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Updated: Optical Benefit Increase, Delta Dental Credit Monitoring, 180 Livingston St. Move

ATTENTION: 180 Livingston Street is moving to 149 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HENRY GARRIDO

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HENRY GARRIDO

Update on Collective Bargaining Negotiations with the City of New York

Philadelphia Museum of Art workers begin strike over unfair labor practices for better wages, benefits

Faced with the management’s refusal to remedy unfair labor practices and address workers’ major priorities during contract negotiations, AFSCME Local 397 (District Council 47) – the Philadelphia Museum of Art Union (PMAU) – began a museum-wide strike Monday.

AFSCME partners to host webinars on public service loan forgiveness

AFSCME is committed to helping you get the student debt relief you deserve.

Thanks to the Biden administration, millions of public service workers, including AFSCME members, are eligible for student loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program or (PSLF). And even more public service workers are eligible under a temporary waiver that expires Oct. 31, 2022. 

As workers organize from coast to coast, approval of labor unions continues to rise

Graph of the Gallup poll.

As workers continue to organize throughout the country – from cultural institutions to 

Covid-19 Vaccine

130 Livingston St, Brooklyn

Wednesday and Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Please be aware the last vaccine of the day will be administered at 3:45 p.m. 

Eligible MTA employees can walk in during operating hours to get vaccinated.

MTA COVID-19 Employee Resource Center

A union voice can help address burnout among health care workers nationwide

The COVID-19 pandemic arrived at a time when our nation’s health care workers were already experiencing burnout. The National Academy of Medicine, in a report from 2019, said that 35% to 54% of nurses and physicians in the United States had “substantial symptoms of burnout.”

Then things got worse.

AFSCME Members, Family Members Awarded 2022 Union Plus Scholarships

Congratulations are in order for the 27 AFSCME Union Plus Scholarship winners. They are:

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