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On January 18, hundreds of lawyers, judges, court clerks and mediators, as well as other workers and supporters, came together at a noon rally to highlight the toll of dire cutbacks in the LA Superior Court system over the past three years.

Thanks to everyone who donated warm jackets, coats, gloves, hats, socks, and other items for the homeless and needy since mid-December.

In a victory for Compton city workers and residents, the Compton City Council has approved a “side letter agreement” to existing employment contracts, which will preserve city jobs and frontline public services in the fiscally troubled city.

Since 2003, AFSCME has offered a scholarship program for students of color with the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program and the United Negro College Fund. The program gives college sophomores and juniors an opportunity to participate in a summer internship with AFSCME as a way of learning about the labor movement.

It was on April 3, 1968, that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to stand with AFSCME striking sanitation workers. That evening, he delivered the famous “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech to a packed room of supporters. The next day, he was assassinated.  More than four decades later, AFSCME honors and rekindles Dr. King’s dream in its everyday struggles to improve the lives of workers. Happy MLK Day!

Watch this brief TV news clip, one of many media reports featuring activists from Council 36 and across California at a press conference on pension reform at the State Capitol on December 1, 2011.

AFSCME District Council 36 'sBiennial Convention, which took place October 21-23, 2011 in Long Beach, put the spotlight on our members’ unique struggles and our shared victories.

The video clip here, produced for the Convention, highlights some of our Council’s spirited union activism, in Madison, WI, and right here at home.

Congratulations to our new Council 36 officers! (Click here to see swearing-in photo and elected officers list).

Report on Council political, organizing, and other achievements over the last two years here (Click here to see the report).

Read the Resolutions adopted by the Council at the Convention (click here for the resolutions).