This morning the Arizona Supreme Court ruled on both the Sick Leave and Vacation Snapshot cases.

Unfortunately, the Court ruled in favor of the City on both.

We battled for 8 years against a city who wanted to impose changes without negotiating with us on reducing our pension and compensation.

For 8 years we fought for what was promised to us when we were hired and what many top level management received when they bailed ship during the recession.

AFSCME joined a virtual gathering of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, a movement that seeks to shift the moral narrative of our country and build power for poor and vulnerable people.

Economists of diverse backgrounds, who might otherwise disagree on a range of policy issues, spoke with a single voice on Monday on the need for Congress to provide robust aid to states, cities and towns.

Such aid, they said, is crucial in the midst of an economic crisis that is decimating state and local budgets and threatening essential public services that are critical to beating the pandemic and jumpstarting the economy.