AFSCME

  • Detroit City Workers Rebuff New Mayor

    Detroit’s public sector workers have won a battle in a months-long war with Mayor Dave Bing. The recently re-elected mayor had threatened for a month to terminate contracts if city unions didn’t accept his proposed 26 furlough days—amounting to a 10 percent wage cut. He tried to make good on that threat in late October, moving to impose terms on AFSCME District Council 25, which represents 3,500 Detroit workers.

  • How Dare You, Transit Striker!

    Hey, did you hear about the World Series fans that were nearly stranded in South Philadelphia due to a transit shutdown? Probably. See any stories on striking drivers or mechanics, or their struggles to endure? Probably not. The pressure on the union during Philadelphia's transit strike is relentless.

  • Labor Notes Joins Public Sector Workers in Chicago

    Before the trick or treating began last Saturday in Chicago, 65 labor activists met at the United Electrical Workers hall to tackle the “zombie economics” of the free market, which has put the Illinois budget on its back.

  • Red Cross Pricked for Labor Problems
    Oct 24 2009 - 1:08am

    Management disrespect for workers at Red Cross is spoiling the reputation of one of America’s largest humanitarian organizations, according to a report by Jobs with Justice.

  • Illinois Workers Locked Out for Two Years after Voting in Union
    Gail Warner
    Jul 17 2009 - 3:15pm
  • Labor Rallies for Health Care Reform, but Keeps it Vague
    Jane Slaughter
    Jul 15 2009 - 1:56pm

    It’s no secret that the union movement is divided on health care reform. Resolutions favoring “Medicare for All,” a single-payer system, have been passed by 558 unions, central labor councils, state federations, and other union organizations. Yet in practice leaders of many of those same unions have acted as if actual single-payer legislation (Representative John Conyer’s HR 676 and Senator Bernie Sanders’ S703) didn’t exist.

  • Baltimore Stadium Cleaners Organized by Workers Center Join AFSCME

    Author(s):
    Tiffany Ten Eyck

    Excerpt:
    Tanya Diggins, a cleaner at the Baltimore Orioles baseball stadium, considers herself lucky. After four years on the job, she knows she’s going to have work cleaning up after fans. That’s not the case for many cleaners at Camden Yards, who are hired by a subcontractor and gather around the stadium on game days, hoping to get in and get to work. . . .

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  • New York School Aide Booted from Ballot

    Author(s):
    Mischa Gaus

    Excerpt:
    Tripping up an insurgent campaign among school aides, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 372 disqualified in mid-November a dissident candidate for the union’s executive board. . . .

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  • U-Mass unions demand funded contracts, plan walkouts

    Author(s):
    Bryan Pfeifer

    Excerpt:
    "Fund the contracts or we won't work."
    This militant message from over 200 rank-and-file members from the campus's five unions rang through the Mullins Center at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst November 6.

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  • Minnesota Public Employees Win the Largest Strike in State History

    Author(s):
    Anja Weinhold

    Excerpt:
    The strike of nearly 30,000 Minnesota state workers came to an end after two weeks of picketing, demonstrations, and rallies all over the state. For years the two unions involved had been accepting raises below the level of inflation.

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