The City’s 2012 Open Enrollment is scheduled for October 17, 2011 through October 28, 2011. During that time employees will be able to log on to the City’s benefits website at www.baltimorecity.essbenefits.com to make changes to coverage and to sign up for new plans. This year the City will hold three days of Benefit Health Fairs on October 19, October 26 and October 27, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the War Memorial Building. All of the City’s vendors will be present at the Benefits Fairs to provide valuable information and wellness services. Free flu shots will be available. The staff from the Employee Benefits Division (EBD) will be at the Benefits Fairs to answer questions and assist any employee or retiree who needs help logging onto the online benefits enrollment system.

This entry by AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee is cross-posted from Firedoglake.
As we celebrate Labor Day 2011, working families face greater attacks on their economic security than at any time since the days of the robber …

The Baltimore City Department of Transportation would like to advise motorists of the traffic modifications that will be implemented for the 2011 Inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix race. The streetscape of downtown Baltimore is being transformed …

The U.S. House Appropriations Committee last week eliminated funding for Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, including COPS Hiring Grants. The “C-J-S” bill now moves to the House floor, where the entire House of Representative …

by Clyde Weiss  |  July 13, 2011
AFSCME will co-chair a massive rally and march in Washington, DC, on August 27, the day before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’sNational Memorial will be unveiled on the National Mall.
The rally, led …

Two hundred prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison (California) have been on a hunger strike since July 1, 2011 to protest the cruel, inhumane and tortuous conditions of their imprisonment. The hunger strike has been …

Volunteers needed for greening event!
Monday, July 25 from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Academy for College and Career Exploration (ACCE)
1300 W. 36th Street, Baltimore, MD
Our goal is to remove ¾ of an acre of unused parking …

On Tuesday June 14, 2011, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision with Justice David Prosser writing the majority opinion, ordered the implementation of Gov. Scott Walker’s union busting “Budget Repair” bill. Wisconsin Secretary of …

by Clyde Weiss  |  June 08, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC – “We stand with you as you have stood with us,” Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, told AFSCME activists during the third …

by Clyde Weiss  |  June 07, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC – AFSCME Sec.-Treas. Lee A. Saunders, addressing hundreds of activists at our State Battles Summit this morning, declared that “corporate-backed politicians are trying to pull us apart rather than …

On May 25, 2011, President of AFSCME Maryland Council 67 Dale Chase was elected to NationalConference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCEPERS). The National Conference on PublicEmployee Retirement Systems (NCPERS) is the largest trade association …

Today in hundreds of ceremonies across the county working families are honoring workers who died or were injured on the job in the past year. In a Workers Memorial Day proclamation, President Obama says the nation must:
recommit …

The Prince George’s Council has agreed to consider a 2 percent pay raise for about 1800 county unionized employees, whose contracts were approved by former County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) …