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We are a union of nearly 900 members representing workers within the St. Peter Regional Treatment Center, including the Forensic Mental Health Program (FMHP formerly MSH), Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP), Forensic Transition Services, and the Forensic Nursing Home. We also represent workers at the Community Behavioral Health Hospital (CBHH) in Rochester. We fight for dignity and respect in the workplace with better wages, better benefits, and better working conditions.
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AFSCME National Updates
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We won’t be silent about the shutdown
The longer this shutdown continues, the more our health care and our jobs are in danger.
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In Pennsylvania, corrections officers demand urgent action to fix understaffing crisis
Pennsylvania corrections officers fight for better staffing.
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Houston public health worker warns, ‘When you cut public health, you cut lives’
Charles Morris, a member of AFSCME Local HOPE 123, warns that the government shutdown is robbing his community of critical public health funds.
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On Florida’s Gulf Coast, AFSCME members win new contract and recognition for their service
Members of AFSCME Local 1718, who keep Venice, Fla., running, fought for a strong new contract.
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As government shutdown drags on, AFSCME Retirees are taking action
As the federal government shutdown drags on, AFSCME retirees are urging their lawmakers to end the shutdown by lowering health care costs and funding public services.
AFSCME members make America happen.
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.