Americans for Fair Treatment Director Keith Williams has an encouraging editorial at TribLive.com about the importance of principled courage—even when you’re in the minority.
I have been a state employee for 18 years. Since 2009, I’ve worked at a Berks County state hospital represented by SEIU 668. For that entire time, I and my co-workers have watched our contracts get worse and our union leaders lie and brush off rank-and-file concerns.
Today marks one year since Janus v. AFSCME, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck a victory for government worker rights by banning forced union dues. This month, Americans for Fair Treatment is also looking back on a year of fruitful work since we ramped up our outreach efforts with our Free to Serve project.
A funny thing happens when workers stand up to big and overbearing national unions: they win
In case you missed it early this month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a ruling to protect the subsidies going to disabled Americans in need of round-the-clock home care.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Janus v. AFSCME decision, which outlawed mandatory “fair share” fees for Pennsylvania public employees, is almost a year old, but many government workers still don’t know their new rights. That’s why on May 16, 2019, Free to Teach, a project of Americans for Fair Treatment, mailed
New legislation that would require new and non-union public-sector workers are notified of their rights regarding union membership was passed by the Pa. House Labor and Industry Committee, today. The Employee Rights Notification Act (HB 785), which would also repeal state laws that violate the Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court
When Francisco “Cisco” Molina was growing up, boys like him had only two destinations: prison, or the graveyard.
William H. Neely III has got to be frustrated. He’s worked as a psychiatric aide at Wernersville State Hospital in Berks County for 15 years, and belongs to AFSCME, the public-sector union whose “agency fees” for nonmembers were declared unconstitutional in the Supreme Court’s Janus decision.
