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The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is the largest trade union of public employees in the United States. [2] It represents 1.3 million [1] public sector employees and retirees, including health care workers, corrections officers, sanitation workers, police officers, firefighters, [3] and childcare providers.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1921 1,901,161 [1] RNs, professional, technical and non-professional health care workers; public employees; janitorial and security employees. 2012: SEIU: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) 1932 1,459,511 Employees of state, county, and municipal governments. 2012 ...
In 1937, a number of AFSCME local unions, composed primarily of caseworkers, disaffiliated from that union and joined the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). [1] The CIO allowed these local unions to form the State, County, and Municipal Workers of America, and charged the new organization with competing with AFSCME at the state and local levels for membership. [2]
Public worker and teachers unions argued Tuesday that their lawsuit seeking to strike down a Wisconsin law that drew massive protests and made the state the center of a national fight over union ...
The first U.S. state to permit collective bargaining by public employees was Wisconsin, in 1959. [15] Collective bargaining is now permitted in three fourths of U.S. states. [16] By the 1960s and 1970s public-sector unions expanded rapidly to cover teachers, clerks, firemen, police, prison guards and others.
In 1932, he was a founding member of the Wisconsin State Employees Association, becoming its secretary in 1934. In 1936, the union became the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and Zander was elected as its president. [1] [3] The union grew rapidly under Zander's leadership, reaching 162,000 members by 1956.
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees people (48 P) Pages in category "American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
United EMS Workers-AFSCME Local 4911 was chartered in September 2011 under AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees) in order to represent EMS workers who are employed by private ambulance providers in the United States. United EMS Workers-AFSCME Local 4911 was founded through a partnership between a group of EMS ...