With members in hundreds of different occupations, AFSCME advocates for fairness in the workplace, excellence in public services and prosperity and opportunity for all working families.

With members in hundreds of different occupations – from nurses to corrections officers, child care providers to sanitation workers – AFSCME advocates for fairness in the workplace, excellence in public services, and prosperity and opportunity for all working families.

AFSCME is one of the nation's most powerful advocates for working families. AFSCME negotiates strong contracts, wins wage increases, protects jobs, settles grievances, stops privatization, and fights for health, retirement and other benefits for members from every field of public service.

Public sector means that you work for the government of the United States, a state, the District of Columbia, a territory or possession of the United States, a city, a municipality, a township, a county, a parish, or a similar government.

The American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor.

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was a national umbrella trade union organized in support of labor reform. The AFL's members were skilled laborers representing a variety of trades and crafts.

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) works tirelessly to improve the lives of working people. We are the democratic, voluntary federation of 60 national and international labor unions that represent 12.5 million working people.

For those in the industrial sector, organized labor unions fought for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions.

Unions have historically formed to ensure fair wages, benefits and better working conditions for their members.

(4) “State or local officer or employee” means an individual employed by a State or local agency whose principal employment is in connection with an activity which is financed in whole or in part by loans or grants made by the United States or a Federal agency, but does not include - (A) an individual who exercises no ...

Definition of Government Employee Federal Government Employee is an officer or an individual; 1. appointed in the civil service by one of the following acting in an official capacity- the. President; a Member or Members of Congress, or the Congress; a member of a uniformed.

Gompers opened the A.F. of L. to radical and socialist workers and to some semiskilled and unskilled workers. Women, African Americans, and immigrants joined in small numbers. By the 1890s, the Federation had begun to organize only skilled workers in craft unions and became an organization of mostly white men.