9th Annual AFSCME Public Safety Blue Breakfast and Lobby Day
"Ready for the Fight,
AFSCME is the Way!"
Thursday, January 25, 2018
RSVP Today!
8:00AM - 1:30PM
breakfast served at 7AM
Call AFSCME Council 18 at 505-266-2505. RSVP or click here to register online. Attend this dynamic event, hear from leading voices in our field, lobby state legislators and local elected leaders in support of legislation and budgets that value the importance of our work.
The 9th annual AFSCME New Mexico Public Safety Blue Breakfast and Lobby Day brings together our brothers and sisters from New Mexico public safety locals to share, hear from one another, and national experts on our career issues, and take action at the legislature to improve New Mexico.
This year's theme is, "Ready for the fight, AFSCME is the way!"
Whether it is fighting to ensure we have proper equipment, staffing, enforced policies that protect us, or competitive pay and benefits, AFSCME is our voice, leading the struggle and galvanizing our victories.
2018 Presentations:
Using Evidence to Prevail in Arbitration:
T. Zane Reeves, Regent Professor Public Administration, UNM & Member, National Academy of Arbitrators
National Cases Defending Member Rights
Ed Fishman, Administrator of the Legal Defense Plan
Impact of Federal Legislation on New Mexico Public Safety
Mike Messina, AFSCME International
Understanding Prison Gang Activity in New Mexico
Mark Myers, Chief of Staff NMCD Retired
Panel Discussion: Unions Making Public Safety Careers Safer
AFSCME New Mexico Local Members
State of Our AFSCME Union, crises and opportunities of 2018
Connie Derr, Council 18 Executive Director, AFSCME International Vice President
Making Public Safety Careers safer through legal defense, recent cases
Shane Youtz, AFSCME Chief Attorney - Making Public Safety Careers safer through legal defense, recent cases.
Federal Legislation: impacts on National and New Mexico Public Safety
Mike Messina, Assistant Director of AFSCME International Research and Collective Bargaining Department
Call Garrett's Desert Inn to reserve rooms using the AFSCME Blue Breakfast block: 505-982-1851
AFSCME puts safety first, ALWAYS!
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