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Workers in Missouri and New Mexico have chalked important victories against anti-worker laws that would have robbed them of their voices and the right to bargain collectively.
