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It’s undeniable. Joe Biden is the most pro-union president of any of our lifetimes. He’s a union man, and he’s not afraid to admit it.
AFSCME is proud to endorse President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for four more years. Add your name at
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Be diligent and check your child’s candy this year. I found a union card in my daughter’s Snickers and now she’s renegotiated her allowance and wants hazard pay for taking out the trash. No words.
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We're good, thanks.
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“We’re all family here. You don’t need a union.” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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@PeteButtigieg
addressing AFSCME members on racial and economic justice: "It's in unions that we get the answer to the question of whether we're going to care about racial equity or economic kitchen table issues...Our interests are actually very well-aligned."
#AFSCMEForum
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Elected officials can help strengthen our democracy by protecting and expanding voting rights, including the expansion of early voting and automatic voter registration. This must be a part of the
#DemocracyAgenda
.
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@SpeakerPelosi
today joined AFSCME and called on the Senate to approve at least $1 trillion in flexible aid to states, cities and towns. “We are not worthy of praising our front-line heroes until we do everything possible to support them,” she said.
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@realDonaldTrump
Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, owed the same public services and disaster relief as any other citizen.
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Trumpcare: An Abdication of Responsibility, a Moral Disgrace via
@intelligencer
#VoteNoAHCA
#ProtectOurCare
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The year he was elected,
@realDonaldTrump
paid $750 in taxes. Now that he’s president, he judges the health of the economy by how well his rich supporters are doing.
#VPDebate
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Right now,
@AFSCME
members, federal workers and union allies are holding a rally to
#StopTheShutdown
at the
@AFLCIO
headquarters. We demand
@realDonaldTrump
end the partial government shutdown and treat government employees with respect.
#EndTheShutdown
#1u
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"The only way to beat COVID and reopen the economy is to save vital public services and the public service workers who provide them – and this bill from the House of Representatives does exactly that.”
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Nevada lawmakers have passed legislation that clears the way for about 22,000 state employees, such as prison staff, custodial workers and tax examiners, to join labor unions and bargain over employment terms and conditions.
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Pres. Saunders’ new HuffPo piece: For the Future of Working Families: Vote Hillary Clinton:
#ImWithHer
#WeVoteWeWin
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@staceyabrams
addressed AFSCME members in the Convention Hall, urging delegates to harness their power and vote.
#AFSCMETogether
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As coronavirus cases continue to increase across the country,
@senatemajldr
Mitch McConnell is doing everything he can to block a stimulus deal to help struggling Americans and provide critical aid to states, cities and towns.
#FundTheFrontLines
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According to a survey released by Gallup, approval of labor unions has hit its highest level in 15 years! 💪
#UnionStrong
#1u
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@JulianCastro
addressing AFSCME members at the
#AFSCMEForum
: "We have more need for home health care workers than ever before...We need to raise their wages...and make sure that they can effectively organize."
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In 2017, CEOs on average made $18.9M, vs $62K for workers. This is 312x MORE. The
#GOPTaxScam
-- which fuels record corp profits -- will make this worse. We need a tax code that makes corps pay their fair share, not rig the system against working families.
#WorkersDeserveMore
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It’s already hard enough for working families to make ends meet, let alone afford the extraordinary cost of quality child care.
@SenWarren
and
@RepDebHaaland
's
#UniversalChildCare
plan provides much-needed relief to millions of hardworking families.
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In response to a member question on private prisons and safe staffing, Sen.
@BernieSanders
: "We must ban private prisons...I don't believe large corporations should make millions of dollars by locking up fellow Americans."
#AFSCMEForum
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54 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis, where he was marching with AFSCME sanitation workers who had gone on strike to protest degrading working conditions. We honor Dr. King’s legacy today by continuing the fight for racial and economic justice.
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To date,
@senatemajldr
Mitch McConnell and the
@SenateGOP
have refused to help working people and our struggling communities. They should, without delay, take up and pass this new bill.
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VIDEO: We are a nation that is better than this. We must stand up for America's values, and stand against the Trump budget.
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Congratulations to Volkswagen workers in Tennessee for winning their union with
@UAW
!
This victory shows that workers in every part of this country want the freedom to join a union, and when we stand together, we have tremendous power.
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@realDonaldTrump
Public service workers are heroes who will never quit on Puerto Rico. Fund relief efforts, let them do their jobs. Lives are on the line.
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@AndyPuzder
We hope Trump gets it right next time & chooses a nominee who shares the values of working families
#1u
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#TrumpTaxCuts
promised that corporations would use their tax cuts to give working families a $4,000 pay raise. It’s
#TaxDay2019
… Did you get that $4,000?
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Be there for your little one with union-negotiated family leave benefits.
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No union busters allowed. Thanks,
@POTUS
.
Latest: Joe Biden has fired NLRB general counsel Peter Robb, after Robb refused to resign Robb is a Trump appointee who'd helped Reagan defeat the air traffic controllers. NLRB general counsel gets to decide what sorts of labor rights cases are prosecuted
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Remember the weekend, sick leave, child labor laws & safer working conditions? Unions built that!
#1u
#LaborDay
http://t.co/YjGi5jI2Kc
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Union cancels Indiana conference over 'un-American' discrimination law
http://t.co/Q5TsG4cfbk
#1u
#LGBT
http://t.co/9JwhyHgnRY
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#MayDay
, or
#InternationalWorkersDay
, is when we commemorate the struggle to secure the 8-hour work day and other worker protections.
#1u
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Longest. Shutdown. Ever. It’s time to
#StopTheShutdown
. Retweet this to tell
@senatemajldr
Mitch McConnell to
#CallTheVote
!
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#IStandWithMarkThompson
and demand
@SIRIUSXM
return
@ministter
’s voice to the
@SXMProgress
airwaves. Read about campaign targeting Mark Thompson and prominent African American progressives: and send an email via .
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The majority of DC residents are Black or Brown. And they get no votes in Congress. Something seem wrong? That's because it is. If Congress is fully committed to racial justice,
#DCStatehood
must be a priority and it must happen soon ⏰
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Without writers, there would be no stories to tell. They deserve to be paid fairly for their contributions to the entertainment industry. We stand in
#solidarity
with
@WGAEast
and
@WGAWest
.
#1U
#WritersStrike
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Senate Republicans, why don't you want to put food on the table and rent $ in the pockets of Americans? We can't beat this virus if we don't
#FundTheFrontLines
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"We stand with UAW in this fight, and we will continue to be by their side until they get the dignity and respect they are owed."
AFSCME stands in solidarity with
@UAW
as they expand their historic strike. Full statement below:
#StandUpUAW
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WATCH: AFSCME members showed up in a sea of green at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to support their
@PMA_Union
(
@PHLafscmeDC47
) in their fight for a fair contract. Fair contract NOW!
#AFSCMETogether
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For their roles in the Flint water crisis, which sickened countless of the city's residents, poisoned its children and killed at least 12 people, former MI Gov. Rick
@onetoughnerd
Snyder and members of his administration are now facing criminal charges.
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#RobinWilliams
was not just a gifted comic & actor, but a dedicated unionist, too
http://t.co/AWHQ3uK7b4
#1u
http://t.co/qyzdu2H3EN
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Lee Saunders: “
@KamalaHarris
brought passion and grit to this presidential campaign, elevating solutions to some of the most important challenges facing working families. She will continue to be a powerful and effective fighter for all Californians and Americans in the Senate.”
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.
@IlhanMN
is still AFSCME strong! Solidarity forever.
I went on my first strike as a member of
@AFSCME
when
@israhirsi
and Adnan were very little and it was solidarity that kept me going. Adnan was still in his stroller than and so many people helped care for him and us. Solidarity is the only way our union siblings remain strong 💪🏽
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Today, the final
#ChildTaxCredit
payments of the year will hit bank accounts.
If the Senate doesn't act to pass
#BuildBackBetter
now, they will be the last monthly payments parents get.
We need our tax code to work for families, not millionaires.
#SaveTheChildTaxCredit
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Bush on how to grow our economy: Work longer hours? The answer's right behind your head, Jeb
http://t.co/QAxwDs6DdA
http://t.co/33K2PLUhul
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Anyone writing our obituary is going to be sorely disappointed.
Public-sector unions defied the Right’s attempt to crush them—and were transformed in the process.
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To help our communities build back better,
@SpeakerPelosi
knew
#AmericanRescuePlan
funding needed to go directly to those most familiar with the local challenges - not just the states and cities, but counties and localities too.
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While you’re watching the
#SuperBowl
, remember this: ALL of the players are union members
http://t.co/e6wjBVSpDB
#1u
http://t.co/C7mP9rNXKz
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We hear all the time from the right that unions are bad for workers. But facts are facts:
http://t.co/e6wjBV1Cfp
#1u
http://t.co/RmDEecp10e
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Billionaires have have established anti-union organizations to trick working people into quitting their unions. But we're sticking together and fighting back!
#RiseUpAFSCME
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Reproductive rights are workers’ rights. Reproductive justice is economic justice.
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@PeteButtigieg
addressing AFSCME members on racial and economic justice: "It's in unions that we get the answer to the question of whether we're going to care about racial equity or economic kitchen table issues...Our interests are actually very well-aligned."
#AFSCMEForum
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Trump dissolved the pandemic unit that got us thru the Ebola outbreak. He’s ransacking FEMA’s disaster relief fund. We can’t keep cutting services & expect to make a full recovery. We need aid to our states, cities, towns & schools now!
#FundtheFrontLines
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@JulianCastro
on the growing need for home care workers: "We need to raise home care workers' wages...and make sure they can effectively organize."
#AFSCMEForum
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We're with
@HillaryClinton
: if fighting for women is playing the
#WomanCard
, deal us in.
#ImWithHer
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"You know what family would never betray me? My union family!”
Marge Simpson knows the union difference. D'oh-n't forget to watch last night's
@TheSimpsons
' "Night of the Living Wage" episode.
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Neil Gorsuch’s seat on the Supreme Court is illegitimate. But now Mitch McConnell and his caucus must practice what they preach. Congress must not seat another justice to the Supreme Court until voters have had their say this November.
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#RobinWilliams
had a rider: Any company he worked w/ had to hire a certain number of homeless people
http://t.co/TD34AHUX1k
#1u
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Even though the Supreme Court has sided with billionaires today, we can still still stick together in the face of this political attack. Visit to say you’re sticking with your union.
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Please watch Laura's video, then call your senators at 866-584-5728 and tell them to reject Graham-Cassidy. We're with you,
@lpackard
.
President Trump blocked a woman with stage 4 cancer on Twitter.
Here’s her response:
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Congress needs to get back to work & pass a new bill with $700 billion in aid to state & local governments. We can’t abandon public service workers when their work is the key to containing the pandemic and re-opening the economy.
#FundTheFrontlines
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Thank you, Sen.
@MazieHirono
, for reminding people: The same powerful interests behind the Janus case are also behind Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS appointment. Their goal is to rig the system till it breaks.
#StopKavanaugh
The Supreme Court's decision in Janus v. AFSCME completed a decades-long assault on protections that workers around the country depended on for fair salaries and basic rights. The same groups who are behind cases like Janus put Brett Kavanaugh on their SCOTUS short list.
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Rest in power Elmore Nickleberry, the AFSCME brother who took part of the iconic 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike.
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Join the nationwide March On for Voting Rights movement this Saturday online or at an event near you. Speakers will call for passage of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, the For the People Act and for DC statehood.
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AFSCME supports the 340,000 UPS
@Teamsters
who are taking a stand for all working families. These dedicated workers put their lives at risk to deliver goods to homes so the we could stay safe during the pandemic. They deserve a fair contract in return for their sacrifices.
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It is long past due for the residents of the District of Columbia to have the same rights and freedoms as every other American living in the 50 states.
#DCStatehood
#HR51
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@udw_union
and AFSCME members are out in force today for the Rally for Care with
@POTUS
! Care workers are essential and it’s time we invest in
#TheCareEconomy
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@SenBobCasey
: To increase incomes and strengthen the middle class, we need to stop the assault on workers & labor unions.
#StandWithWorkers
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A full-time minimum-wage job won't get you a 1-bedroom apartment anywhere in America
http://t.co/wVaBMi0Mbj
#1u
http://t.co/eTjHgJlmhZ
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@BernieSanders
responds to AFSCME corrections officer who was injured on the job: "We must ban private prisons and detention centers."
#AFSCMEForum
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