Preserving the public sector during Public Service Recognition Week

This week, Public Service Recognition Week, we salute the many AFT members who are public employees—police officers and judicial system professionals, addiction counselors, water safety regulators, road service workers and government clerks, to name a few. The threat to public sector jobs proposed by the upcoming Supreme Court case, Janus v. AFSCME, and the decline in wages and working conditions for many of them, mean the union must continue to shine a light on their valuable work and to fight for fair pay and safety on the job.