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Biden forgives student loans for an additional 78,000 public service workers

AFSCME President Lee Saunders praised the White House’s announcement Thursday that the Biden administration will forgive student loans for an additional 78,000 borrowers — including many AFSCME mem

FMHP Meet and Confer 07.20.23

Agenda

AFSCME Labor Management

July 20, 2023

Facilitator / Chair

Jonelle Gressmen

Membership:

AFSCME  404 & Management

Eric Manriquez, Ryan Cates, Matt Stenger, Brian Wills, Marvin Sullivan, Cory Moon, Becky Robinson, Erin Wiederich, Annie Jakacki, Michelle Chalin, Roxanne Portner

 

Topic 

MSOP Meet and Confer July 13, 2023

 

 

 MINNESOTA SEX OFFENDER PROGRAM

AFSCME LABOR/MANAGEMENT MEETING

St. Peter – HR Conference Room – Microsoft Teams

July 13, 2023

12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

 

Attendees: Ryan Cates, Matt Stenger, Steaed Doehring, Jamie Schwartz, Nick Weerts, Eric Hesse, Erin Wiederich, Eric Manriquez, Leah Plonty, Bonnie Wold, Karen Holicky, Brooke Newfield, Michelle Sexe, Troy Sherwood, Scott Halvorson, Nicole Boder, Breanna Bullert

 

Follow Up Items

AFSCME members in Hawaii need your help

AFSCME members in Hawaii urgently need our help.

Please donate to our union’s Fallen Heroes Fund so we can send help to members affected by the wildfires in Hawaii, particularly those in the island of Maui.

MSOP Meet and Confer 7/13/23

 

 

 MINNESOTA SEX OFFENDER PROGRAM

AFSCME LABOR/MANAGEMENT MEETING

St. Peter – HR Conference Room – Microsoft Teams

July 13, 2023

12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

 

Attendees: Ryan Cates, Matt Stenger, Steaed Doehring, Jamie Schwartz, Nick Weerts, Eric Hesse, Erin Wiederich, Eric Manriquez, Leah Plonty, Bonnie Wold, Karen Holicky, Brooke Newfield, Michelle Sexe, Troy Sherwood, Scott Halvorson, Nicole Boder, Breanna Bullert

 

Follow Up Items

AFSCME nurses share worries about staffing crisis with Biden administration

AFSCME nurses from affiliates with tens of thousands of members in the health care sector met with U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra this month to share their concerns about the nationwide staffing crisis that is putting health care workers and patients at risk.

AFSCME holds job fairs to recruit talented public service workers

As part of its Staff the Front Lines nationwide bus tour, AFSCME will be holding job fairs in cities across the country to recruit people who are interested in good, union jobs working in public service.

Staff the Front Lines bus tour stop in Minneapolis includes first hiring hall

MINNEAPOLIS – AFSCME’s Staff the Front Lines bus tour made a stop here today and featured the first hiring hall of the summer.

Minnesota House Majority Leader Jamie Long and Deputy Commissioner of Minnesota Management and Budget Erin Campbell joined members of AFSCME Council 5 and AFSCME Council 65 to encourage Minnesotans to apply for open public service jobs.

The press conference took place outside Minneapolis’ United Labor Center, where a hiring hall took place this morning. Employers from eight Minnesota state agencies attended the event.

First stop for AFSCME’s Staff the Front Lines bus tour: Rochester, N.Y.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – AFSCME’s Staff the Front Lines national bus tour got underway Monday with a stop in this western New York city.

Mayor Malik Evans, Monroe County Executive Adam Bello and New York Assemblymember Harry Bronson joined AFSCME Council 66 members to encourage New Yorkers to apply for open public service jobs.