Protect Our Pension
06/18/2013 – 9:41 am | Comments Off

The mayor introduced a bill that would make public employees pay 1 percent of their salaries into the pension system per year for the next five years so that by 2017, workers would contribute 5 …

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Congratulations Ravens!
02/05/2013 – 11:45 am | Comments Off
Congratulations Ravens!

AFSCME Maryland Council 67 congratulates the Baltimore Ravens on their victory in Super Bowl XLVII. The AFSCME family joins the rest of the city in thanking the team for an exciting, and winning season. We are …

Mayor Rawlings-Blake Announces New $4.5 Million Wells Fargo Initiative
01/29/2013 – 12:15 pm | Comments Off
Mayor Rawlings-Blake Announces New $4.5 Million Wells Fargo Initiative

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Baltimore Housing Commissioner Paul T. Graziano and partners Wells Fargo & Company, NeighborWorks America, and Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore announced a $4.5 million public-private partnership through the CityLIFTSMprogram. The CityLIFTSM program in …

Sympathy & Solidarity
01/08/2013 – 11:38 pm | Comments Off
Sympathy & Solidarity

To our AFSCME sisters and brothers in Newtown, Connecticut,
To the first responders, including Newtown police officers, members of AFSCME Local 3153 (Council 15), who are demonstrating remarkable professionalism and dedication as public servants as they …

Obamacare Victory in Supreme Court a Victory for Marylanders
06/29/2012 – 3:10 pm | Comments Off
Obamacare Victory in Supreme Court a Victory for Marylanders

Statement of AFSCME Council 67 Executive Director Glen Middleton on the U.S. Supreme Court’ s decision affirming the constitutionality of Obamacare
Washington, DC —  “Today’s historic U.S. Supreme Court’s decision affirming the constitutionality of Obamacare is a …

Let’s Get Women Out Of The Red
05/01/2012 – 5:08 pm | Comments Off
Let’s Get Women Out Of The Red

This entry by AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee appears today on MomsRising.org which is partnering with the National Women’s Law Center to host today’s online blog carnival in support of Equal Pay Day.
Workers are under …

MLK Jr. Campaign 2012 and The American Dream
01/17/2012 – 10:29 pm | Comments Off
MLK Jr. Campaign 2012 and The American Dream

Each year, the commemoration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a reminder of the remarkable contribution he made to all of us through his courageous defense of civil rights, human dignity …