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Up-to-date news for the web from AFSCME WORKS Magazine.
  UC Service Workers Approve Historic Agreement Some 8,500 University of California service workers will see their wages rise by 16 percent over five years under a new agreement ratified this month after a year-and-a-half of tough bargaining.  New Yorkers Protest Proposed Service Cuts Thousands of public employees and their supporters demonstrated in Albany on Jan. 7 to send a clear message that proposed budget cuts will place communities, jobs and services at unnecessary risk.  Hundreds Rally to Save Illinois Prison Council 31 members and supporters of Pontiac Correctional Center marched on the Capitol in Springfield to demand that Gov. Rod Blagojevich stop a plan by the Illinois Department of Corrections to shutter the maximum-security prison. UC Patient Care Workers Win! After a year-long struggle for justice, 11,500 patient care workers at the University of California have overwhelmingly ratified an agreement on a five-year contract.  AFSCME Salutes R.I. Veterans Members of Rhode Island Council 94 and AFSCME International honored the service of 253 residents of the Rhode Island Veterans Home in Bristol with a steak fry and a hefty donation.  Walking Ohio’s ‘Road to Recovery’ Ohio AFL-CIO Pres. Joseph Rugola set off on a 300-mile walk across the state to draw attention to how failed policies have affected everyday Americans.   Illinois State Employees Ratify Contract Following months of tough negotiations, some 37,000 state employees won an impressive new contract that raises wages and maintains affordable health care coverage for workers and their families.  44 Cents Makes No Sense United Domestic Workers of America are outraged by San Diego County's offer to raise the income of 22,000 home care providers by a paltry 44 cents an hour over three years.  
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