Search Results for AFSCME

...Joseph E. Hower Abstract Drawing on union convention proceedings, reports, newspapers, speeches, and internal memoranda, this article uses the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) as a case study to explore organized labor’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis. One...

... by literally reassembling them.” Joseph Hower also sheds light on histories linking carcerality to AIDS. He offers a labor history of AIDS through the US public sector union AFSCME, whose members range from hospital staff to laboratory workers to prison guards. Hower shows that AFSCME, propelled by gay...

... bookstore workers’ organizing conference (“Resist Retail Nihilism,” 2005), and eventually succeeded in unionizing the Minneapolis store, making it one of the few union-­staffed Borders bookstores in the country.3 From the University of Minnesota clerical workers’ strikes in 2003 and 2007 (AFSCME 3800...

... by the United Farmworkers to organize strawberry workers in California.The students were adult workers and they belonged to public sector unions in New York City; most were members of CommunicationsWorkers of America, Local 1180, and AFSCME-District Council 37, which subsidized their tuition so...