October 20, 2015 For Latina Leaders, AFSCME Strong is Close to Home For Josette Jaramillo and Betty Jo Aragon, AFSCME Strong is deeply personal. Jaramillo and Aragon, president and vice president of AFSCME District Council 76 respectively, are from Pueblo, Colorado, a city where nearly half of all residents are Latino. Read More
October 13, 2015 AFSCME Strong is Key to Increase Membership Tina Rees, a member of AFSCME Local 258, recently received an award from Council 57 in California for her efforts engaging her coworkers in the union. Read More
September 17, 2015 Chicago, New Orleans Cabbies Join Global Uber Protest Hundreds of AFSCME-represented cab drivers in Chicago and New Orleans joined cab drivers from around the world Sept. 16 in a “Global Day of Action Against Uber” and other unlicensed rideshare taxi operations. Read More
September 14, 2015 Public Safety Congress Gets AFSCME Strong Hundreds of AFSCME first responders gathered in Albuquerque, N.M., for the 2015 Public Safety Congress to discuss important issues regarding public safety, service and building power through AFSCME Strong. Read More
September 04, 2015 Unified Locals AFSCME Strong with New Contract AFSCME Locals 1328 and 1781, representing 2,400 clerks, LPNs, maintenance, PCAs and other professional and critical staff at UF Health Jacksonville, overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract. Read More
August 28, 2015 City Concessions Allow Employees to Avert Strike Troutdale, Oregon members who voted overwhelming to strike for better health care benefits, were still on the job after city negotiators conceded workers’ demand for quality health care, a 9% pay raise over 3 years, increased paid leave and much more. Read More
August 19, 2015 Gallup Poll: ‘Americans Want Unions’ 6 out of every 10 Americans now supports labor unions – a phenomenal five-point jump over the previous year. That’s the latest from a Gallup poll showing that during the past year, Americans’ approval of unions skyrocketed to its highest point in 7 years. Read More
August 10, 2015 Union Helps Her Recover $12,800 Deloris Wells' supervisor was not completing her annual evaluation form. And without a completed form she didn’t get a wage increase, year after year - so she called in the union for help. Read More
July 30, 2015 AFSCME Strong Bus Driver on Board “I have a very strong passion in what I do,” he says. “I’m still learning, but I feel as though I am making a difference in my workplace, in my local. It’s all about the membership," said Frank Upchurch, a bus driver and President of Local 1959. Read More
July 27, 2015 Atlanta Workers Speak Up, Win Raises The City Council voted overwhelmingly July 21 to approve a 3.5 percent pay increase for approximately 3,000 Atlanta city workers in public works, corrections, and parks and recreation, among other city services. Read More
July 16, 2015 AFSCME’s Enemies Look to the Supreme Court The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case with the potential to make “right-to-work” the law of the land in the public sector and undermine workers’ right to collectively bargain over wages, benefits and working conditions. Read More
July 10, 2015 Retirees Build on Success, Look to Protect Retirement Security More than 100 retirees gathered for the Alliance for Retired Americans Legislative Conference and the Annual AFSCME Retiree Council meeting in the nation’s capital this week, lobbying lawmakers to protect Social Security, Medicare and public pensions. Read More
July 08, 2015 San Jose City Workers Profit with AFSCME Strong Using AFSCME Strong campaign tactics to energize and mobilize members, Local 101 was able to win 9% wage increases during the 3-year term of a new contract for San Jose city workers. Read More
July 06, 2015 Tucson Fair Wages Push Is AFSCME Strong AFSCME Local 449 members are utilizing the tools they learned during their AFSCME Strong training to gain support to improve the lives of City of Tucson employees. Read More
June 19, 2015 In Hawaii, Challenges…and Answers Adele Koyama was skeptical that she would learn anything new about member involvement as she began AFSCME Strong training in Honolulu, May 11-12, along with 103 other union activists. She kept an open mind, however, and was far from disappointed. Read More
June 05, 2015 New Jobs Encouraging, But Wages Still Stagnant The addition of 280,000 jobs in May shows an economy on the upswing, but today’s report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics includes very disappointing numbers on wages, which rose only 2.3 percent from a year earlier. Read More
May 08, 2015 VIDEO: California Feeling AFSCME Strong Members and staff from United Domestic Workers (UDW) Local 3930, Hawaii Government Employees Association (HGEA) Local 152, AFSCME Council 36, and AFSCME Locals 3299 and 1902 talk about the importance of their recent AFSCME Strong training in this video. Read More
May 05, 2015 Are You AFSCME Strong? Through the AFSCME Strong campaign, our entire union is being transformed as we face the greatest challenge in our history. Read More
April 06, 2015 They’re AFSCME Strong and Proud to be First to Take Up the Challenge A new campaign, called AFSCME Strong, is focused on communicating and organizing, member to member. It is designed to leverage the strength of our member activists by training 5 percent of all AFSCME members on ways to connect with their co-workers. Read More