“America’s public service workers – our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians – chose making our communities safe, healthy and strong over getting rich. They are not, as the world’s richest man implies, genocidal murderers. Elon Musk and the billionaires in this administration have no idea what real people go through every day. That’s why he’s so willing to take a chainsaw to people’s jobs, Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare.” https://www.afscme.org/press/releases/2025/afscmes-saunders-elon-musk-you-have-no-clue-what-working-people-are-going-through #afscme

#UnionStrong “Leaders of several of the largest labor unions in the country will have speaking slots during primetime at the Democratic National Convention on Monday in Chicago, as the party continues its political overtures to a crucial voting block.

According to details first shared with CBS News, at least 7 labor union reps will deliver remarks Mon. incl #UAW Pres Shawn Fain, #SEIU Pres April Verrett, & #AFSCME President Lee Saunders”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democratic-national-convention-speakers-labor-unions/

#TimWalz at #AFSCME today: “I happen to be the first union member on a presidential ticket since Ronald Reagan. But rest assured, I won’t lose my way.”
#HarrisWalz2024 cc @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

On June 21, 2024, librarians, curators, developers, and other staff at the Penn Libraries delivered a letter to the Vice Provost/Director of the Penn Libraries announcing that they are unionizing as Penn Libraries United (PLU)

https://pennlibrariesunited.github.io/blog/firstpost/

Leaders of New York City's three library systems have for months warned that if budget cuts instituted last year and funding reductions that together total nearly $60 million included in Mayor Eric Adams' executive budget are enacted, Saturday service across the five boroughs' 219 branches could be eliminated

https://thechiefleader.com/stories/city-libraries-face-prospect-of-5-day-weeks,52374

Today in Labor History March 28, 1977: AFSCME Local 1644 struck in Atlanta, Georgia, for a pay raise. This local of mostly African American sanitation workers saw labor and civil rights as part of the same struggle. They saw their fight as a continuation of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. For several years, they organized to get black civil rights leaders elected to public office. They succeeded in getting their man, Maynard Jackson, elected mayor of Atlanta. After all, as vice mayor, Jackson had supported their 1970 strike. Yet, in his first three years as mayor, he refused to give them a single raise. Consequently, their wages dropped below the poverty line for a family of four. Jackson accused AFSCME of attacking Black Power by challenging his authority. He fired over 900 workers by April 1 and crushed the strike by the end of April. Many believe this set the precedent for Reagan’s mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during the PATCO strike, in 1981.

Newberry Library employees have won their first contract a year after forming a union, which includes:
• 15% increase in pay and a ratification bonus
• freeze of employee costs for health care
• doubling of parental leave
• bilingual pay
• continuing education funding
• grievance procedure and quarterly labor-management meetings

https://www.afscme.org/blog/newberry-library-employees-win-first-contract-a-year-after-forming-a-union

Sign the Community Letter of Support to support Salt Lake City Public Library Workers as they seek to unionize

#LibraryUnions #LibraryLabor #PublicLibraries #SaltLakeCityPublicLibrary #SLCPL #AFSCME

https://www.afscmeutah1004.org/support-salt-lake-city-public-library-workers-united

#Dartmouth library workers organizing! https://www.dclwu.org

Despite the crucial role we play in supporting education and research at Dartmouth, we remain understaffed and under-compensated. In the last few years alone, we have dealt with wage compression, library closures, and the removal of any systematized professional advancement structure...we have assessed our options and come to the...conclusion...that a union is our best option for a better workplace.

Dr. King was in Memphis to march for #AFSCME workers, who demanded the dignity, opportunity, and respect that we all deserve on the job.

Solidarity and love, today and always.

https://www.afscme.org/blog/fifty-years-later-the-struggle-continues

My name is Jordan Barab. I was a top #OSHA official during the Obama Administration, worked many years in the House of Representatives and almost two decades at #AFSCME. If you're interested in #OSHA or #Labor issues, follow me or tell me where to follow you. #Introduction

Enough is Enough: **#AFSCME – #Vermont calls for picket line against Scott Walker 5/30/19**

"Rutland, Vermont, 2019 -The Vermont Republican Party has invited former Union-busting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to talk at a private fundraiser on May 30th, in Burlington at the Hilton Hotel on Battery Street."

https://enoughisenough14.org/2019/05/06/afscme-vermont-calls-for-picket-line-against-scott-walker-5-30-19/