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In 1935, after meetings between Zander and AFL President William Green, AFSCME became a chapter within the American Federation of Government Employees. AFSCME received a separate charter from the AFL in 1936. [11] In the 1930s, AFSCME was primarily a union for white-collar civil service workers, including librarians, social workers and clerical ...
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO/AFSCME) is a United States labor union which represents air traffic controllers at a number of locations. PATCO/AFSCME is a division of the Federation of Physicians & Dentists – Alliance of Healthcare and Professional Employees , an affiliate of the American Federation of State, County ...
District Council 37 (also known as DC 37) is New York City's largest public sector employee union, representing over 150,000 members and 89,000 retirees. [1] DC 37 was chartered in 1944 by AFSCME to represent public employees in New York City.
In 1921, 14 retired federal government workers met to form an association to protect the hard-earned retirement benefits of federal civilian employees, retirees, and their survivors in the organization that would become NARFE, [3] but not for everyone. In the first two months after the Civil Service Retirement Act took effect in 1921, more than ...
Federal employees' right to organize and bargain binding labor contracts was established in law by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, which AFGE helped to draft, and which states that collective bargaining in the federal sector is in the public interest while also barring the right to strike.
Below is a list of unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO. Since the founding of the AFL in 1886, the AFL-CIO and its predecessor bodies have been the dominant labor federation (at least in terms of the number of member workers, if not influence) in the United States .
Lee A. Saunders is a leader of the labor movement in the United States.He was elected to succeed Gerald W. McEntee as President of the 1.6 million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), one of the largest and most politically active unions in the AFL-CIO, [1] on June 21, 2012, during the union's 40th International Convention in Los Angeles. [2]
AFSCME Council 31 has "100,000 active and retired members", [1] including "approximately 40,000 state employees working in more than 50 departments, authorities, boards, and commissions under the authority of the Governor." [2]