Category: Legislative
The Illinois Primary Election in March will provide an opportunity to choose those candidates best able to carry forward the fight in defense of workers’ rights in the November election. Make your voice heard and VOTE!
When the Illinois General Assembly comes back into session, AFSCME’s lobbying team will be working to build support for Senate Bill 2269, legislation that would fund the remaining back pay owed to thousands of state employees since 2011.
AFSCME submitted written testimony to the Joint Hearing of the Senate and House Veterans Affairs Committees on January 9 regarding the health crisis at Quincy Veterans’ Home.
AFSCME members in the Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice are advocating for safer policies in response to increasing assaults on staff—and among offenders—in correctional facilities. Watch their testimony at a Dec. 5 legislative hearing.
On Dec. 1, Republicans in the U.S. Senate rushed through a massive rewrite of the federal tax code that is nothing more than a giveaway to corporations and big business, with middle class families left holding the bag.
U.S. Senate Republics are pushing frantically to follow the House's lead in passing legislation that would drastically reshape the American tax code—tilting it ever more toward corporations and the super-rich and undermining pensions in the process.
On Nov. 16, House Republicans—including every Republican representative from Illinois—passed a major revision of the tax code which gives big tax breaks to corporations.
After repeatedly coming up short of votes, President Trump and Congressional Republicans are finally admitting defeat in their years-long quest to repeal (and not really replace) the Affordable Care Act, leaving millions without health insurance.
After cutting child care for 30,000 children, Gov. Rauner restored some of the cuts to the Child Care Assistance Program. Then pretended the cuts weren’t his in the first place.
More than 300,000 Missourians signed petitions demanding a public vote to repeal a new state right-to-work-for-less law, effectively blocking its implementation.