Coming Soon
- June 30 Statement by AFSCME President Gerald McEntee on Senator Brown and Jobless Benefits
- June 30 Out of Time: Struggling Families Hoping for Assistance Shafted by Congress AFSCME Rallies to Demand Aid, Promote Jobs, Protect Services
- June 30 Thousands to Rally Today to Protect Vital Public Services Nation’s largest public service union to rally today on Boston Common to promote jobs, stop devastating cuts to key services
- June 30 Rally on Boston Common Part of National Effort to Pass Jobs Bill Efforts are underway throughout the nation to urge Congress to end the GOP filibuster on the jobs bill and enact legislation to help the unemployed and states dealing with unprecedented budget shortfalls.
- June 30 Patrick signs $27.6b budget; seeks money to extend health coverage for legal immigrants by Michael Levenson and Noah Bierman, Boston Globe AFSCME president Gerald McEntee singled out proposed cuts to Boston libraries, calling them, "wrong, insulting, and unfair." He led the crowd in chants of "Show some guts! Stop the cuts!"
- June 29 City Council passes Menino budget by 11-2 vote by Gintautas Dumcius, Dorchester Reporter (MA) …One by one, the city councillors voted as as several hundred members of the AFSCME union, which represents library workers, chanted outside of City Hall.
- June 29 Public service union in a fighting mood by John Wojcik, People's World 5,000 public workers gathered here for the 39th convention of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees are in a fighting mood – a mood they displayed frequently on day two of their assembly.
- July 01 McEntee protege wins no. 2 spot at AFSCME by Kevin Bogardus, The Hill Lee Saunders, executive assistant to McEntee at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), won election as Secretary-Treasurer for the nation's largest public sector employee union.
- July 01 McEntee protege takes key union spot by Ben Smith, Politico Saunders is best known for having taken over New York's corrupt Local DC37 after a scandal and successfully ended an era of corruption there.
- June 30 City scrambles to save custodian, librarian jobs by Andrew Ryan, Boston Globe “What I got was a commitment from the mayor to sit down and see what can be done to save even more jobs at the Boston Public Library,’’ said Jennifer Springer from AFSCME Council 93.
- June 30 Labor Movement, Governors Press For Congress To Pass Jobs Bill That Would Save Nearly A Million Jobs by Doug Cunningham, Workers Independent News In Boston, AFSCME members rallied to support the bill as the AFL-CIO rallied outside the offices of seventeen Republican senators who helped block the jobs bill last week. (link goes to mp3)
- July 01 Patrick signs a painful budget by Noah Bierman and Michael Levenson, Boston Globe “Some of the most vulnerable citizens in Massachusetts will be in danger if these budget cuts go through,’’ said Gerald W. McEntee. “But we won’t let the politicians balance the budget on our backs, not anymore.’’
