Today is Custodial Appreciation Day! We're grateful for all AFSCME custodians who go above and beyond to ensure their workplaces clean, safe, and welcoming for all.
Tim Walz stands up for workers' freedoms. He's signed legislation to provide paid sick leave for Minnesota workers, protect reproductive rights, expand voting rights, ban captive audience meetings & ban noncompete agreements. #VPDebate2024
Project 2025 will slash child care funding, making it harder for providers to keep their doors open.
@KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz have a plan to invest in the care economy – supporting both workers and families. #VPDebate2024
“Under #Project2025 our contracts will be canceled, our unions banned, & billions of dollars slashed from essential programs that working families rely on.”
- AFSCME International Vice-President and Council 65 Executive Director Shannon Douvier.
This isn’t a gaffe and he didn’t just misspeak — Trump said this in Michigan on Friday and Pennsylvania today. Trump cut overtime for millions of Americans as President — and his Project 2025 agenda will do it again.
Eligible workers in Minnesota have a right to at least one hour of earned sick and safe time for every 30 hours worked, up to at least 48 hours of accrued sick leave a year. Learn more about this right & more at https://t.co/z9ydzY16El. #WorkplaceRightsWeekMN#DerechosLaboralesMN
“Lucy was a heavyweight of the American labor movement… In 1968, he traveled to his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, to help resolve the sanitation workers’ strike, marching shoulder to shoulder with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as the workers sought the city’s recognition of their union, AFSCME Local 1733.”
@GovTimWalz has declared this week #WorkplaceRightsWeek. What rights do you have as a worker or an employer? Learn more and sign up for our webinars this week at https://t.co/z9ydzY16El. #DerechosLaboralesMN
It was an honor to welcome our next Vice President @Tim_Walz to the Northland today! I’ve never met a leader who cares so deeply about the people he serves. @GovTimWalz
Our Pro-Labor DFL-Majority changed lives for countless working families by simply making school meals free for every public school student. Let’s build on our historic progress by keeping our Pro-Labor Majority in the Minnesota House and Senate. #BetterInAUnion#labor2024#mnleg
As Vice President, @KamalaHarris cast 👏the tie-breaking vote 👏 on the Inflation Reduction Act, capping the price of insulin at $35/month & out-of-pocket prescription drug costs at $2,000/year for seniors. #Debate2024