Category: News
Hennepin County Commissioners Discuss Funding Future of HHS Facilities Downtown
The Hennepin County Board of Commissioners held several committee meetings on Tuesday while taking public comment for the first time. The largest dis [...]
Hennepin County Commissioners Open 2025 with Swearing-in Ceremony
The Hennepin County Commissioners held their first meetings of 2025 on Tuesday. Due to maintanance at the Government Center, meetings are being moved [...]
Breaking Down the 2025 Hennepin County Budget: Disparity Reduction and Public Works
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Breaking Down the 2025 Hennepin County Budget: Health and Human Services
It’s a new year in Hennepin County, Minnesota and we enter 2025 with a more than $3-billion-dollar budget, second to only to the entire state’s budge [...]
Hennepin County Commissioners Approve $3 Billion Dollar Budget and Labor Agreements for Six AFSCME Locals
The Hennepin County Board of Commissioners approved a more than $3 billion bu [...]
Contract Campaign – 2024
We continue to bargain with AFSCME Locals 552, 1719, 2864, 2938 to get the best contract possible.
Our AFSCME Local 34 Table Team members, who ne [...]
Contract Update – 2/24/22
AFSCME Siblings,
Thank you to the Hundreds of you who showed up for our Informational Pickets on 1/19, in sub-zero wind chill tempera [...]
How to vote on the County’s LBFO Contract Offer
Hennepin County has sent AFSCME Members what they are calling their "Last Best and Final Offer" and the table team has not made a recommendation on w [...]
Taking Care of our Health!
Hey folks. A few of our activists have shared some deeply personal and scary physical traumas in the past week or so. And within each, there's an a [...]
2021 Contract Negotiations!
Our contract ends at the end of 2021 and we are organizing to gain an even better contract starting in 2022! After having sent out our survey to [...]