AFSCME News
Tulsa City Workers Join Together with AFSCME
The 800 office-technical and administrative-technical employees now have a voice on the job.
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Bush Ends Golf, Not War
President displays his shallowness by sharing his personal sacrifice during the ongoing war in Iraq: giving up golf.
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McCain to 14-Year-Old: No Equal Pay for You
In a town hall meeting, GOP nominee tries to explain why he doesn’t support legislation allowing women to sue for equal pay.
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States & Localities Need Investments Now
AFSCME Pres. McEntee argues that Congress needs to take steps to maintain critical services.
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Let Puerto Rico Vote
AFSCME President Gerald McEntee says Puerto Rico deserves to be heard in this historic nomination battle.
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Failure to Enforce U.S. Labor Laws Fuels Exploitation of Workers
Experts told a House committee that lax enforcement leads to the hiring of more undocumented workers.
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Investor Education for Working Families
The new Investor Education program offers free, self-paced online classes and resource materials.
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McCain is Wrong on Collapsing Bridges and the Mafia’s Good Works
AFSCME Pres. McEntee challenges Sen. McCain's recent statements.
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Minnesota’s Walker Methodist Employees Win First Contract
After five long, difficult years struggling for justice, some 400 employees of Walker Methodist Health Center in Minneapolis can finally claim victory – their first contract!
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Mission Accomplished and a Bridge to Sell in Brooklyn
Exactly five years ago today, President Bush declared, “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.”
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Contract Workers Win Fight to Become UC Davis Employees
Nearly 200 contracted-out food service workers at the University of California at Davis have won their lengthy battle to become full-time UC employees.
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AFSCME PA Council 13 Launches ‘Operation Veterans Hope’
Thermal clothing, computer game consoles, a large-screen television and other items were donated April 8 to residents of the Southeastern Veterans Center in Spring City, Pennsylvania.
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Equal Pay – No Way, Say Republicans
Republican senators have once again made it harder for women to overcome pay discrimination.
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Dems: Experiencing a Rebirth
AFSCME President McEntee has a message for those who think the Democratic primary has gone on too long: they're wrong.
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School Custodians Say ‘No’ to Aramark
Members of Connecticut Council 4 and their supporters rally to demand that the New Haven school system stop contracting out work that has been outsourced to privateer Aramark for the last 12 years.
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Equal Pay – Not Yet
It’s been 45 years since equal pay became the law, and working women still are not paid as much as men for the same work.
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Oklahoma Municipal Workers Win Historic First Contracts
Some 700 employees of the cities of Enid and Lawton have won first contracts under a 2004 state law championed by AFSCME all the way to the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
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Americans and Facts Disagree With McCain
Sen. McCain says "there's been great progress economically" over the last seven years. You don't say?
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Robert Reich’s Endorsement - No Big Deal
AFSCME Pres. McEntee points out that Reich’s record on workers' rights leaves something to be desired.
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Celebrate National Library Week
AFSCME recognizes the hard-working library employees who guide our nation’s readers to the wealth of knowledge found in books.
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