When was afscme founded

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World War II ends; the postwar period is marked by a wave of strikes as workers — 3. Eight states pass laws that would penalize striking public workers; Congress passes the Taft-Hartley Act, which restricts private-sector unions and makes it easier for employers to break strikes.

A series of strikes and demonstrations in New York City pressures Mayor Robert Wagner to sign an executive order granting collective bargaining rights to unions representing city employees; under leadership of District Council 37 President Jerry Wurf, AFSCME begins winning elections that make it the strongest public worker union in the city.

President John Kennedy issues Executive Order , legitimizing collective bargaining for federal employees and creating a favorable atmosphere for all public employees. Sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn. Martin Luther King Jr. William Lucy is elected secretary-treasurer of the International union; a lifelong civil rights activist, Lucy worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nelson Mandela. In Pennsylvania, some 46, AFSCME-represented state workers strike for fair wages — the first legal, large-scale strike by public employees.

City workers in San Jose, Calif. Fighting For Civil Service. In , as the country suffered through the worst economic depression in its history, a small group of white-collar, professional state employees met in Madison , Wisconsin. The leader of the group, Col. Garey , was the director of the state Civil Service system, and the reason for the group's creation was simple: basic survival. Wisconsin state employees held their jobs based on competitive civil service examinations and there was genuine fear that state politicians might attempt to return to a political patronage, or "spoils" system.

Roosevelt's coattails into office. And sure enough, in January, a Democratic senator introduced a bill in the state legislature that would dismantle the state's civil service system.

Meetings were held, marches and demonstrations were organized, and WSEA leaders lobbied hard—and successfully—to defeat the bill and save the civil service system. WSEA was now on the American labor movement's map and Arnold Zander , a state personnel examiner, became the group's driving force. Zander began promoting the idea of a national union of state, county, and municipal employees and by , state employee associations had emerged in several states. Growth did not come easily at first.

A union for public employees was sailing in uncharted waters with no patterns or precedents to guide it. The union's primary tactic was lobbying to pass or strengthen civil service laws. Voter information What's on my ballot?

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