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		Welcome to AFSCME Montana Council 9 and its 1700 members serving Montana and 1.7 million members accross the United States, making AFSCME the largest Labor Union in the States. We are State, County, City employees, Law Enforcement, Corrections, Public Defender Attorneys-Investigators-Staff, School Support Staff, and Health Care Workers.

AFSCME Montana’s 52^nd Biennial Convention ROCKS




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		We want thank all Delegates, Alternates, out of state Guests, International Vice Presidents, Political Guests, Governor Brian Schweitzer, the Executive Board and Staff who attended the Convention May 28-30, 2009 in Helena. Council 9 revamped the format and location from previous years and we all agree the BARBEQUE ROCKED! Seriously though, everyone who attended the Convention appreciated the changes and commented on the positive adjustments Council 9 has made in the last year.

After eight difficult years of anti-worker labor policies imposed by the Bush administration, the nation’s new Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis received a rousing welcome during her March 24 visit to AFSCME headquarters. She met with President Gerald W. McEntee and other members of the union’s International Executive Board. McEntee said, “The most important thing to know about Hilda Solis is her heart. She has a heart for the people across our country who Make America Happen.”

Labor Secretary Tells AFSCME Leaders to Help Pass Employee Free Choice Act}

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis

Photo Credit: Luis Gomez

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today called on AFSCME members attending the union’s 2009 Legislative Conference to urge lawmakers to support the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which will make it easier for workers to form a union without being harassed and intimidated by employers.

The way to “put trust and faith” back into a system of employer-employee relations that has for years favored management “is by making sure we pass EFCA,” Solis told some 700 AFSCME leaders and activists. “So when you go home, make sure you call your legislators and you tell them they will be doing the right thing to allow people to associate” by forming a union.

Solis said the Department of Labor under the Bush administration sustained “dramatic cuts” in funding for programs that favor workers. “We lost so many good people,” she noted, particularly within the Wage and Hour Division – responsible for enforcing laws such as those concerning the minimum wage, overtime, family and medical leave and worker protections – and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, tasked with enforcing federal workplace safety and health laws.

She declared the Obama administration will hire more people in the Labor Department to make sure “all our laws are respected and enforced.”


	*Montana Council 9 AFL-CIO*


		*P.O. Box 5356*

*Helena Montana 59604*

	*mtafscme@montana*


	*406-442-1192 FAX 406-443-4710*


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