AFSCME

  • New Rules for Wisconsin Unions: No Rules
    Theresa Moran
    Feb 10 2012 - 9:57am

    Wisconsin public workers face harsher work rules and shrinking paychecks as contracts expire and Governor Scott Walker’s anti-union bill sets in. Unions find they must shift from a servicing model to organizing in order to survive.

  • New York Governor, SEIU 1199 Raise Hackles with Medicaid Deal
    Mark Brenner
    Jan 9 2011 - 9:48am

    New York’s Medicaid redesign will privatize the state's home care network, costing 700 city jobs and tossing 40,000 low-income elderly and disabled into managed care agencies that a union says cut corners. AFSCME says SEIU 1199 OK'd the deal.

  • Campaign Accelerates To Recall Wisconsin Governor
    Jane Slaughter
    Dec 15 2011 - 12:39pm

    Wisconsin unionists say a copycat attack on Machinists is one more reason to recall Governor Scott Walker. Petitioners have gathered 507,000 signatures ahead of a mid-January deadline, almost enough to force a recall vote.

  • Rank and File Slate Takes Over Giant California Campus Local
    Marie Choi
    Nov 21 2011 - 12:01pm

    After months of member-to-member organizing, a group of AFSCME Local 3299 rank and filers swept October elections in the 20,000-member union on University of California campuses.

  • Michigan Unions and Poor Face 85 Hostile Laws
    Evan Rohar
    Oct 26 2011 - 4:28pm

    Michigan's “emergency manager” bill allowing a state-appointed executive to unilaterally fire city councils and school boards and cancel union contracts is just the beginning. Eighty-five bills blame Michigan’s economic problems on public employees and the poor.

  • Viewpoint: Let’s Learn the Right Lessons from Wisconsin
    Dave Poklinkoski
    Aug 21 2011 - 4:10pm

    The struggle in Wisconsin last winter was the awakening that labor movement activists had long hoped for. But the recall elections of six Republican senators turned out to be a squandered opportunity for education.

  • Recalls Gained Two Seats, Needed Three
    Jim Cavanaugh
    Aug 21 2011 - 4:01pm

    From the first day of the Wisconsin uprising, chants of “Recall! Recall!” sprang from the crowds. After petitioners collected tens of thousands of signatures, on August 9 the voters had their say, but defeated only two of the six Republican senators up for recall.

  • Sugar Workers Bitter over Lockout

    Locked-out sugar beet workers, their families, and supporters turned out in big numbers August 11 to say they want to work—but not on the terms offered by American Crystal Sugar.

    ACS locked out more than 1,300 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco & Grain Millers August 1, two days after they rejected deep concessions by 97 percent.

  • New York’s $600 Million Fraud Shows Privatization Doesn’t Pay
    Mischa Gaus
    Jul 27 2011 - 12:09pm

    How did New York City plan to prevent time theft by city workers? By hiring contractors who would, it turns out, steal $600 million. One of their crimes, prosecutors allege, was to file bogus timesheets.

  • Why Connecticut Workers Said ‘No Concessions’
    Mark Brenner
    Jul 25 2011 - 3:16pm

    When Connecticut state employees voted down concessions in June, they touched off a firestorm. Lawmakers painted the vote as selfish union members holding tight to outsized benefits. The truth, of course, is more complicated.