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In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while in Memphis, Tennessee to support a strike by the African-American sanitation workers' union, AFSCME Local 1733. [15] By 1969, AFSCME was unionizing 1,000 new workers each day. The organization saw its greatest period of growth in the 1970s. In 1973, AFSCME concluded a three-year organizing ...
In 1937, a number of AFSCME local unions, composed primarily of caseworkers, disaffiliated from that union and joined the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). [1] The CIO allowed these local unions to form the State, County, and Municipal Workers of America, and charged the new organization with competing with AFSCME at the state and local levels for membership. [2]
Optional plan forms of government, which operate similarly to optional charter forms of government, were made available to all municipalities and counties in 1972. They both allow the municipality to adopt a form of government that differs from the general forms that municipalities are typically subject to, but do not change the municipality's ...
Workers will rally at 5:15 p.m. Monday at Kesey Square. City workers represented by AFSCME are pushing for a fair contract after months of negotiation
The Millcreek Township Municipal Building is shown Jan. 14, 2021. On Nov. 5, township voters will be asked to vote on whether to establish a commission to study the township's government with an ...
How to know if your local gov't is following the law. Gannett. Bruce Siwy, Erie Times-News. November 20, 2023 at 4:36 AM. Pa. Pressroom is a regular recap of politics in Harrisburg and Washington ...
Local municipalities can be governed by statutes, which are enacted by the Pennsylvania General Assembly, and are specific to the type and class of municipality; by a home rule municipality, under a home rule charter, adopted by the municipality; or by an optional form of government, adopted by the municipality. [3]
He played a key role in the passage of Act 195 – the Pennsylvania law granting state government employees the right to organize and collectively bargain – in June 1970, after arranging a picket of 5,000 public workers outside the Pennsylvania State Capitol two months earlier. [2] [3] He then talked those employees into joining AFSCME. [1] [3]