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Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, Bullying: It's Never Ok! - Message from Connie Derr, Council 18 Executive Director
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Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, Bullying: It's Never Ok! - Message from Connie Derr, Council 18 Executive Director

Here is vital information about AFSCME's role in addressing sexual harassment, and what steps you may take to reclaim safety and YOUR POWER at work. AFSCME stands for workplaces free from sexual harassment, discrimination, intimidation, bullying and any other type of inappropriate behaviors. AFSCME union power must be used to combat such behaviors and re-establish safe, healthy and respectful workplaces.

Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, Bullying: It's Never Ok! - Message from Connie Derr, Council 18 Executive Director

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BREAKING NEWS: BIG WIN FOR STATE EMPLOYEES AND THE SUPREME RIGHT TO VOTE IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS!
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BREAKING NEWS: BIG WIN FOR STATE EMPLOYEES AND THE SUPREME RIGHT TO VOTE IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS!

AFSCME and CWA filed the lawsuit against the State after the State Personnel Office stated state employees may not have time to vote without penalty, in direct conflict of the municipal code and state rules act. In his decision delivered this morning, Judge Thompson cited several court cases upholding the fundamental democratic right to vote, as there is “no right more precious” than the right to vote.

BREAKING NEWS: BIG WIN FOR STATE EMPLOYEES AND THE SUPREME RIGHT TO VOTE IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS!

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Grievant Faced 7 day suspension for throwing water bottle in self-defense of a vehicle assault.
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Grievant Faced 7 day suspension for throwing water bottle in self-defense of a vehicle assault.

Arbitrator orders Grievant made whole, and all discipline removed from file. Two New Mexico Department of Transportation employees were involved in an altercation that resulted in one employee being terminated for workplace violence and another being given a seven day suspension for defending himself. The aggressor had a history of antagonizing the grievant. At one point the aggressor pointed a grinder-sharpened trash-picker at the grievant’s chest. At the end of the workday, when the grievant was walking to his car, the aggressor drove his car directly toward the Grievant and struck him at least twice. The Grievant threw a water bottle at the aggressor’s windshield, shattering it, after having his leg injured severely enough to require transport to a hospital.

Grievant Faced 7 day suspension for throwing water bottle in self-defense of a vehicle assault.