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     AFSCME Local 127 would like to recognize and applaud its members ofthe Transportation Department who have exceeded and surpassed expectations, despite a demanding workload.

     AFSCME Local 127 attended the AFSCME Int'l 46th Biennial Convention in Los Angeles.

     Recently, the Environmental Services Department of the City of San Diego invited a YouTuber to experience a workday from the perspective of a Sanitation Driver. Michelle Khare, a YouTuber with 3.55 million subscribers, spent a day documenting and collecting refuse with the Sanitation Drivers of AFSCME Local 127. Check out the link below, titled "I Tried Garbage Collection," to see her results and newfound appreciation for yourself: 

I Tried Garbage Collection - YouTube

AFSCME wholeheartedly supports the newly reintroduced Richard Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), which would make it easier for workers in the private sector to form strong unions. 

Understaffing of state and local government jobs has hit crisis levels.

Here are 10 things to love about your union on Valentine's Day — and every day of the year: 

The most pro-worker president in our lifetimes delivered the most pro-worker State of the Union address in recent memory.

Here are just a few highlights from President Joe Biden’s Tuesday night speech:

1. On the remarkable job growth of the last two years: 12 million new jobs are more than any previous president has created in four years in office. “Jobs are coming back, pride is coming back, because choices we made in the last several years,” Biden said.

In January 1993, Joann Mapp shared a powerful message on a conference call with newly elected President Bill Clinton. Mapp, a keypunch operator at the Philadelphia City Police Department and a member of AFSCME Local 1637 (District Council 33), was a single mother to 5-year-old twins.