When confronted with management inaction in the wake of serious assaults on staff at their facilities, AFSCME members at Menard Correctional Center and Ludeman Developmental Center both took their fight for safe working conditions to the picket line.
For more than a decade, AFSCME members and allies have been fighting to rebuild the network of city-run mental health clinics that were shuttered, neglected or ignored. Now, after a relentless fight, real progress is finally being made.
Members of AFSCME Local 963, which represents nearly 170 building and food service workers at Northern Illinois University, kept their foot on the gas pedal throughout a year-long contract campaign. In the end, their efforts paid off.
As they began bargaining a new contract in early 2024, Rockford Public Library workers’ biggest priority was to expand health and safety procedures. After taking strong action, they succeeded in that goal.
The 52 school bus drivers and monitors from the Illinois Central bus company near Peoria have seen what AFSCME has accomplished for other school bus drivers in their region.
On June 11 and 13, hundreds of AFSCME members from Locals 1866 at Stateville Correctional Center and 2073 at Logan Correctional Center made their voices heard at two COGFA community hearings on the IDOC's proposed closures of those facilities.
Throughout the remainder of the summer, be on the lookout for additional ways to get involved in the Tier 2 campaign.
Throughout the remainder of the summer, be on the lookout for additional ways to get involved in the Tier 2 campaign.
Understanding the unfairness of Tier 2 and the challenges of fixing it
How to find out if you're on a Tier 2 pension, why lawmakers are so reluctant to address pensions, and more.
Employees at the Shedd Aquarium are blowing the whistle on management's anti-union misinformation and intimidation campaign.
After experiencing a sharp uptick in the number of on-the-job injuries and violations of their union contract, workers in the Evanston Public Works Department took to the picket line in an action that caught management’s attention.
“A lot of our new members came away seeing what organized labor can do and how it can impact members’ benefits and rights,” local president Jack Sadrakula said. “This contract was pushed through by the entire union."
The 20 employees of the Macon County Conservation District protect Macon County’s precious natural areas. Now they have a union to protect themselves.
At a Springfield hearing on May 10, AFSCME laid bare how detrimental the Illinois Department of Corrections’ proposed plans to close Stateville and Logan correctional centers would be for staff and individuals in custody.
John G. Shedd Aquarium employees announced on April 18 they are forming their union, Shedd Workers United, with AFSCME Council 31.
State legislation supported by AFSCME Council 31 would give county residents a stronger voice on questions of sales or closures of nursing homes.
After a DeKalb resident had given up hope of finding a family heirloom he lost after a slip on winter snow, David Block, a member of AFSCME Local 813, returned it against all odds.
These three candidates gathered enough signatures from fund participants to get on the ballot and to defend retirement security for state employees on the SERS pension board. All three have been declared the winners of the races.
On April 28 we observe Workers Memorial Day, a day to remember workers who have been killed on the job and to recommit ourselves to fighting for safer working conditions for all.