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Jan. 09, 2024

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As a government shutdown looms, AFSCME members voice alarm and frustration

For John Campion, a monitoring officer with AmeriCorps, the potential for a federal government shutdown beginning this month brings fear, insecurity and frustration.

As a government shutdown looms, AFSCME members voice alarm and frustration

Jan. 03, 2024

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Elmore Nickleberry, Memphis sanitation worker who went on strike in 1968, dies at 92

[caption align="right"] Elmore Nickleberry, Memphis sanitation worker who went on strike in 1968, dies at 92 [/caption]

Elmore Nickleberry, Memphis sanitation worker who went on strike in 1968, dies at 92

Dec. 19, 2023

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Retired from the job, but not from activism

As the year comes to a close, I am celebrating the incredible surge of worker activism in 2023. Current and future members of AFSCME and many other unions were in the streets, on the picket lines, and at the bargaining table demanding fairness and respect.

Retired from the job, but not from activism