The Role of Public Employees in the 21st Century:

A Community Conversation

6:30 until 8:30pm on Wednesday, July 13th
St. Mary's Catholic Church
1062 Charnelton Street, Eugene

Learn How the Public's Hands Do the Public's Work!
See Where Your Public Investments Go!
Our Quality of Life


Bring your friends and loved ones!

Hosted by the Eugene-Springfield Solidarity
Network / Jobs with Justice (ESSN/JWJ)


Email: essn@efn.org

Phone: 541-736-9041

Dear AFSCME Sisters and Brothers,

Congratulations, you can thank Mitch Daniels for making you part of what he refers to as the "privileged elite."

But in reality, we know that nearly 300,000 public employees have lost their jobs in this recession. And many more have received furlough days. While budgets are balanced on the backs of public service workers, these anti-worker governors are handing out lavish tax breaks to corporate cronies and wealthy individuals.

Sick and tired of this? You can help fight back by contributing to AFSCME PEOPLE, our union's political action fund. AFSCME PEOPLE gives us the power and resources to fight back against anti-worker legislation and fight the LIES that hurt working families.

Every single time our opponents spout an outrageous lie or repeat a myth about public service workers, we need to be right there to debunk it. It's not an easy task, but we must keep at it. And countering the lies is only half the battle. We've got to go after the source if we are going to block legislation that seeks to destroy public services and hurt middle class families. That's where AFSCME PEOPLE comes in!

And we need you. By contributing just $2 each week (that's probably less than you spend everyday on coffee or soda at work) you can become an AFSCME PEOPLE MVP. As an MVP you'll be doing your part to fight back against these lies and put pro-worker candidates in office.

By funding our own political action program with the resources we need to compete, fight back and re-claim our rights, we will take back our country and reinvigorate the middle class. Join AFSCME PEOPLE NOW to make a difference for working families.

• Support pro-worker candidates in recall campaigns against six Wisconsin state senators who voted to strip workers of their rights. 
• Provide 2,500 fliers distributed to AFSCME members at a worksite to educate them about how Florida Governor Rick Scott's budget plan would harm the critical public services they provide. 
• Defray the cost of printing 17 booklets of "Recall SB 5" petitions in Ohio. 
• Spark 40 conversations at the doors of voters in Michigan urging them to fight back against Governor Rick Snyder's bill that would install emergency financial managers who are unilaterally stripping collective bargaining rights.

GERALD W. McENTEE President		LEE A. SAUNDERS Secretary-Treasurer

SEIU is negotiating a new contract with the Oregon University System (OUS). Here's a copy of the opening proposals:

Like Unions everywhere, SEIU is under attack. They have offered solutions to help close Oregon's budget gap, including an improvement to the staff-to-manager ratio, which is currently 2.5 staff to 1 manager. However, the state offers only cuts to workers.

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OUS managers will be negotiating the SEIU contract in the Erb Memorial Union (EMU) on Thursday, April 21. SEIU Local 503 is holding Big Purple-Up Day at the Ben Linder Room, EMU, at noon, including lunch. It would be great if some AFSCME folks could show up there, wearing green, in support.

See the video here, and ...

Contribute here!

This analysis on tax distribution is long, about 130 pages, but intesting and thought provoking. The information on Oregon is on page 90 per the Table of Contents, or page 96 in the PDF file.