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AFSCME honors public safety professionals during National Law Enforcement Week

National Law Enforcement Week gives us an opportunity to recognize the sacrifices and contributions of America’s public safety professionals.

Memphians Reflect on Dr King's Service and Sacrifice; by WMCActionNews5.com Staff

A year-long commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ahead of the 50th anniversary of his death begins Tuesday.  April 4, 2017, marks 49 years since Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis. Before the 50th anniversary of his death, the city of Memphis will celebrate the life and legacy of MLK. … At 3 p.m., an MLK50 commemoration will take place from the balcony of the Lorraine Motel at the National Civil Rights Museum, featuring keynote speaker Gwendolyn E.

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Members like Tyler Moroles, a program analyst at the Minneapolis Housing Authority. Moroles helps families receive housing vouchers for rental assistance.

My work reaches 16,000 people and 5,500 families," he says. “These are families that could be you…If you lost your job, you're just a couple of paychecks away from being that family."

Rachel Cooper Never Quits

"If you feed a child," says Atlanta school cafeteria manager Rachel Cooper, "you nourish that body... that mind... that spirit."

Cooper loves the educational aspect of her job, teaching children about nutrition and health — that food doesn't have to be junk to taste good! When she makes kale, for example, she knows she may be introducing something new into a child's diet and could be creating healthy habits to last a lifetime.

What is AFSCME Strong?

For too many years, public service workers (and actually most Americans) have seen their job security, wages and benefits, and retirement security erode — even though for the top 1 percent things have been great. Now, when it’s our turn to make things better for our families, they’re trying to cripple our union. We’re not going to let that happen.

We have a plan and the power to protect the jobs, financial security and future of AFSCME members. That plan is AFSCME Strong. We know that in order to survive we need to be strong.