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We Carry on Dr. King’s Fight

Fifty-one years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to help rally the community around 1,300 AFSCME sanitation workers who had gone on strike.

We Carry on Dr. King’s Fight

Get Ready to Vote for Your 2019-21 Council 57 Executive Board

Council 57 members will have an opportunity to elect a new Executive Board at the upcoming April Delegates meeting.

Get Ready to Vote for Your 2019-21 Council 57 Executive Board

To Close the Gender Pay Gap, First a Voice on the Job

In the 1980s, I was living and going to school in Minnesota when women who worked for state government won a big victory. They got the state to increase the pay of women in “female dominated jobs” by passing a pay equity bill. In other words, they put a dent in the gender pay gap.

To Close the Gender Pay Gap, First a Voice on the Job

State Workers Make Workplace Violence, New Employee Training Top Priorities During 2019 Lobby Days

State Workers Make Workplace Violence, New Employee Training Top Priorities During 2019 Lobby Days

The Numbers Are In: AFSCME Members Are Sticking with Their Union

Our union gained more than 9,000 dues-paying members and nearly 19,000 dues-paying retirees in the last year, suggesting that billionaires and corporations are failing in their effort to “

The Numbers Are In: AFSCME Members Are Sticking with Their Union