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To honor those who died on the job, give every worker a voice in the workplace

Workers Memorial Day 2021 arrives at a moment of the greatest urgency, when the front lines of the war against

AFSCME applauds House passage of workplace violence bill

Workers in health care and social service industries are a big step closer to having safer workplaces.

Value the work of AFSCME library workers

On this National Library Workers Day, AFSCME library workers deserve to be recognized for the value they bring to ou

4/2/10 MSOP Meeting Minutes

Minutes

Agenda item: MSOP Update Presenter: Benson/Hebert
Discussion: General Update

1. Legislative Update:
a. MSOP bonding bill ($47.5M) was signed. Priority considerations will focus on infrastructure. Anticipated we’ll out grow our bed capacity in 2.5 years.
b. Legislative session has seen several bills introduced on new sentencing guidelines for offenders. Nothing agreed to at this time.

7/20/17 CBHH/CARE Meeting Minutes

Present: Adam Castle, Matt Stenger, Luke Frederick, Ashley Samora, Kristine Wahlberg, James Hemshrot, Tim Headlee, Ryan Cates, Krystal Kreklow, Jim Piece. Kristin a smith, Kevin Rislov, Dianne Andrews, Hanna marzinki, Derek Jones

1. Introductions

Billionaire Spends Millions to Gut Public Pensions

Hardworking Americans’ right to retire with dignity is in danger because billionaires are spending a lot of money to take away our pensions.

John Arnold is one of the worst offenders. He’s a former Enron trader who’s spent $50 million of his own fortune trying to gut retirement security nationally. Enron’s implosion caused billions of dollars of losses to its workers and their families, including a $1.5 billion hit to public pension assets. Yet Arnold escaped with an $8 million bonus right before the crash.

U.S. Supreme Court Case Seeks to Take Away Union Rights

A case the U.S. Supreme Court is taking up this term called Janus v. AFSCME could make the entire public sector “right-to-work” in one fell swoop.

Janus is the culmination of decades of attacks on working people by corporations, the wealthy and the politicians who do their bidding to rig the economy in their favor. The forces behind this case are the same ones that have pushed to limit voting rights, undermine civil rights and attack immigrants.

AFSCME Member Efforts Reap Elections Success

Thanks to help from AFSCME members, numerous worker-friendly candidates won Tuesday’s election outright or are leading in the polls.

AFSCME members and retirees volunteered hundreds of hours of their time to tirelessly call voters and knock on doors across the state in the weeks leading up to the municipal and school board elections.

Top Leadership Changes at Council

AFSCME Council 5 has a new executive director.

John Westmoreland, the former assistant director, started his role Nov. 1.

He replaces Council 5’s founding director Eliot Seide, who is retiring.

“Our union is in good hands,” Seide says.  “Under John’s leadership, our union won’t miss a beat as we continue our program with energy and discipline.”    

Westmoreland says he plans to meet with leaders of every local and build “a coalition of the willing.”