Maryland Home Care Providers Win First Contract Rights
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In their second victory since voting to join AFSCME Council 67 in 2008, approximately 4,500 independent home care providers throughout Maryland now have a contract that will help improve the conditions of their work …

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Bill to Cut Youth Wages Headed to House Floor!

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
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
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
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 …

Young Trade Unionists 1st Annual Networking and Career Fair
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
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
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 …

AFSCME Activists Protest Against Big Insurance Companies
AFSCME Activists Protest Against Big Insurance Companies

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.  …