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MSEA Family, The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) was found to be in violation of Articles 5 and 20 of the MSEA Collective Bargaining Agreement by failing to disclose all policies

The Michigan State Employees Association (MSEA) has partnered with the Michigan Corrections Organization (MCO) and Senator John Cherry to introduce Senate Bills 165 - 166 -167.

MSEA is partnering with Shattuck Great Outdoors in Portland, Michigan and hosting a gun raffle dinner to raise funds for our crisis fund.

The Michigan State Employees Association is hosting a golf outing to raise funds for our members in need. This event is open to the general public, our members and thier family and friends. The Gracewil Country Club in Grand Rapids, Michigan is hosting us this year and we will be leaving our registration open until July 1st 2024. The event will be a four person team scramble with a shotgun start at 9am. For more information please contact our Executive Assistant Jamie Lehman at [email protected] or (517)394-5900. 

Connecticut Rep. Jahana Hayes recently introduced a resolution calling on Congress to affirm its support for providing living wages, good benefits and fair working conditions to paraeducators, classroom assistants, bus drivers, custodial workers and others who are vital to our public education system.
AFSCME’s “I AM Story” podcast has received a nomination for an NAACP Image Award in the “Outstanding Podcast – Limited Series/Short Form” category.

Despite the growing wave of worker organizing across the country, the union membership rate last year ticked down slightly, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today, underscoring the importance of initiatives like AFSCME’s Staff the Front Lines to fill job vacancies in the public sector.

For John Campion, a monitoring officer with AmeriCorps, the potential for a federal government shutdown beginning this month brings fear, insecurity and frustration.

As the year comes to a close, I am celebrating the incredible surge of worker activism in 2023. Current and future members of AFSCME and many other unions were in the streets, on the picket lines, and at the bargaining table demanding fairness and respect. I want to also take a moment to recognize and celebrate some of the most inspiring activists in our AFSCME family: AFSCME retirees.