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The Local 77 chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is a Duke University labour union established in August 1965. It initially began as the Duke Employees Benevolent Society in February 1965, led by Oliver Harvey.
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.
In 1887, Robert Kellerstrass, secretary of the Tin and Cornice Makers Association of Peoria, Illinois—a local sheet metal workers' union—began agitating for the formation of a national sheet metal workers' union. Contacting as many tinsmiths' locals as he could, Kellerstrass arranged for a founding convention to be held in January 1888.
Illinois’ largest state employee union has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, the union said. The two sides came to agreement in the hours after the union’s previous contract ...
The state and the nation's largest union of public employees will head to court over an arbitrator's decision that Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner was within his rights to order the layoffs of more than 150 state workers last year. [10] The state filed a suit before a Sangamon County, Illinois judge to uphold the arbitrator's ruling. AFSCME Council ...
Local 764: Theatrical Wardrobe Union; Local 783: TWU - Theatrical Wardrobe Union; Buffalo, NY; Local 798: Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists; Local 829: Exhibition Employees, Bill Posters, Billers and Distributors; New York, NY; Local 844: Radio and Television Sound Effects and Broadcast Studio Employees; Local 917: Casino Hotel Employees ...
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The union was formed on February 4, 1896 at a meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with 16 delegates from the local unions in Boston, Massachusetts, Buffalo, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland, Ohio, New York City, New York, Detroit, Michigan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh. [3]