City Rolls Out COVID Vaccine and AFSCME Town Hall Jan. 12 at 6 p.m.
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS The City of New York and other employers where DC 37 members work are rolling out plans to distribute COVID-19 vaccines for their employees. New York [...]
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AFSCME Sues to Protect Health Workers From COVID-19, Flu, Ebola
By AFSCME STAFF SAN FRANCISCO – AFSCME and three other unions are taking the Trump administration to court to protect health care workers from getting infected on the job [...]
With Coney Barrett confirmation, Senate majority continues its ‘power games’
By AFSCME Staff AFSCME President Lee Saunders is blasting the Senate majority’s rushed confirmation Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court as yet another [...]
A Humble Engineer Keeps NYC’s Ferries Afloat
By PETE LEVINE With degrees in marine engineering, mechanical engineering and management, Local 375 of District Council 37 member Earl Baim might appear overqualified, at [...]
Remembering Dr. King
BY DIANE S. WILLIAMS On the 91st anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth January 15, we reflect on his life’s pursuit of liberty, justice, equality for all and [...]
Jim Tucciarelli, Union Leader and Activist, Retires
Jim Tucciarelli, a DC 37 leader for more than three decades and a staunch advocate for fellow responders who worked at Ground Zero in the aftermath of 9/11, has retired. [...]
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
By DIANE S. WILLIAMS Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis, Tennessee, in the spring of 1968 to make good on a promise to workers. Earlier that year, two Memphis [...]
AFSCME Members Join Federal Workers in Rally to End Government Shutdown
AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders and Janice Fridie (District Council 20). Photo Credit: Lorenzo Soto. AFSCME members today joined furloughed federal workers in Washington, D.C., to [...]
Rising Up: First-Time Convention Delegates Speak Out
More than 1,000 of the delegates to the 43rd AFSCME Convention in Boston last week were attending for the very first time. DC 37’s delegation included four new local [...]
DC 37 Members #RiseUp at 43rd AFSCME Convention
By MIKE LEE AFSCME members are heeding the call to #RiseUp following the 43rd International Convention of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in [...]
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