AFSCME President Lee Saunders praised the White House’s announcement Thursday that the Biden administration will forgive student loans for an additional 78,000 borrowers — including many AFSCME mem
Mary was a strong and powerful union leader, as well as a long-time leader on the Twin Cities campus, and sister campuses around Minnesota. She started working at the U in 1990 and has been both a clerical and technical employee in the School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology. Through her years in both bargaining units and both locals, she has touched many of our lives. For years, Mary would wear several different “hats” for the local serving as president, treasurer, chief steward and contract negotiation team co-chair.
On the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., AFSCME releases the “I AM Story” podcast, which describes the working conditions faced by AFSCME sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968 – the year of their historic strike – and connects that seminal event to today’s struggle for economic and racial justice. The podcast also spotlights the ties between the labor and civil rights movements.
AFSCME wholeheartedly supports the newly reintroduced Richard Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), which would make it easier for workers in the private sector to form strong unions.
