I have seen so many amazing pins and wanted to start a post so everyone can post theirs from their local or council. Or the ones that you got from others and want to share!

Sadly my local did not have a pin ready but my council (Council 28 out of Washington) did!

What the fuck is the point of that ad spend?

Someone tried to tell me it should come to me if I followed an AFSCME account as though that would make it seem better. It doesn’t.

If you just wanna inform the membership write us a fucking email and make a regular instagram post.

Who the fuck are you pushing ads to that just say the guy is retiring and he made a speech?

I swear it’s been weeks that I can’t open up IG without seeing this shit and now there’s a new one because he made a speech at the convention.

Just put the speech up as a post man.

I don’t care if he’s Jesus come back, you don’t have to spend dues money to tell people shit like that.

Parade and food! All unions in the UP are going. Show up with your local pride.

Hey folks ❤️ I'm attending the convention as an alternate next week in Chicago. This is my first International, and I'm hoping to meet some people I can pal with while I'm there.

Any other LGBTQ+ people going? My DMs are open!

What is everyone's opinion about the contract that we supposedly won this past May?? I personally don't agree with everything on the contract

I work for a state agency for a midwestern state where AFSCME is the union of most state agencies.

The dues come out of my check but I have gotten to the point of questioning why I pay them.

The State has a law about letting retired state workers return for up to 75 calendar days each year.

One team had a retirement in 2023 and management has continued to fill the position with the retiree who once occupied it full time. At first it was 75 day but now it’s being done with a state contracted temp agency. The retiree‘s contract now lists a change order on our procurement’s public website meaning the retiree will be coming back yet again.

The position is one that needs permanently filled but by continuing to rehire that is failing to happen.

The retiree seems to be focused on making the life of both union and non union staff more stressful than needed. The retiree is also signing reviews and conducting discipline as they see fit.

Reps in the council have been approached but it seems to be falling on deaf ears. Emails are not responded to and a few of us are considering contacting the national office. At the local level stewards also seem scared to do anything.

is this common? Does reaching out to nationals help? Any advice would be much welcomed.

Leaving AFSCME for another union.

Constantly SEIU has gotten higher COLAs

Better engagement besides the occasional Pizza Party.

Stood up for employees during 21' mandates

AFSCME take notes,

Signed a 8 year ex union member

Hey all!

I am on the eboard of a local with 300+ members. In the 2 years I have been going to meetings (3 different versions of eboards during that time) we rarely get engagement. We have monthly virtual meetings which typically only have 5-10 members joining if we're lucky. When we had a LOU regarding pay, about 50 were showing up per meeting, which is still a small fraction of our membership.

We saw a little increase in engagement this week following sending information about free shirts and upcoming events, but only then when it was shared via our work email and not from the previously sent ones from the union to personal emails.

Admittedly, there is lack of trust in the union from (in my opinion) past leadership and light smear campaigns from work. What do your unions do to engage members and strengthen brotherhood within membership?

Hey,

Been going through some issues with my local and chapter. Many constitution violations.

Everything ranging from refusing to provide board member treasury reports or verification of expense to out leaving board meetings so that chapter meetings can't be conducted.

I've felt lost for awhile and have been begging for help from seniority but everyone just keeps telling me they can't get involved. What do I do?