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.
HARTFORD, Conn. – Nearly 630 people attended a job fair held in Hartford on September 6 in conjunction with an AFSCME Staff the Front Lines bus stop.
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont and Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin joined AFSCME President Lee Saunders, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, AFSCME Council 4 Executive Director Jody Barr and local AFSCME union members for a bus stop press conference on the urgent need to fill open public service positions throughout the state.
With Council 4 leading the way, paraprofessionals across Connecticut won a huge victory in the ongoing fight for dignity and fair treatment, with the creation of the Paraprofessional Healthcare Subsidy Program – a one-time $5 million stipend that will pay up to 74 percent of out-of-pocket-health care costs.
Did you know there are hundreds of thousands of public service job openings all across the country? That's a lot of jobs! We're talking about positions like clerical, maintainers, custodians, social workers, dispatchers, and many more.
Please donate to our union’s Fallen Heroes Fund so we can send help to members affected by the wildfires in Hawaii, particularly those in the island of Maui.
In addition to Council-hosted trainings, the AFSCME Education and Leadership Training Department is launching the AFSCME Labor Lab, which will provide high-quality training and leadership development for AFSCME leaders, stewards and staff, allowing them to enhance their union activism anywhere, at any time.
Waterbury city workers have something more to celebrate. Over 400 blue-collar workers with AFSCME Local 353 won a contract that will provide generous wage increases over four years without major increases in their health care costs – an unprecedented accomplishment they never expected.
The contract which was approved in May, with wage increases retroactive to June 2022, includes a new salary schedule with higher minimum and maximum wage rates, along with an overall average wage increase of 13.6 percent. Other highlights of the contract include:
