AFSCME

Theft of Detroit retirees’ pensions gets one step closer

The results of retiree voting on pension cuts in the Detroit bankruptcy proceedings were announced on July 21. It was…

July 28, 2014

Detroit retirees denounce ‘Grand Theft Pension’

June 18 — Retired city of Detroit workers continue to oppose deep cuts to their pensions in the face of…

June 20, 2014

Detroit declares war on pensioners

Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr’s “Plan of Adjustment” is a declaration of war on the city of Detroit’s 20,000 retirees and…

February 25, 2014

AFSCME local’s resolution against war drive

Workers World Party members at the AFL-CIO Convention in Los Angeles were among those distributing this excellent anti-war resolution by…

September 11, 2013

Detroit: People battle bank takeover

Hundreds of members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees gathered on July 12 in Hart Plaza…

July 18, 2013

Union response to sequester

The first response to the threat facing government workers from the ­sequester was from the American Federation of Govern­ment Employees.…

March 8, 2013

Federal workers protest austerity, say no to ‘sequestration’

Washington, D.C. — Some 1,500 federal employees protested near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., demanding that Congress stop the federal…

February 25, 2013