From April 15-18, AFSCME members will need to pick up the phone and call their lawmakers. We need to tell them that we work hard to serve the public, and we deserve a fair and equitable retirement.
These three candidates gathered enough signatures from fund participants to get on the ballot and to defend retirement security for state employees on the SERS pension board. All three have been declared the winners of the races.
With the Workers’ Rights Amendment in place, politicians couldn’t simply change the law to take away wages, benefits, workplace safety protections or other provisions of your union contract — the state Constitution would stand in their way.