Members of AFSCME Local 1303-112 (Rocky Hill Town Employees) are celebrating a new contract along with multiple lessons they learned about the process of negotiations.
Have you received The Freedom Foundation’s new anti-unionization campaign targeting members of the AFSCME Council 4’s members?
The Freedom Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on the dismantling of public sector unions in the United States, has its sights set on your AFSCME Council 4, as well as our fellow unions in The State of Connecticut.
Agencies across our state continue to face chronic understaffing, exacerbated by ongoing recruitment and retention challenges. From healthcare and higher education to transportation and public safety, vital services that residents rely on are stretched thin, with workers burdened with the impacts of double and triple workloads. The result is a crisis that threatens Connecticut’s quality of life.
Ron Nelson, President of AFSCME Local 749 (State Judicial), was elected as President of Council 4 in April 2024, and was recently reelected as Local 749 President. Nelson has served as a Juvenile Detention Officer with the State of Connecticut’s Division of Criminal Justice since 2007 – but he had been a union member long before his career in public service, as a carpenter for 12 years in Local 210 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters.
This Veterans Day, Council 4 is honoring two members who served in the United States Armed Forces. Whether it is service in the Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard, Council 4 thanks all veterans for the sacrifices they have made to protect our freedoms.
Roberta Price officially retired this summer after 36 years as a state employee—including 11 years as President of AFSCME Local 610 (NP-3/State Administrative Clerical)—and an additional 11 years as a Council 4 staffer.
In recognition of her dedicated career, the Connecticut General Assembly honored Price with an official citation for her “faithful service” in “fighting for safe working conditions and a decent way of life for Connecticut citizens.”
