AFL-CIO Delegates Elect Trumka, Shuler and Holt Baker
"Anybody who dares raid an AFL-CIO union, 1000 organizers will come to the defense of that union being raided and they will never let it happen again."

"Today, there are 7 million Americans working in state and local government who don’t have the legal right to collective bargaining. They’re teachers and firefighters.  Social workers and sanitation workers.  They truly do make America happen.  Sisters and brothers, first-rate public employees aren’t second-class citizens – they deserve the right to organize and we’re going to fight to see they get it!"   Richard Trumka

As you have by now probably heard, AFSCME is on the Highway to Health Care!

Haven't heard? Let us explain: Congress is on recess this month — but we're not. Health care isn't working for America's middle class. It's too expensive and too uncertain. And it's crippling our nation's economy. That's why we've rented an RV and converted it into a mobile action center for a month-long road trip of our own. We'll crisscross the country — to states and districts where the most important votes are — to keep the pressure on Congress to fix health care and to do it now.

AFSCME's PEIA proposal to Governor Manchin
Similar letter sent to PEIA Chair Robert Ferguson - Responses received
July 30 meeting from 1 till 3 at DEP Building Charleston - www.westvirginia.com/peia/

AFSCME Local 598 pickets the City of Huntington ~ July 2009
Photos and details
Mayor Agrees to Talk Contract with Members of AFSCME Local

AFL-CIO Turn Around America Rally - 2009
 August 2 ~ 1:00 PM ~ WV State Capitol 

Council 77 Newsletter for Spring/Summer with Session wrap up

AFSCME membership: Benefits, Questions and Answers

 Lobby Day at the Capitol - 2009

About 75 committed Council 77 members from around West Virginia traveled to Charleston on ice covered roads to attend their annual Lobby Day Event always held on a state holiday - President's Day. Influential elected officials spoke to the group in the morning and the afternoon was spent attending appointments with legislators from member's home districts and watching the House and Senate in session discussing new laws of the state. Collective Bargaining, pay increases, longevity compensation and reducing insurance costs topped the day's legislative agenda. For more photos, click here.

Council 77 Vice President Pat Jack introduces Delegate Mike Caputo, a Democrat representing Marion County. Mike serves as the Majority Whip in the House of Delegates as well as working for the United Mineworkers as a representative. Delegate Caputo talked about  the process for passing a collective bargaining bill.

WV AFL-CIO President Kenny Perdue listens to the legislators before telling members how well the 3 AFL-CIO unions who represent state employees work together. AFSCME, CWA and UMWA all represent different segments of state employees.

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American Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees, Council 77, AFL-CIO
represents thousands of public employees
and retirees all over the state of West Virginia.

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