Civil Service Birthday 2021
AFCSME Retiree Peter Nowicki Poses with Fighting Bob
Steward Training
Madison - Saturday, February 1, 2014
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
AFSCME Headquarters, 8033 Excelsior Drive
Milwaukee -- Saturday, February 15, 2014
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Yatchak Hall, Milwaukee County Labor Council, 633 S. Hawley Rd.
Labor Notes Conference - St. Louis
Labor Notes Conference -- Barb Smith attended the Labor Notes Conference in St. Louis in September. Click Here to read what she has to say about it.
AFT-W Convention, Oct. 24 - 26, 2013
The AFT-W Convention was held on October 24 - 26, 2013 at the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton. To see the results of the elections, go to AFT-W's website.
Solidarity Sing-Along Defense Fund
Sep 17, 2013: DOJ releases personal information, including Social Security numbers, for Solidarity Singers who were arrested: Isthmus article.
Sep 10, 2013: Madison Police Officer "Why I Sing": Capital Times article.
The Rightwing Attack on Public Employee Pensions
July 24, 2013 by The Progressive
"The rightwing argument that public employees bankrupted Detroit is incredible on its face. But it is part of an ominous national push to raid pensions, give away tax dollars to corporations, and impose austerity on regular working people."
In the Public Interest
“We are privatizing ourselves into one disaster after another. We’ve privatized a lot of what our military is doing. We’ve privatized a lot of what our intelligence agencies are doing. We’ve privatized our very prison system in many parts of the country. We’re privatizing the health system within those prisons. And it’s not working well.”