High school students preparing for college entrance exams can get a 60 percent discount on online preparation courses for the ACT or SAT.

The self-paced course provides 20-30 hours of online lessons. Students who register before Sept. 13 pay only $199.

Discounts are also available on in-person classes, personalized tutoring, graduate school prep classes and college readiness classes. Click here for complete details

AFSCME has created a Women's Online Network, where members can keep in touch, keep their leadership and activist skills sharp, and keep up to date on news that is especially relevant to women.

Members can also sign up to get a monthly electronic newsletter emailed to them. The network is administered by the Women's Leadership Program of the AFSCME Education Department.

Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on the U.S. Senate’s 61 to 38 vote this morning to end the filibuster on the Jobs Bill

We not only want you, we need you! We are looking for more work site stewards. We are the union and we need your support to organize and protect our rights.

ACTION ALERT: Call now to protect your job


Minnesota could lose $591 million and more than 9,000 jobs unless the U.S. Senate preserves FMAP funding that state, county and local governments desperately need. Nationwide, $26 billion and 900,000 public and private sector jobs are at risk. 

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Delegates to the 39th International Convention of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, (AFSCME), today elected Lee Saunders to be the next Secretary-Treasurer of the union representing 1.6 million public service workers.

AFSCME activists rallied Wednesday on Boston Common, in solidarity with Council 93, to prevent the loss of critical public services and to pass the jobs bill now stalled in Congress.