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Landslide Unit Ratification Vote

A tentative agreement has been reached with the museum for the members of the Landslide Unit.  Now it's time for you to VOTE!  Voting will be held in the the Davis Classroom East from 9am to

L1559 Ratification Vote

A tentative agreement has been reached with the museum for the existing members of Local 1559.  Now it's time for you to VOTE!  Voting will be held in the the Davis Classroom East from 9am to 5pm. 

Tentative Contracts

Tentative contracts for Local 1559 and The Landslide Unit can be accessed through the links below.

Members in the News!

Check out the amazing shark models made by our exhibitions department.  Video from Time Out New York.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tsIcAkGDGA

Honoring the anniversary of America’s first pay equity strike

Striketober and Strikesgiving are over, but worker strikes are still going strong. As I write this, Kellogg’s workers are holding the line in Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Memphis. Alabama miners are heading into their ninth month of standing up to Warrior Met Coal. And the wave of worker actions demonstrating power and the fight for fairness continues to rise.

AFSCME President Lee Saunders joins signing ceremony of historic infrastructure bill

AFSCME President Lee Saunders on Monday joined President Joe Biden and members of his administration, as well as a bipartisan group of lawmakers, for the signing ceremony of the historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Congress has finally passed an infrastructure bill. Build Back Better should be next.

The House of Representatives has passed President Joe Biden’s transformational bipartisan infrastructure plan, which Biden will soon sign into law. The passage earned praise from AFSCME President Lee Saunders, who, in a statement, said, “We are turning a corner.”

Union 411: How and why we organize

As solidarity actions and strikes sweep the nation, workers are making history by organizing their workplaces for the first time.

When workers belong to a union, they have a unified voice to create safer, stronger and healthier workplaces. Organizing is our most effective tool to determine workplace dignity, hours, working conditions and quality of life. Workers aren’t stuck with dangerous workplace conditions with poor wages and benefits. They can improve them, together.

Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act Introduced

The Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act was introduced today in the House of Representatives by Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.). The bill, which currently has 144 cosponsors, would set a minimum nationwide standard of collective bargaining rights that states must provide. It would empower workers to join together for a voice on the job not only to improve working conditions but to improve the communities in which they work.

AFSCME Halloween Memes!

Follow the link below to generate your halloween AFSCME meme!

https://memegenerator.afscme.org/?link_id=3&can_id=0a730dbb4458118a55e77...

The union difference: Greatest wealth gains are for Black and Hispanic union households

We’ve said it before: Life is better in a union. 

Workers who belong to unions make more money than their nonunion counterparts. They have better health care insurance and retirement plans, more job security and safer working conditions. They’re happier.