🚨 Scenes from the picket line where 37,000 UC patient care workers at 10 campuses and 5 medical centers walked out for the last two days, demanding dignity and respect.
Union members are outside the Department of Labor making it clear: KEEP DOGE out of DOL! Our freedoms are not for sale. Say it with us: Unelected billionaires have no place in the DOL.
Union members and workers are outside the Department of Labor making it clear: KEEP DOGE out of DOL! Our freedoms are not for sale. Unelected billionaires have no place in the DOL.
Union members took over the Utah statehouse to make their voices heard. Lawmakers are trying to take away the freedom for public service workers to have union representation and a voice on the job.
BREAKING: Public service unions AFSCME, AFGE and NAGE (SEIU) file a lawsuit to halt the White House administration's unlawful Feb. 6 federal employee resignation directive & stop the purge of qualified professionals from the federal government workforce.
✊ Public service unions AFSCME & AFGE have filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's efforts to politicize civil service.
BREAKING: Public service unions AFSCME & AFGE have filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's efforts to politicize civil service.
Scene from the picket line in Groveport, OH where support staff for the Eastland-Fairfield Career center are on strike for fair wages. Even though the school board has the funds, the board is stubbornly refusing to pay.
Scene from the picket line in Groveport, where support staff for the Eastland-Fairfield Career center are on strike for fair wages. Even though the school board has the funds, the board is stubbornly refusing to pay.
Scenes from the picket line in Las Vegas, where AFSCME members marched with Virgin Hotel (Culinary Union) workers on strike for a fair contract!
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Administrative and technical workers for the City of Alexandria are now unionized! This is an incredible day for all city employees in Alexandria. We work hard every day to keep this city running, and now we’ll have a real voice in decisions that impact our jobs and our lives."
🙌 Florida union WIN: Despite rampant anti-union attacks from Gov. DeSantis, city of North Port workers are celebrating a strong new contract. "The revitalized labor movement in Florida will have a powerful presence along the Gulf Coast, and in North Port in particular, for years to come.”
New library union: Penn Libraries staff have unionized as AFSCME DC 47 Local 590 Penn Libraries United, extending a historic wave of unionization at the university where more than 500 employees have organized since 2021.
ICYMI: On Sunday, President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act, eliminating the Government Pension Offset (GPO) & Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) rules, which have denied over two million retired public service workers their hard-earned Social Security benefits for 40+ years.
After 16 months of negotiations, workers at Philadelphia’s first unionized children’s museum have ratified a contract!
Tucson city workers are standing up for cost-of-living raises: "When it comes to paying your bills and feeding your families, a one-time bonus doesn’t continue to cover that. A cost-of-living raise would. And that’s something people can count on."
After months of advocacy, 4,000 public sector workers in Hennepin County - social workers, library workers, public health & veterans' service expects and more - have won a hard-fought union contract!
Another library union victory is on the horizon: If approved by city leaders, Salt Lake City Public Library Workers United will become the first public library union in the state.
LIBRARY UNION WIN: After a pattern of unfair and unequal treatment from management, Urbana Free Library employees in Urbana, Illinois unanimously voted to form a union. ✊