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.
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.
Local 2361 recently donated $100 to sponsor to a game of bingo at the Spring Fling Cash and Gift Card Bingo. The proceeds from this event will benefit The Women’s Center, Inc. of Columbia/Montour Counties.
The bingo will held at the Bloomsburg Fire Hall on Saturday, March 30, 2019. Doors will open at 4:00 and bingo will begin at 6:00. Tickets cost $20, and other raffles, games, and food will be available for purchase.
Tickets will be sold at the March 11th membership meeting. You can also buy tickets by contacting Christina Francis at (570) 854-5591.
Local 2361 recently made a $100 donation to Danville's Challenger Baseball Division. This donation will contribute to the team's trip to the Annual Worldwide Challenger Jamboree in Norfolk, Virginia. This will be the Division's 13th year attending the Jamboree.
Challenger Baseball is a division of Little League for special needs youth. This division serves the majority of the local area: Sunbury, Turbotville, Milton, Nescopeck, and the towns and villages in between.
The donation was voted on and approved by members at our November meeting.
LAS VEGAS — More than 160 AFSCME members gathered in Las Vegas last week to lift up the voice of public service workers and move our union forward.
At the AFSCME Volunteer Member Organizer Rise Up conference, VMOs from around the country attended skill-building training sessions and visited Nevada state employees to share the vision of improving the quality of public services and the lives of those who provide those services.
A federal court has ruled in favor of working families and against wealthy special interests in Danielson v. AFSCME Council 28, a case out of Washington state.
