American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees

American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), largest union of public employees in the United States. It began as a number of separate locals organized by a group of Wisconsin state employees in the early 1930s. By 1935 there were 30 locals that became a separate department within the American Federation of Government Employees. In 1936, AFSCME received its charter. By 1955, at the time of the AFL-CIO merger, the union had 100,000 members. The following year it merged with the 30,000-member Government and Civil Employees Organizing Committee. As of 1989, the union had over 1,090,000 members, excluding the 58,000 member Hospital and Health Care Employees Union which, as of 1989, became a member of both AFSCME and the Service Employees Union (SEIU).

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The organizations supporting New Jersey and Pennsylvania's lawsuit include: California Women Lawyers; Girls Inc.; If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice; Lawyers Club of San Diego; Service Employees International Union; American Association of University Women; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees AFL-CIO; American Federation of Teachers; Colorado Women's Bar Association; National Association of Social Workers; National Association of Women Lawyers; Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, and the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts.

NJ, PA win injunction blocking rules that would deny women no-cost contraception

But they'll be competing for cash and influence with another labor-oriented group known as Voices for Working Families, launched by Gerald McEntee, head of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. The latter group hopes to raise about $25 million for get-out-the-vote work; its board includes Gov.

Can Democratic interest groups unite to oust Bush?

The big givers included the SEIU, Communications Workers of America, the United Food and Commercial Workers, the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.

Labor Lost

Working with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, BUILD persuaded the city council and mayor to enact a law establishing a "living wage" for employees who work for city contractors.

How the church passes the buck to the poor

The United Auto Workers, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, the Service Employees International Union, the Communications Workers of America, the Teamsters, and others also sponsor conferences that include workshops on fighting sexual harassment on the job.

Misrepresented: women fight harassment and the union boys' club

Based in Tallahassee, the union is affiliated with the National Union of Hospital and Healthcare Employees and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, which is part of the AFL-CIO.

Fighting fire with fire: physicians blazing new paths to autonomy

* American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) carries out a series of disability-related activities at the international level; conducts an annual program to recognize and award affiliates with exemplary programs serving workers with disabilities; and publishes an annually updated comprehensive manual for AFSCME affiliates, Fighting for the Rights of Disabled Workers.

Enlisting labor union participation to insure expanded employment options

In the 1997-98 election cycle, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) was number three on the list of PAC contributions, with $2.4 million, all to the Democrats.

Free Money

When about a dozen nurses at Mountain View Hospital in Gadsden, Alabama, decided last January to sign up with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) after their third pay cut in 13 months, the hospital promptly fired 10 of the nurses and ran ads seeking replacements the same day.

The case for unions

Gerald McEntee of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees is reported to be anxiously awaiting an invitation to the Rose Garden.

Rush to compromise: labor hits the canvas for Clinton

He told the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees that he planned to shrink the country's distended bureaucracy by cutting 100,000 unnecessary souls from--wait for it--the federal payroll.

Gang of three; meet the real Democratic Party bosses: teachers' unions, government employees and the AARP