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June 19, 2013
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Updated: Jun. 19 (12:02)

More than 20 advocacy groups call on Gov. McCrory, lawmakers to keep families from going over unemployment cliff on July 1
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AFSCME at a glance

 

AFSCME represents more than 1.6 million public employees and health care workers and retirees throughout the United States. They include employees of state, county, and municipal governments, school districts, public and private hospitals, universities and non-profit agencies who work in a cross section of jobs ranging from blue collar to clerical, professional and paraprofessional. AFSCME is organized into more than 3,500 local unions, most of them affiliated with one of 60 district councils. Local unions and councils have their own constitutions, elect their own officers and administer a wide variety of local affairs. The International Union coordinates issues of concern to all AFSCME members and provides research, legislative, legal, organizational, educational, public relations and other services.

 

In Indiana and Kentucky, AFSCME Council 62 represents over 17,000 public and health care workers. The union’s membership is evenly divided between health and hospital employees, blue-collar workers and social service/counseling professionals. AFSCME Council 62 represents employees from Louisville, Kentucky to Gary, Indiana and in between. The union’s central office is in Indianapolis where state employees as well as those working for the City of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Public Schools, Wishard Hospital, IUPUI, and Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library to name a few are all represented by AFSCME Council 62. Throughout the two states the union represents employees in over seventy-six state, county, municipal, school, and health care jurisdictions.

 

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AFSCME Council 62 has over 80 affiliated local unions in Indiana and Kentucky. AFSCME Council 62 was chartered in Indianapolis, IN on June 15, 1963. The union’s Executive Board and Director are elected by convention every four years. Each local union elects its own officers and sets its own dues rate and all full dues paying members have a right to attend meetings and vote on all local activities – including their contracts.

HISTORY- AFSCME began as a number of separate locals organized by a group of Wisconsin state employees in the early 1930’s. By 1935 there were 30 locals which became a separate department within the American Federation of Government Employees. In 1936, AFSCME was chartered by the American Federation of Labor. By 1955, at the time of the AFL-CIO merger, AFSCME had 100,000 members. The following year, the Union merged with the 30,000-member CIO Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee. In 1957, AFSCME moved its headquarters from Madison, Wisconsin to Washington, D.C. Recent organizing successes, including Indiana’s state employees, have brought the union’s membership past the 1.3 million mark.


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What's New at AFSCME 62
Pension Reform 2013 Alert!
Today the Senate State and Local Government Committee adopted a committee substitute to HB 228, housekeeping legislation for Kentucky Retirement System, dealing with pension funding that will have “cash balance” language and let PEW/Arnold Researchers once again have its way!! Please contact House Democrat and Republican Leadership and tell them we want full funding for pension fix, but no “cash balance” as soon as possible. THE GREEN SLIPS ARE AT AN ALL TIME LOW, WHICH MEANS NOT ENOUGH CALLS ARE BEING GENERATED TO LEGISLATORS! Call Toll free number 1-800-372-7181.
Council 62 stands with brothers and sisters in Connecticut
Our staff and members were shocked and horrified to learn of Friday's events in Newtown, CT and our thoughts and prayers are with all of the families affected by this senseless tragedy.

Many of the first responders are members of AFSCME, and we join AFSCME president Lee Saunders, Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy, and President Barack Obama in praising these individuals for their heroic response to Friday's shooting.

Council 62 represents thousands of school employees in Indiana and Kentucky, and we are committed to working closely with school administrators to strengthen safety and security procedures so that our members and the children and families they serve never have to endure what the Newtown community has endured.

Finally, we would like to echo the words of Diann Woodard, President of the American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA, AFL-CIO):

"We must come together more than ever and demand that our legislatures take action in response to this atrocity. We must ensure that proper safety measures are put into place to protect our students, teachers, and principals. Above all, we must take care of one another."

Go to www.afscme.org to write a note of condolence to the people of Newtown, CT.

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