Lee Saunders Archive
With COVID-19 Behind Us, Now Is the Moment To Rebuild the Public Service Workforce
While public service workers must often do more with less, one person cannot do the job of three people—it's simply not sustainable. AFSCME's everyday heroes are ready to work with all stakeholders on a solution. It is time to staff the front lines.
Saunders: President Biden is ‘most pro-union, pro-worker president of our lifetimes’
President Joe Biden, who will seek reelection, is the most “pro-worker president of our lifetimes,” AFSCME President Lee Saunders says.
Saunders promotes upcoming AFSCME podcast about the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike
AFSCME President Lee Saunders promotes the I AM podcast in a new column.
30 years of the Family and Medical Leave Act: much to celebrate, much more to do
The Family and Medical Leave Act is turning 30 years old. But our country still lacks a national paid leave policy.
It’s Up to Us: Labor Carrying the King Legacy Forward
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, AFSCME President Lee Saunders shares his thoughts about the work we need to do to realize Dr. King’s dream.