Center City District report shows Philadelphia is 2nd in the nation for office occupancy levels. We're already back!

AFSCME DC47 member Kelli Gray talks about public service student loan forgiveness with United States Vice President @vp Kamala Harris! ❤️

Watch our VP/Legislative Director Robert Harris on Voices of Reason podcast by Politics PA.

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Be It Resolved, that AFSCME District Council 47 supports legislation that significantly reduces the excessive Pentagon budget without cutting pay or benefits of those serving in the US military...

Over 200 Penn faculty members have expressed their support for Penn’s graduate student workers organization, which faces an ongoing battle to unionize and gain University recognition.⁠

Happy 50th Anniversary to our dear union. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to everyone who joined us!

See our list of 2024 Primary Election candidates who support working families in PA.

See who is standing with working families in the 2024 Primary Election April 23 in PA. Candidate questionnaires posted.

We won! Our election is over and the NLRB has counted the votes. 93% voted union yes!! We are so proud of this decisive win, and excited to begin negotiating our first contract with Schuylkill Center management.

Catch Pat on NBC 10. In December AFSCME Local 2187 member Pat Lane was interviewed by NBC Philadelphia about the work that she does at the Philadelphia Police Department as a Forensic Scientist.

Our #Union continues to grow in 2024! Welcome to the family workers at Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education!

In 2024, AFSCME District Council 47 is continuing to build a coalition of workers for tomorrow. It’s time that we bring back the middle class and bring dignity and respect back to the American workforce...

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According to a report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, #union members earn 19%+ ⬆️ more than their nonunion counterparts! Even more when considering people of color & women.

Whereas, the AFSCME International Constitution calls for AFSCME International “to work with our brothers and sisters in other lands...

Get an additional four or eight free COVID tests from the federal government.

Rain.. What rain!? DC47 members were out and about door knocking in Philly the weekend of 9/23, talking to workers about the power of standing together & joining the #Union.

History made. As he stands with striking @uaw auto workers, @potus is now the first sitting U.S. President to visit a picket line.

Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants - labor isn't a special interest. It's all of us.

You want equity in the workplace??? Get yourself a Union!

We love our #Philly Zoo family! See this great article from the Phila. Inquirer on their latest contract deal.

DC47 #Union member Ari Gutierrez-Sanchez talks to NBC10 about programs that she runs at Phila. Museum of Art to bring art to Philly kids, & how unionizing the museum allowed a passion for art to turn into a career!

So very proud of our @afscme union family working at the @freelibrary. Supporting the Philly community is what we do. ❤

More and more people are discovering all that the union difference has to offer.

1968. Memphis, Tennessee. The heart of the racially segregated South. Black sanitation workers faced poverty wages and degrading, dangerous conditions on the job. The city refused to act. But after two sanitation workers were crushed...