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AFSCME Member Efforts Reap Elections Success

Thanks to help from AFSCME members, numerous worker-friendly candidates won Tuesday’s election outright or are leading in the polls.

AFSCME Member Efforts Reap Elections Success

Top Leadership Changes at Council

AFSCME Council 5 has a new executive director.

John Westmoreland, the former assistant director, started his role Nov. 1.

He replaces Council 5’s founding director Eliot Seide, who is retiring.

Top Leadership Changes at Council

Anti-worker ‘Insanity’ in Iowa Could Happen Here

Danny Homan says he’d give up his right arm to not have to tell AFSCME Council 5 members the story he was about to tell.

 “This hurts,” he says. “What they have done to public employees in Iowa, 184,000 of them, is criminal.”

Anti-worker ‘Insanity’ in Iowa Could Happen Here