2-Cents Makes Sense: Baltimore City Passes 2 Cent Bottle Tax
07/06/2010 – 8:38 pm | Comments Off

In an 8-4 vote on Thursday City Council approves the Beverage Container Tax.
After months of debate and hours of negotiations, AFSCME is victorious. For months, AFSCME leaders have flooded City Hall hearings declaring “4 -Cents …

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Bill to Cut Youth Wages Headed to House Floor!
04/01/2010 – 9:30 pm | Comments Off

On March 23, 2010 House Bill 1792 was passed out of committee. This amended version of the bill we told you about last month would reduce the minimum wage for workers 18 and Under. For …

City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young Announces Board of Estimates’ Taxpayers’ Night
04/01/2010 – 12:55 pm | Comments Off
City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young Announces Board of Estimates’ Taxpayers’ Night

BALTIMORE, MD (March 26, 2010) – City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young is inviting the citizens of Baltimore to the FY2011 Board of Estimates’ Taxpayers’ Night. Taxpayers’ Night is an opportunity for members of …

Good Friday Holiday Notice
03/29/2010 – 11:16 pm | Comments Off
Good Friday Holiday Notice

Director David E. Scott announced today that Department of Public Works’ Offices will be closed Good Friday, April 2, 2010.
On Good Friday, April 2, 2010:

Trash and recycling WILL NOT BE COLLECTED.
Saturday, April 3, 2010, will …

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s Spring Clean Up on Saturday, April 17
03/29/2010 – 11:13 pm | Comments Off
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s Spring Clean Up on Saturday, April 17

Please call 311 to register your community.
Containers for debris collection will be available on a first call basis.
Trucks will NOT be available.
Even communities without a container can participate by bagging and stacking debris at a …

AFSCME WE DID IT!
03/24/2010 – 12:31 pm | Comments Off
AFSCME WE DID IT!

Today, we celebrate a great accomplishment; the signing of the Healthcare Bill.  It could not have happened without your 4 million calls, rallying in front of the capital, and stopping big insurance companies from issuing …

Young Trade Unionists 1st Annual Networking and Career Fair
03/21/2010 – 10:58 am | Comments Off
Young Trade Unionists 1st Annual Networking and Career Fair

There will be a diversity of Local Unions including construction apprenticeships, retails, and office professionals. Keynote Speakers will be Congressman Elijah Cummings and Delegate Cheryl Glenn. Participants will have the opportunity to receive an education …

Senate Passes Jobs Bill that Delivers Aid to States; Extends Unemployment Insurance Benefits and COBRA Subsidies
03/15/2010 – 12:51 pm | Comments Off
Senate Passes Jobs Bill that Delivers Aid to States; Extends Unemployment Insurance Benefits and COBRA Subsidies

AFSCME’s Make America Happen Campaign achieved an important victory in the fight to stabilize hemorrhaging state budgets and help those hard hit by the economy when the Senate passed the American Workers, State, and Business …

Stop Big Insurance
03/11/2010 – 10:07 pm | Comments Off
Stop Big Insurance

Today, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is leading a large union contingent in a march from the AFL-CIO and AFSCME buildings to a mass rally at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., during the meeting of the big insurance industry front …