About 1,500 DC 33 members, or 64% of those who cast ballots, voted to approve the contract agreement with Mayor Cherelle L.

CIO president Danny Bauder, who was elected in 2022, went into office with the goal of making the local labor movement more united. “My role is to help us see the bigger picture, help us see the need ...

The Philadelphia municipal strike was not the end but the opening act in a rapid series of confrontations in Philadelphia and ...

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The American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) launched a national ad calling for Congress to provide $1 trillion in financial assistance to states, cities, towns and s… ...

Gerald McEntee, longtime president of AFSCME labor union, dies at 87 The son of a Philadelphia street cleaner, he led the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees for three decades ...

AFSCME -- the law doesn't go far enough. Since these are public workers and negotiate their working conditions with the government, their work is inherently political, Janus' lawyer told HuffPost.

The International AFSCME leadership has notified three former members of the local union representing employees of Alton Mental Health Center that they have until June 6 to return roughly $192,000 ...

AFSCME, Illinois’ largest union of state employees, ratified a new four-year contract that gives workers an 18% pay hike over the course of the pact and extends parental leave to 12 weeks from 10.

At AFSCME over the past few years, we have held nearly 900,000 one-on-one conversations with members about the importance of recommitting to their union. Nearly 18,000 public service workers have ...

The average pensioner for AFSCME, one who receives a pension who has worked 30, 35 years, is 18 to 19 thousand dollars a year. That's not exorbitant. Those folks have paid into their pension programs.

AFSCME is the ideal champion of a Democratic party that is increasingly run by and for the public sector. At their most basic, the stakes of the 2010 election are whether government works for us ...