Category: All News

Look, I know that public school teachers should never complain when our union mistreats us—we’re supposed to be “union strong” and never air the dirty

As the Reading Eagle recently reported, Adelle Schade of the Albright College Science Research Institute and Ellen Albright of the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance have inaugurated the first citizen-led 3D Printer initiative to mass-produce medical masks

AFFT Pennsylvania Director Keith Williams was featured in TribLive on Apr. 3, 2020. Anyone who has stood in front of a classroom knows: You must

Boy, the world changed fast in half a week.  We know some of you might be home from work for a while, wondering what to

This week, lawyers for storied Illinois government worker Mark Janus filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court. They are seeking a refund of union “fair share fees” that Janus paid to AFSCME in Illinois over a five-year period from 2013 to 2018.

In the heart of Washington, DC, in the halls of the U.S. Department of Labor, officials are considering a new rule that would require more unions across America to be transparent about their finances and membership.

We’ve long argued that the major state and national unions like SEIU, AFSCME, and the AFL-CIO have been doing a poor job recently in representing their workers. Free to Serve members across Pennsylvania, in fact, tell us that very thing. So it’s encouraging to see news this year out of Philadelphia that shows the little guy can fight the big corporate union—and really shake things up.

What’s up with SEIU lately? The national union, with its 1.9 million members and massive Washington, DC headquarters in stylish DuPont Circle, has recently been facing one scandal after another.

In the year after the Janus ruling, each Pennsylvania union saw membership grow nearly 5 percent. AFSCME now has 52,883 members, while SEIU has 16,507.