CHESHIRE CORRECTIONAL COMPLEX EMPLOYEES 

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**Retiree Picnic---September 18, 2010 at Prospect VFW  11AM to 6PM**

 

1842 Meriden-Waterbury Tpke.
PO Box 679
Milldale, CT 06467

Phone: (860) 621-7367            Fax (860) 621-7397  

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Next Monthly Meeting is Thursday October 7, 2010 at 7PM.  For more information please click on Monthly Agenda or Directions.

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A Message from Local 387 President Dwayne Bickford:

Welcome to the official website of AFSCME Local 387. If you are a member of Local 387 we hope you will come here often for information as well as updates.  You will also find information that is linked directly from both Council 4 and AFSCME International websites.

 Click on About Local 387 for contact information and directions to the union office.

   
Please be sure to browse all of the pages and feel free to contact the local with any comments or suggestions as we continue to build our site.

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You will find recent labor related news stories below.

 

 

Wall Street greed and double-dealing sparked much of the nation’s recent near-financial collapse, yet many in the chattering classes instead are attacking public employees for this rolling recession.

Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on the U.S. Senate’s 61 to 38 vote this morning to end the filibuster on the Jobs Bill

Our members are standing up to political and media attacks on public employees and our pensions.

Delegates to the 39th International Convention of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, (AFSCME), today elected Lee Saunders to be the next Secretary-Treasurer of the union representing 1.6 million public service workers.

AFSCME activists rallied Wednesday on Boston Common, in solidarity with Council 93, to prevent the loss of critical public services and to pass the jobs bill now stalled in Congress.

Delegates to AFSCME's 39th International Convention pay tribute to former Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy, a giant of the labor and civil rights movements.

Our members in New Haven are fighting the DeStefano administration's efforts to destroy good jobs in the community.

Our members who collect, process and protect the blood supply for the American Red Cross in Connecticut are part of a national coalition holding ARC accountable for its treatment of workers and donors.

The 4-Word is the official membership publication of Council 4, reaching nearly 40,000 active and retired members. Get the June-July 2010 edition online.