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AFSCME’s Saunders: As the economy sinks, senators vote to further enrich billionaires
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after the Senate passed a budget plan that opens the door to...
Apr 4, 2025
Unions, Retirees File Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Halt Unlawful DOGE Access to Social Security Data as New Facts Emerge
Filing Seeks to Restore Control Over SSA’s Data Systems and Suspend DOGE’s Unlawful Activity Until the Lawsuit is Resolved Baltimore,...
Apr 3, 2025
Unions Sue Trump Administration Over Move to Bust Federal Employee Unions
Lawsuit alleges union-busting executive order is retaliation against labor unions that have challenged the administration’s illegal...
Apr 3, 2025
AFSCME’s Saunders: Patients who depend on Medicare and Medicaid deserve better than Dr. Oz
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers...
Apr 2, 2025
AFSCME responds to ruling restraining shutdown of the U.S. Agency for Global Media and Voice of America
NEW YORK – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to...
Mar 28, 2025
AFSCME’s Saunders: Trump’s attempt to eliminate collective bargaining for federal workers is blatant retribution
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after the Trump administration signed a union-busting...
Mar 27, 2025
Journalists, Federal Workers, and Unions File Lawsuit to Challenge Closure of U.S. Agency for Global Media
NEW YORK, N.Y.— Today, journalists, federal workers, and their unions sued the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), its Acting Director...
Mar 20, 2025
AFSCME’s Saunders: Leland Dudek is willing to see millions of senior citizens suffer all because he didn’t get his way in court.
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after acting Commissioner Leland Dudek threatened to shut...
Mar 20, 2025
AFSCME’s Saunders: Shutting down the Department of Education amounts to one giant hit job on America's working families
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders responds to the Trump administration’s executive order gutting the Department of Education:...
Mar 19, 2025
AFSCME’s Saunders: The court agrees – hands off Social Security
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement in response to the U.S. District Court of Maryland granting a...
Mar 19, 2025
AFSCME’s Saunders: Cutting wages for workers and undermining unions is a promise broken
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after the White House moved to end the $15 minimum wage for...
Mar 14, 2025
AFSCME’s Saunders: We will continue to stand with workers and fight these efforts to destroy public service
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after President Trump signed an executive order Friday to...
Mar 14, 2025
Federal Court Orders Reinstatement of Fired Probationary Federal Employees
SAN FRANCISCO – Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, presided over by Judge William H. Alsup, granted...
Mar 12, 2025
AFSCME’s Saunders in response to Elon Musk implying public service workers are genocidal murderers: Musk has no clue what working people are going through
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after Elon Musk reposted a heinous and incendiary tweet in...
Mar 12, 2025
AFSCME’s Saunders: The mask is off – Elon Musk wants to cut Social Security
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after Elon Musk called Social Security ‘the big one to...
Mar 10, 2025
AFSCME’s Saunders on mass layoffs at the Department of Education: This is Project 2025 in action
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after the Department of Education announced it will be...
Mar 10, 2025
AFSCME’s Saunders: This retaliatory attack on TSA agents jeopardizes public safety
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security moved to strip...
Mar 10, 2025
Unions, Retirees Seek Emergency Relief to Block DOGE’s Unlawful Social Security Data Overreach
AFSCME, Alliance for Retired Americans, AFT Challenge DOGE’s Illegal Access to Confidential, Private Data of Hundreds of Millions of...
Mar 7, 2025
AFSCME’s Saunders: The PRO Act will loosen billionaires’ grip on our economic future
WASHINGTON – AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after a bipartisan group of House and Senate members...
Mar 4, 2025
San Jose’s Budget Crisis: The Fight to Protect Jobs & Services Continues
The City of San Jose has released its latest budget forecast, and while the projected shortfall has dropped from $60 million to $45.7...
Mar 3, 2025
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