AFSCME Council 5

08/30/2026

💚 We deserve to be paid properly for the work we do that Makes Minnesota Happen! Every community is run by public service workers who ensure we have safer streets, clean drinking water, and the programs and services our neighbors, students, and families depend on! 🫡

➡️ That all requires federal, state, and local government investments. And that is why raising revenue on multi-billion dollar corporations and the very wealthy is essential when they have garnered more than 85% of the wealth generated in the last few years and DOZENS of corporations paid NOTHING in federal corporate taxes in spite of their billions in profit. At the same time, we must ensure the public dollars we do have are not outsourced and privatized to unaccountable organizations.

💪 To fight back: Join your union, become active and engaged and take action, attend and participate in local union meetings, run for union office, attend trainings, conventions, lobby days, and so much more!

08/29/2026

Highlights of our AFSCME Council 5 family at the 47th AFSCME International Convention in Chicago! 💚💪🎉

08/28/2026

🔥🔥🔥 AFSCME Minnesota Council 5 won 3 PEOPLE awards at our 47th International Union Convention! “PEOPLE” is our union’s voluntary fund to support candidates who fight for our values in the halls of power and oppose those who seek to weaken or destroy worker power. This national recognition was earned by every PEOPLE contributor across our Council 5 family, our regional PEOPLE Committee chairs and members, and our Political Department team, as we fight for better, stronger, safer workplaces and communities for EVERYONE 🫡💚💪

Thank you. Lee Saunders, AFSCME President Patrick Moran, Elissa McBride, and AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Nicole Pollard 🎉🥳🥰

08/28/2026

At our 47th AFSCME International Convention… AFSCME Council 5 Vice President and Local 552 President (Hennepin County Probation and Parole) Latonya Reeves spoke POWERFULLY to honor and remember the life and legacy of District Council 37, AFSCME’s Lillian Roberts, her co-founding of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, and what it means for union members of color to participate in our union! 💚💪 CBTU MN - Region 6

08/27/2026

🎉🔥 Our AFSCME Council 5 union members will be volunteering at our AFSCME booth 10 out of 12 days at the Minnesota State Fair! Swing by, get some swag, and chat with your fellow union members! See us at the Minnesota AFL-CIO Labor Pavillion on Dan Patch and Cooper!

We’ll see you at the Great Minnesota Get Together! 💚💪

08/26/2026

🚨 TODAY, our union members in AFSCME Local 638 at Minnesota State University Mankato RALLIED with other labor and student partners on campus to fight back against the reorganization and layoffs that hurt workers and students!!! 💪💚🎉

Great job, AFSCME LOCAL 638 FAMILY and our allies!

AFSCME Council 5 President Eric Hesse, Executive Director Bart Andersen, Local 4001, Local 404, Minnesota & Dakotas Afscme Retirees United and others supported Local 638 today and showed their solidarity!

08/26/2026

💚💪 Our AFSCME Council 5 delegation stood up and made it clear at the AFSCME International Union Convention that an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. And Nico Montag of AFSCME Local 2829 (Council 5, Minnesota State Amalgamated) spoke so powerfully and personally on the countless attacks trans people face all across the country. Our AFSCME family resoundingly passed a resolution at the Convention to denounce these attacks and recommit ourselves and our union to fighting for fair and equal treatment and against discrimination and hate. 💚

08/25/2026

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Dolly Parton knew what it meant to struggle and never forgot where she came from. She spent her life lifting up working families, from giving children free books to giving working women that “9 to 5” anthem.

She was an icon, an inspiration, and a reminder that success means more when you use it to help others.

Rest in power Dolly.

08/25/2026

🚨 ⏰ JOIN US for a RALLY TOMORROW! We’re fighting against the reorganization and layoffs at Minnesota State University Mankato and our members in AFSCME Local 638 and labor allies are leading the way as we fight for workers, our students, and our community!

08/25/2026

Reminder, Members: If you wanted to submit a resolution to the 2026 AFSCME Council 5 Convention, learn how to format it, etc. you can drop into the Zoom meeting at the link below today at 12pm noon!

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8281636115?pwd=Hn0Ob89CVb4eQ3WwhS1edNgtkaXhTO.1

Meeting ID: 828 163 6115
Passcode: 1234