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DC 37 Retiree, 

We wanted to share with you some follow-up information from our recent membership meeting held on Thursday, August 29th, at 10:00AM. 

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Dear AFSCME DC 37 Retirees Associati


JUDICIAL PANEL CASE NO. 24-015

District Council 37 Retirees Chapter Administratorship

In this year’s State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden highlighted his administration’s achievements over the past three years and vowed to continue fighting for working people.

AFSCME applauds his accomplishments and strongly supports the Biden-Harris administration’s vision for the future, which includes defending our nation’s democracy, protecting a woman’s right to choose and making the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes, among other things.

The public sector has finally recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic. At the end of last year, there were 22,000 more public service jobs in the nation than in February 2020, just before the pandemic started.

This is cause for celebration for everyone in our communities, but especially for workers of color, who have been historically overrepresented in state and local government jobs.

Connecticut Rep. Jahana Hayes recently introduced a resolution calling on Congress to affirm its support for providing living wages, good benefits and fair working conditions to paraeducators, classroom assistants, bus drivers, custodial workers and others who are vital to our public education system.
AFSCME’s “I AM Story” podcast has received a nomination for an NAACP Image Award in the “Outstanding Podcast – Limited Series/Short Form” category.

By Anna Berry, Assoc. Recording Secretary

From Jan. 11-14, 2024, a delegation of DC 37 retirees attended the AFL-CIO’s “Dr. MLK Jr. Civil & Human Rights Conference” in Montgomery, Alabama. The theme for this year’s conference was “Our Voice, Our Ballot, Our Future."

Despite the growing wave of worker organizing across the country, the union membership rate last year ticked down slightly, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today, underscoring the importance of initiatives like AFSCME’s Staff the Front Lines to fill job vacancies in the public sector.

For John Campion, a monitoring officer with AmeriCorps, the potential for a federal government shutdown beginning this month brings fear, insecurity and frustration.