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
Despite high levels of stress on the job, many state and local workers say they highly value serving the public and their communities and feel generally satisfied with their jobs.
Election Day 2019 was a big victory for working families. In states and cities across the country, they made their voices heard, electing pro-worker candidates for state and local government and providing further evidence of growing political momentum for working people.
Hundreds of union members, including AFSCME members, came together this past weekend in cities in Virginia to knock on doors and encourage people to vote on Election Day on Tuesday, when all seats in the House of Delegates and state Senate will be up for grabs.
It will be the first commonwealth-wide election since 2017, when worker-friendly lawmakers won the governorship and came within one seat of taking control of the House of Delegates.
Last year, nearly half a million workers went on strike across the nation, the largest number since 1986, when the country’s union membership rate was considerably higher (17.5%) than it was in 2018 (10.5%).
A bill that has been introduced in the House of Representatives would simplify the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program for current and would-be participants.
