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President's Message
As a local, we can take care of the more immediate and particular needs of our members, but we cannot lose sight of the bigger picture. In the nationwide tide of anti-unionism, no local is and island we need our parent union, for backup and clout. We need AFSCME. AFSCME'S 21st Century Initiative Delegates attending the AFSCME International Convention in Chicago on August 8 approved the key components of its 21st Century Initiative, a reform strategy to combat the nationwide anti-labor movement. AFSCME's plan includes the creation of a $60 million war chest to expand worker power and reclaim rights threatened by the assault by President Bush and the Republican-led Congress. Members will pay a dues increase $3.00 per month to be phased in over the next three years. The union will fund new organizing drives, open a leadership institute, mobilize a 40,000 member army of volunteer political activists. It is important that our members understand the necessity for supporting our parent union by pay our dues. We need AFSCME. As we approach the mid-term elections, candidates can be heard around the nation blaming Labor Unions for the high cost of living - everything from the price of a quart of milk to the economic rape we're currently suffering at the gas pumps. We need to backup our parent union to vote out anti-labor candidates and long-time anti-labor elected officials who tell the public that the remedy to high prices is to break the labor unions, take away collective bargaining, take away their ability to protect members' jobs, raise salaries and cut workers' pensions and health benefits. AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee sounded the call to arms, "The 21st Century Initiative is how our union will become stronger and hold politicians accountable for this unmitigated assault on our economic security and basic workplace rights." We need to support AFSCME as a partner in all of its nationwide efforts on behalf of municipal workers and their families. In union there is strength.
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