Organize for Your Future!

You Have A Right To Join A Union
 

Welcome to the AFSCME Council 57 page for information about how you and your co-workers can join AFSCME by forming a local union at your workplace or by affiliating with AFSCME if you are a member of an association that is not a part of another Union.

If You Want:
  • Job Security
  • The best negotiated wages & benefits
  • Dignity on the job
  • Your rights protected by a legal contract
  • A strong, honest, democratic organization to stand with you...

Join AFSCME District Council 57!

 
Welcome to AFSCME Council 57
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AFSCME Members know the value of our union contracts.

Take Your First Step

 

We work for state, county and municipal governments, school districts, public and private hospitals, universities, and nonprofit agencies. We are blue color, white collar, professional and paraprofessionals. We are clerical and office workers, court employees, health care workers, mid-management professional employees, skilled crafts, trades, maintenance workers, and social service professionals.

To get started, you can contact AFSCME directly. You will find a comprehensive program to help you organize a Union. Staff are available to work with you and provide the resources you need to learn more about why joining AFSCME is the best way to improve your work life.

Contact the AFSCME Council 57 office nearest to your location or Keith Uriarte, Organizing Director at 800-244-8122.

 

 

It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to...encourag[e] the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and [to] protect... the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, self-organization and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment or other mutual aid or protection.

National Labor Relations Act

AFSCME International Union
AFL-CIO