More than 300 workers, including union members from AFSCME, AFT, IBEW, IFPTE, Iron Workers, UAW, UNITEHERE! and Workers United, participated in the First National Asian Pacific American Workers’ Rights Hearing at the AFL-CIO to share their stories and talk about the challenges of organizing new members.

Americans United for Change and AFSCME today announced the first wave of a $1.7 million dollar counteroffensive on television backing up 13 U.S. Representatives who put their constituents’ interests first by voting for the Affordable Health Care for America Act and are now on the receiving end of dishonest attack ads from special interests fighting to protect the status quo, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the 60 Plus Association.

Washington, DC — Retiree members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), stood for health care reform at an event headlined by First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House. Click headline to read more.

Hundreds of law enforcement and corrections officers are meeting this weekend in Las Vegas for the biennial Public Safety Congress.

As part of a major coalition effort backing up Members of Congress who stood up to the big health insurance industry by supporting the Affordable Health Care for America Act, ten television ads thanking eleven U.S. House members for their support were launched today in a joint $350,000 effort by Americans United for Change and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). Click headline to read more.

The Alaska State Troopers – members of the Public Safety Employees of Alaska (PSEA)/AFSCME Local 803 – are featured in a cable TV series on the National Geographic Channel.

Health care reform advocates are wasting no time saying thank you to Members of Congress who voted to pass comprehensive health care legislation – the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) – through the House of Representatives late Saturday night.

Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee regarding the passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the Access to Nutritious Meals for Young Children Act of 2009 to update the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) by adding additional resources to pay for healthier meals and expanding the program to include more children. CACFP provides healthy, nutritious meals to 3 million children each day who are in Head Start, Early Head Start, and child care programs in both centers and family child care homes. Click headline to read more.

“We knew that if we kept on fighting, we would win,” says Lorenzo North, a corrections officer and president of Local 159 (Pennsylvania District Council 33). North and the nearly 2,000 corrections officers in the City of Philadelphia recently got another boost when the Commonwealth Court ruled that the COs are entitled to reach new agreements through an arbitration process. Click headline to read more.