Council News

Attention: AFSCME District Council 20 is moving March 23, 2025. Our new home is 1140-3rd Street, NE Suite 202 Washington DC 20002 (Uline Arena)

Jan. 23, 2024

Council News

Union membership numbers show momentum remains strong despite staffing shortages

Despite the growing wave of worker organizing across the country, the union membership rate last year ticked down slightly, the U.S.

Union membership numbers show momentum remains strong despite staffing shortages

Jan. 09, 2024

Council News

As a government shutdown looms, AFSCME members voice alarm and frustration

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

As a government shutdown looms, AFSCME members voice alarm and frustration

Jan. 03, 2024

Council News

Elmore Nickleberry, Memphis sanitation worker who went on strike in 1968, dies at 92

[caption align="right"] Elmore Nickleberry, Memphis sanitation worker who went on strike in 1968, dies at 92 [/caption]

Elmore Nickleberry, Memphis sanitation worker who went on strike in 1968, dies at 92

Dec. 19, 2023

Council News

Retired from the job, but not from activism

As the year comes to a close, I am celebrating the incredible surge of worker activism in 2023. Current and future members of AFSCME and many other unions were in the streets, on the picket lines, and at the bargaining table demanding fairness and respect.

Retired from the job, but not from activism

Dec. 11, 2023

Council News

Latest jobs report shows public services are ‘on the way toward a full recovery’

AFSCME President Lee Saunders applauded the latest federal jobs report, which showed the U.S. economy gaining 199,000 jobs in November.

Latest jobs report shows public services are ‘on the way toward a full recovery’