Celebrate Labor Day with other union members at an event in your community. Here are the details.

Then stop by AFSCME’s kiosk at the Minnesota State Fair. More than 80 members from Council 5 locals are handing out buttons and information about who is not paying their share in helping the state, communities and school districts provide the services people need.

Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on the U.S. Senate’s 61 to 38 vote this morning to end the filibuster on the Jobs Bill

Delegates to the 39th International Convention of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, (AFSCME), today elected Lee Saunders to be the next Secretary-Treasurer of the union representing 1.6 million public service workers.

AFSCME activists rallied Wednesday on Boston Common, in solidarity with Council 93, to prevent the loss of critical public services and to pass the jobs bill now stalled in Congress.

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