Last month, City Council members pushed the beverage container tax to the back of the City’s budget, but thanks to AFSCME and the members of Local 44 the beverage container tax is back on the …

Hundreds of AFSCME members marched in front of the War Memorial Building yesterday, to declare      “Save Our Jobs” to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake.  Wearing T-Shirts that read “I am a Public Employee and Proud of …

City union employees flooded the Takoma Park public hearing Monday night to protest the layoffs and wage freeze proposed in the city manager’s draft of the 2011 budget.
About 30 union employees, mostly from the city’s …

AFSCME will hold its 39th Biennial Convention in Boston, MA, June 28-July 2. More than 5,000 delegates and guests from across the country will come together to focus on expanding our organizing efforts, securing important …

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 …

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 …

As leaders of America’s health insurance companies meet today, inside the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington DC , hundreds of AFSCME members joined thousands of demonstrators in the nation’s capital for a mass citizens arrest.  …

Governor O’Malley released his FY 2011 budget this week. Unfortunately, in our Union’s estimation, he plugged a nearly $2 billion shortfall with cuts and budget maneuvers and no new revenues. The proposed $13.2 …