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U.S. Supreme Court Case Seeks to Take Away Union Rights

A case the U.S. Supreme Court is taking up this term called Janus v. AFSCME could make the entire public sector “right-to-work” in one fell swoop.

U.S. Supreme Court Case Seeks to Take Away Union Rights

January

January

Anti-worker ‘insanity’ in Iowa Could Happen Here

Danny Homan says he’d give up his right arm to not have to tell AFSCME Council 5 members the story he was about to tell.

“This hurts,” he says. “What they have done to public employees in Iowa, 184,000 of them, is criminal.”

Anti-worker ‘insanity’ in Iowa Could Happen Here

AFSCME Member Efforts Reap Elections Success

Thanks to help from AFSCME members, numerous worker-friendly candidates won Tuesday’s election outright or are leading in the polls.

AFSCME Member Efforts Reap Elections Success

Top Leadership Changes at Council

AFSCME Council 5 has a new executive director.

John Westmoreland, the former assistant director, started his role Nov. 1.

He replaces Council 5’s founding director Eliot Seide, who is retiring.

Top Leadership Changes at Council