Make a Plan to Vote: Project 2025, City Charter Amendments; Honoring Bill Lucy
Bargaining with power; Join us! Upcoming meetings and Contribute! Share your story!
Make a Plan to Vote
Make sure our voices are heard. Make sure you're registered, and make a plan to vote by mail, vote early, or vote on Election Day.
Enter your address below to find everything you need to cast your ballot. Early voting starts Saturday, October 26: https://www.afscme.org/action/vote.
Project 2025
Trump’s plan ‘Project 2025’ would take away many of our hard-won rights and freedoms. Project 2025 calls for a complete ban on public sector unions like AFSCME and aims to make it harder for workers to organize unions in their own workplaces. Our contracts, benefits, representation and freedom to negotiate could disappear overnight. Project 2025 is a gift to Trump, his loyalists and his wealthy donors, to slash and privatize public services, strip power and freedom from working people and hand even more power to big corporations and the wealthy. Learn more at https://sayno2project2025.org/. Download a fact sheet to share with your coworkers here.
City Charter Amendments
Be sure to vote on the five amendments to the New York City Charter (aka the New York City Constitution), too. Learn more from City & State, Citizens Union, and City Limits, and read the City Charter Commission’s five (5) proposed revisions.
Honoring Bill Lucy
Bill Lucy: Rest in Power. Longtime AFSCME Secretary Treasurer and labor and civil rights icon Bill Lucy helped organize the Memphis sanitation workers iconic “I Am A Man” strike in 1968, co founded Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, and helped launch the Free South Africa Movement against Apartheid. We honor his memory and his fight for justice.
Bargaining with power
In late September, the Local 768 Bargaining Committee (BC) met up with other DC 37 locals in the Social Service bargaining unit. Throughout the day, dozens of members discussed the issues and proposals they see as necessary to address in these unit negotiations: protections around health & safety, transfers, additional compensation, and more. Having received input from hundreds of Social Services unit members to date, the Local 768 Bargaining Committee analyzed these surveys, turned them into concrete contract proposals, and advanced those very demands as the priorities of the Local. Contact the Bargaining Committee member for your title to learn more.
Members in the Health Services unit (click here to confirm which unit you’re in) will take part in a similar process soon. For those in Health Services, if you haven’t already made your voice heard, please fill out the survey TODAY. Your voice is critical for the Bargaining Committee to know what you find important!
Join us! Upcoming meetings
Join us for these upcoming events:
- Labor for Harris Rally · AFSCME DC 37 - October 23, 5 - 6:30 pm, City Hall Park
- General Membership - October 23rd, 7 pm
Be sure to get your free flu shot, and check out classes and education opportunities and other services here, via the DC 37 Education Fund.
Contribute! Share your story
Want to contribute to the next Local 768 Newsletter? Share your photos, your writing, your poetry, your drawings, your comics, cartoons, and more: https://www.local768.net/content_submission. Thank you!
