June 26, 2015 Pennsylvania Family, Youth Services Workers Strike and Win More than 100 employees of Lackawanna County (Pennsylvania) Family and Youth Services took the ultimate step to go out on strike in May to demand respect in the workplace. After 11 days on the picket line, they won. Read More
June 12, 2015 Cost of Outsourcing Keeps Going Up The push to outsource vital government services has resulted in failed experiments that lower the quality of services at a higher cost - and communities are forced to shoulder a higher cost to insource the services after the profiteers pull out. Read More
April 10, 2015 Going the Extra Mile: N.Y. Sanitation Workers Save a Life Two sanitation workers from Elmira, New York, Mike Waters and Ed Wood, took time out from their early morning route to save a life. Read More
March 19, 2015 Maryland Workers Rally Against Anti-Worker Budget More than 500 workers from every corner of Maryland converged on the state Capitol to rally against Gov. Larry Hogan’s plan to take away a pay raise from workers and drastically cut essential programs. Read More
February 09, 2015 Former AFSCME Member Takes the Gavel in Albany AFSCME is welcoming the historic election of Carl Heastie, a former AFSCME member, as the first African-American speaker of the New York State Assembly. Read More