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AFSCME Council 18 Endorsements - Colorado

As people in public service, we know what a difference it makes when we elect leaders who have our backs.

ARP funds are an opportunity to build up communities by investing in public service workers

The American Rescue Plan, which AFSCME members helped make a reality and which President Joe Biden signed into law a year ago, provided $350 billion in funding to states, cities and towns.

Job Posting - AFSCME COLORADO COUNCIL 18 STAFF REPRESENTATIVE - INTERNAL ORGANIZER

AFSCME COLORADO COUNCIL 18
COUNCIL 18 STAFF REPRESENTATIVE - INTERNAL ORGANIZER

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Posting End Date: April 30, 2022

For union members, the ‘state of the union’ is strong


For union members, the ‘state of the union’ is strong

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler

Saunders praises nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court

Today, following President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the United States Supreme Court, AFSCME President Lee Saunders issued a statement praising the historic selection.

Year in review: 2021 was a banner year for Cultural Workers United


2021 was a banner year for Cultural Workers United

Walker Worker Union (AFSCME Council 5)

AFSCME mourns the loss of a beloved member of our union family, Mildred Wurf

AFSCME mourns the loss of Mildred Wurf, a beloved member of our union family, a pioneering District Council 37 educator and the widow of former AFSCME president, Jerry Wurf. Mildred Wurf died on Dec. 29 at the age of 95.

AFSCME Council 18 Stands in Solidarity with Essential Grocery Store Workers

December 16, 2021

Todd Broderick - President, Denver Division Albertsons / Safeway Stores, Inc.

President Broderick: 

The members of AFSCME Council 18 stand with the essential grocery workers at King Soopers, City Market, Safeway, and Albertsons in their struggle for a just and equitable contract. Essential grocery workers have kept our communities fed and healthy during an unprecedented pandemic. Furthermore, their working conditions are our shopping conditions, and their struggle for a safe workplace free from violence and with every protection possible to prevent the spread of COVID-19 affects us all. 

As worker that keep our communities thriving, we know that workers deserve--at a minimum--a living wage, affordable healthcare, and the retirement security of a fully funded pension. It is unacceptable that your companies are making record profits and have chosen to siphon that money out of our communities and into the pockets of millionaire CEOs and investors via bonuses and stock buybacks while workers get sick and die.

We stand in solidarity with essential grocery workers and demand that King Soopers, City Market, Safeway, and Albertsons sign a contract without delay that provides:

•        Safe Workplaces

•        Reliable Schedules

•        Living Wages

•        Affordable Healthcare

•        Full-time jobs

•        A Sound Pension Benefit

•        Equal Pay for Equal Work (No Two-Tier)

•        Hazard Pay

We commit ourselves to support the struggle of essential grocery workers. We will respect any established picket lines both at stores and online and will encourage our communities to do the same.

Sincerely,

Connie Derr - Executive Director, AFSCME Council 18

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.