Your Union In Action

AFSCME Council 17 and Louisiana Department of Health reach a Tentative Agreement

BY NAMITA WAGHRAY JANUARY 08, 2018 WORTH THE FIGHT

AFSCME Council 17 and Louisiana Department of Health reach a Tentative Agreement

Improving workplace safety at ELMHS — August 24, 2017

At labor-management meetings, our union team sits down with management regularly to talk about problems like safety, staffing, and ways to retain those of us that work in the more dangerous units in our facility. Labor-management meetings work.

Improving workplace safety at ELMHS — August 24, 2017

ULL-Sodexo workers win longevity pay for the first time - August 16, 2017

Good labor relations matter when union members meet with management to negotiate a new agreement. Members of AFSCME Local 1187 work for Sodexo at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL  Lafayette). Recently, they sat down with the company to negotiate a new four-year agreement.

ULL-Sodexo workers win longevity pay for the first time - August 16, 2017

How Did Your Representative Vote on State Employee Pay Raises? - June 14

How Did Your Representative Vote on State Employee Pay Raises? - June 14

State employees take their message to the public — The Jim Engster Show, May 23, 2017

AFSCME Council 17 member Shante’ Gibbs and analyst John Lacny were in studio with Jim Engster on the Louisiana Radio Network to join the conversation on budget cuts and their support of taking away exemptions from corporations.

State employees take their message to the public — The Jim Engster Show, May 23, 2017