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AFSCME Local 1653 President & furloughed FAA employee Dan Ronnenberg: We can have health care. We can put federal employees back to work. We can have SNAP. Those things are not mutually exclusive.

AFSCME member and health care worker Dawn Burfin warns rural Minnesotans will lose access to critical care if anti-worker extremists continue to stand in the way of lowering health care costs.

Tell Congress to lower health care costs: 1-888-981-9704 #HealthCareHeist

We won’t be silent about the shutdown The longer this shutdown continues, the more our health care and our jobs are in danger.

The longer this shutdown continues, the more our health care and jobs are in danger.

Anti-worker extremists got us into this mess, but together we can fight our way out of it if we get organized. Now isn’t the time to be silent. www.afscme.org/blog/we-wont...

Food assistance should not be a bargaining chip.

40 million Americans could lose access to SNAP benefits on Nov. 1 if Congress fails to take action.

Tell them to end to this assault on working families by lowering health care costs and funding public services.
📞1-888-981-9704

We took the administration to court and won!
AFSCME members and federal worker supporters gathered outside of today’s court hearing to protest the illegal mass firing of federal workers in the middle of a government shutdown.

Anti-worker extremists refuse to lower health care costs for working people and retirees. They'd rather make greedy billionaires even richer. Join AFSCME retirees like Kay Smith and tell your members of Congress to lower health care costs and fund public services: 1-888-981-9704

BREAKING: AFSCME and AFGE granted a block on illegal mass firings.

Workers win.

Kaiser holds $66 BILLION in reserves, yet refuses to give health care workers the fair pay and benefits they deserve and safe staffing they need to do their jobs.

America’s unions stand with the 46,000 workers at Kaiser on a 5-day strike fighting for a fair contract!

Shutting down the government won’t hide the health care crisis that anti-union extremists have started.

Fund the government. Fix the health care crisis. And put working people first. www.afscme.org/press/releas...

AFSCME is proud to back @sbworkersunited.org baristas.
It's time for Starbucks to respect workers by finalizing a fair contract that secures the support, pay and protections they need to do their jobs.

RFK Jr. can't be trusted with our nation's health.

Under his direction, HHS has:

❌ laid off thousands of federal public health workers
❌ clawed back funding that keeps our communities healthy
❌ slashed funding for vaccine research and spread disinformation, endangering everyone

The U.S. added just 54,000 jobs last month, well below expectations.

At the same time jobless claims increased to 237,000

RFK Jr. wouldn’t last a day in the shoes of the AFSCME members who work on the front lines providing health care.

He’s a billionaire sellout who has wormed his way into our public health system & is now intent on decimating it to benefit greedy corporations at the expense of our health.

Elon Musk's DOGE continues to put hundreds of millions of Americans private Social Security data at risk.

A new whistleblower says there is NO oversight to monitor how our data is being used or shared by DOGE's inexperienced and irresponsible minions. #HandsOffSocialSecurity

We will NEVER stop fighting to protect Social Security – whether from DOGE, privatization or any other threat. Social Security belongs to the people, not greedy billionaires.

A screenshot of a tweet from the Department of Labor that says “AMERICAN WORKERS FIRST!” with photos of a banner of President Trump’s face on a banner hanging off of DOL headquarters.

Is that what the Trump administration calls gutting the union rights of over 400,000 workers?

Trump hasn’t put “American workers first.” He's been the union-buster in chief.

🙌 Hundreds of AFSCME members are at the @aflcio.org #BetterInAUnion bus tour in Anaheim, California to demand answers from Rep. Young Kim for why she voted to raise costs on California’s working families & threaten the public services we all depend on.

HAPPENING NOW: We’re marching on Rep. Young Kim’s office in Anaheim, CA to ask a simple question: How dare you vote to cut services at local hospitals, nursing homes and schools to pay for more billionaire tax breaks?

Perry: Absolutely disgraces me. I’m one of those people it’s going to cost $1,200 more. For what? To give billionaires another $13,000 they don’t need or deserve? Absolutely not. My message to Scott Perry is this: you really need to take care of the people who voted you in to begin with.

Today, marks 16 years since the federal minimum wage was last increased. Since then, CEO pay has increased by 91%.

What's the best way to strengthen worker power and secure family-sustaining wages? Get Organized.

@udw.org member Charlotte Neal joined the Protect Medicaid Vigil on the National Mall to make clear that AFSCME members and care providers will never stop fighting to #ProtectMedicaid. We all deserve the freedom to get ahead and that means having good health care.

The Protect America’s Workforce Act will override Trump’s union-busting executive order and safeguard more than 1 million federal workers’ voice on the job.

We urge Congress to hold a vote on this critical legislation now.

We are incensed by the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the administration to unlawfully dismantle the Department of Education in direct violation of the Constitution. Our children, educators and nation will suffer great harm if this agency is shuttered.

www.afscme.org/press/releas...

Remember this when kids are going hungry, when seniors and their families can't afford long-term care, when you get those higher medical and energy bills every month.

And remember the tax cut they gave billionaires like Jeff Bezos when he throws himself another $50 million party.

Congress just sold out working families to hand another tax break to billionaires who don't need them.

We will hold every elected official accountable who voted to betray our communities and hurt working people.

Read Pres. Saunders' full statement: www.afscme.org/press/releas...

Call Congress: NO Budget Cuts Take action & tell Congress: Stop the billionaire tax breaks. Save public services and fully fund Medicaid and other programs we all depend on.

Keep up the pressure! The Senate has been debating amendments on the budget for nearly 24 HOURS. They haven’t been able to pass it because Senators know that cuts to Medicaid and public services will hurt their communities.

Call your Senator this morning!

“The people that make those decisions for us, don’t have to look a patient in the face…and see the damage that they’re causing. I do.”

Rachel Chapin, a registered nurse, urges all of us to call our members of congress and say no to cuts to Medicaid. 202-559-1165

Nearly 900 elected officials oppose public service cuts to pay for billionaire tax cuts Nearly 900 state and local elected officials pen letter to Senate, warning of harmful cuts.

In an effort organized by AFSCME, almost 900 state and local elected leaders sent a bipartisan letter to the Senate detailing the dangerous costs of passing anti-worker extremists’ cruel budget bill. www.afscme.org/blog/nearly-...

An image in red, white, and black is titled, "So far, Trump's masked ICE agents have abducted or detained:". It includes a bulleted list of individuals allegedly affected: U.S. citizens, kids with cancer, legal residents, a queer makeup artist, kids in foster care, high school students, tourists, busboys and waitresses, college activists, a union leader, a congressional aide, and a Democratic mayor. To the right of the list is a collage of black-and-white photos depicting a close-up of a person's eyes, a makeup palette, an agent in tactical gear holding a crying toddler, an agent grabbing a screaming woman, an officer in a mask with "ERO" on his vest, a backpack with school supplies, and a person on the ground being detained. At the bottom, bold red text states: "Everyone has a right to due process. Trump's use of ICE is unaccountable and dangerous."

If one person doesn't have due process, none of us do.