America's communities never rest. That's why people who work in public service never quit. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
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
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.
AFSCME, a union of 1.4 million public service workers nationwide, has endorsed former Vice President
@JoeBiden
for President. The endorsement was made by a unanimous vote of the union’s 35-member International Executive Board.
In 1968, 1,300 African American sanitation workers in Memphis – members of AFSCME Local 1733 – risked everything to go on strike. Today they received the
@NAACP
’s Vanguard Award, kicking off a week-long celebration of those living heroes.
#iam2018
.
@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
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
.
.
@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.
The
#Janus
decision sends our economy in the wrong direction. But it's also a rallying point. We call on elected leaders and candidates to do everything in their power to make it easier to unite in unions and build more power for all working people.
#Union
Elections matter.
@POTUS
EO invoking the Defense Production Act is a big step to help front-line public service workers get the PPE and other resources they need to stay safe, while battling the pandemic & getting Americans vaccinated.
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
"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.”
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.
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
.
@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."
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Public service workers across the country are celebrating the passage of Nevada
#SB135
, which expands collective bargaining rights to over 20,000 Nevada state employees.
#NVLeg
#1u
@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.
AFSCME Retirees on the Hill: No member of Congress is further away from retirement age than
@AOC
, but no one understands better the importance of affordable Rx, keeping Medicare and Social Security strong.
#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?
President Joe Biden is the most pro-worker president of our lifetime. That’s why thousands of union members gathered in Philly today to hear from
@POTUS
.
Tune in at 2 p.m. ET at !
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
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 ⏰
The Board of Directors of the
@WGAwest
and the Council of the
@WGAeast
, acting upon the authority granted to them by their memberships, have voted unanimously to call a strike, effective 12:01 AM, Tuesday, May 2.
AFSCME and the labor movement lost one of its giants last night, with the passing of Paul Booth at the age of 74. Paul leaves behind a loving family, legions of friends and admirers, and a towering, inspiring legacy.
#1u
"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
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
Proponents of so-called “right to work” often use lofty language to sell their agenda, but the truth behind right to work is much uglier. It was started in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s by a self-described white supremacist. Read more:
#IAM2018
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
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.
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.”
Today’s report reaffirms that when working people have the freedom to come together and join a union, they enjoy greater economic security and a higher standard of living for themselves and their families.
#1u
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 💪🏽
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
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.
Billionaires have have established anti-union organizations to trick working people into quitting their unions. But we're sticking together and fighting back!
#RiseUpAFSCME
.
@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
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
@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
"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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
.
@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
.
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
Dr. King said: “The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.” Read more from AFSCME President Lee Saunders about
#MLK
and the union difference.
#1u
#MLKDay