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 …

Six hundred layoff notices are slated to land on the desks of Baltimore union leaders next week, as the City Council scrambles to reach an agreement over a bevy of competing tax proposals to plug …

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 …

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON SIGNING EXECUTIVE ORDER ON HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
East Room – 4:54 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you, everybody.  Please have a seat.  (Applause.)  Thank you very much.  Well, it is …

On January 18, our nation celebrates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. AFSCME has a particular tie to Dr. King and his causes. For it was in Memphis, where he joined 1,300 AFSCME …

Maryland is $1.5 billion over budget and state workers are being furloughed, but a commission is recommending raises for the governor and state lawmakers.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — State lawmakers are currently up for a raise, even …

WASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, today announced the Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations bill, which has been approved by the Senate, includes $800,000 in …

The health care bill being considered by the U.S. Senate is inadequate and too tilted toward the insurance industry, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said today.
In recent days, as the Senate has debated health care reform, …

Federal investments in our national service programs are an important way for Congress and the Obama administration to tackle high unemployment and growing poverty across the nation. The almost two-year-long Great Recession appears to be giving way to an incipient economic recovery, but job growth and wage growth will be slow in the months ahead. Providing short-term employment opportunities for jobless youth and helping to build the capacity of nonprofit organizations to transform participants’ long-term career prospects would strengthen the economy and spur economic demand.

A new study finds disturbing developments for young workers between the ages of 18 and 35.  The study blames the downturn in the economy and insufficient government intervention.
Eric Schaffer passes the time trolling the Internet, …

They came to Pittsburgh, heard a host of speeches, elected new officers and passed a raft of resolutions. But did the AFL-CIO convention really accomplish anything?

President Barack Obama had a strong, inspiring message for delegates to the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention: We’re going to make this country work again. In a speech punctuated by chants and standing ovations, Obama said he’s …

On June 25th, with your participation, thousands rallied in DC in front of the Capitol demanding health care for all Americans. AFSCME’s own Executive Director; Glenard Middleton stated that:
“The time is NOW we have …