It's time Illinois has a tax system that works for everyone, not just the wealthy few. That's why AFSCME members are joining with other working people in Springfield on April 30th for the Fair Tax Day of Action.
In the SERS trustee election, your vote is your voice. Vote Melissa Garman to fight for your retirement security!
AFSCME Council 31 members in good standing and children of AFSCME members who are high school seniors or college students under the age of 25 are eligible to apply for these $2,000 college scholarships.
"Libraries are a place where you are welcome to sit, learn, think, read and explore any idea."
"Libraries offer more than books. Libraries support and strengthen the foundation of our democracy—the free exchange of information and ideas for all."
“The union plays a huge role in fighting for fair wages and good benefits for all workers. Without the union, I’d have to work two or three jobs to get by.”
Candidates who garnered AFSCME backing based on their pledges to stand with working families won in local government elections across the state on April 2. These are the results in contested races where the AFSCME regional PEOPLE committees took action.
Rockford public schools bus drivers of AFSCME Local 1275 banded together to oppose District 205’s plan to outsource school bus services to a private, for-profit corporation—and they prevailed.
“Raising needed revenue from those who can afford to pay a little more—while cutting taxes for 97 percent of filers—is the fair tax reform that’s long overdue in Illinois," AFSCME Council 31 Executive Director Roberta Lynch said.
AFSCME Local 805 President David Morris, Local 2081 President Stephen Mittons and Local 1805 member Jeremy “Tad” Hawk were re-elected on Feb. 21.
Rockford school bus drivers of AFSCME Local 1275 are voicing opposition to the RPS 205 school board’s plan to outsource school bus services to a private, for-profit corporation.
AFSCME-backed candidates fared well in the first round of voting in the city's municipal election on February 26. The run-off election is April 2.
Chuck Mattmiller, member of AFSCME Local 203 and correctional officer at Centralia Correctional Center, was awarded the Illinois Law Enforcement Torch Run’s Special Olympics Illinois Flame of Hope: “It gives me a joy and honor.”
More than 500 delegates from AFSCME local unions across the state braved single digit temperatures, wind and snow to gather in Springfield for the biennial AFSCME Legislative Conference to set the union’s 2019 legislative agenda.
Bill Daley and Willie Wilson have problematic political alliances and downright dangerous positions—both lost their bid to be Chicago's mayor.
In September 2017 AFSCME Local 448 member Pamela Knight, a DCFS child protection specialist, was sent to take a two-year-old child into protective custody. As she got out of her car, Knight was attacked. She died as a result of her injuries on February 8.
The Pritzker administration has told state agencies to put employees on their rightful steps no later than April 1.
The Supreme Court entered an order granting "in part" the State's motion for an extension to decide whether to appeal the appellate court’s finding that Bruce Rauner had wrongly broken off state contract negotiations based on a false claim of impasse.
The Chicago City Council voted to create a task force to study mental health services available and make recommendations to improve the city’s public mental health safety net. CDPH employees, members of AFSCME Local 505, played a key role in this fight.
Through their union, AFSCME, human services employees spoke out against a push by the Illinois Department of Human Services (DHS) to close its office—known as a family community resource center—in Havana. Now the decision is being revisited.