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Newly negotiated contracts with some 78,000 Commonwealth employees and their unions are slowly trickling in. In June, we reported on how a worker lawsuit against SEIU Local 668 prompted the union to drop the contract requirement that members resign only during a 15-day exit window.

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.

When Francisco “Cisco” Molina was growing up, boys like him had only two destinations: prison, or the graveyard.

This week, PennLive.com ran a joint editorial from Mark Janus–the storied plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME–and Keith Williams, head of Americans for Fair Treatment (and parent organization for Free to Serve).

Yesterday, to kick off National Employee Freedom Week, we rejoiced (again) over the fact that government workers are no longer required to pay for union representation they did not want. Union supporters, however, argue that any employee who doesn’t pay for union representation is a freeloader.