Press Releases

  • SUIT FILED: In New Challenge, Retirees, Unions Seek to Block DOGE’s Unprecedented, Unlawful Social Security Data, Power Grab

    AFSCME, Alliance for Retired Americans, AFT Challenge DOGE’s Access, Executed by Unconfirmed, Acting Official, to Confidential, Private Data of Hundreds of Millions of Americans   Suit filed on heels of SSA Acting Head’s Departure Amid Concerns…

  • AFSCME’s Saunders: Diverting funding from vital public services to billionaires is inhumane

    WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after the Senate passed a budget reconciliation package, beginning the process to cut essential public services for communities nationwide: “This budget is inhumane. If cuts…

  • Public Service Unions and State Democracy Defenders Fund Challenge Unlawful, Mass Federal Firings

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Some of the nation’s largest public service unions have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the unlawful mass terminations of probationary federal employees, which was directed by the Office of Personnel Management…

  • AFSCME’s Saunders: Front-line health care workers need a leader at HHS who shares their values – not RFK Jr.

    WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement in opposition to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS):   “Front-line health care workers need a…

  • Unions Expand Suit to Block Elon Musk from Accessing Private Data at DOL, HHS and CFPB

    The AFL-CIO, AFGE, AFSCME, AFT, CWA, SEIU, Economic Policy Institute, and partner organizations are expanding their legal challenge to stop DOGE’s takeover of Americans’ private data   (Washington, D.C.)—A coalition of the AFL-CIO, unions, an…

  • AFSCME’s Saunders: We remain committed to fighting illegal attacks on worker freedoms

    WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement in response to the judge’s decision to allow the deferred resignation program to proceed:   “AFSCME and our partners remain committed to stopping this illegal…

  • AFSCME’s Saunders: Federal workers protect the public. That’s why they’re under attack.

    WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after President Trump signed an Executive Order directing DOGE to slash the federal workforce:   “It is unsurprising that an administration run by billionaires is…

  • AFSCME’s Saunders on Fork Directive Lawsuit: We must continue to stop the purge of federal workers

    WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after a federal judge continued the pause on the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program for federal employees:   “We are pleased with the judge’s decision…

  • AFSCME’s Saunders: Workers and communities are paying the price of the administration dismantling federal agencies

    WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after AFSCME members at the U.S. Department of Agriculture were placed on administrative leave to be furloughed:   “Federal workers and America’s communities are starting…

  • AFSCME’s Saunders: Russell Vought’s confirmation signals public services are on the chopping block

    WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement on Russell Vought’s confirmation as Office of Management and Budget director:   “Russell Vought’s singular goal for decades has been to gut public services and…