AFSCME Local 3800 University of Minnesota Clerical Workers Union

The June 2008 edition of the AFSCME Local 3800 Newsletter is now available! Click here or click on the image below to view the online PDF version and print it out.

We will be distributing some copies of the newsletter in the workplace through our members in the workplace who are Campus Action Team (CAT) members. So some of you will get copies that way.

If you are a CAT and want to get copies to distribute, email our organizer to arrange to get your copies.

If there is not a CAT or union activist in your workplace, we encourage you to read the newsletter online or print it out and read it. If you are interested in being the union contact (CAT) in your workplace, email our organizer to get active!

December 2007 Newsletter

U of M Strike of 2007 - What We Faced, What We Accomplished

Local 3800 Newsletter Editorial 

The 2½ week strike of the clerical, technical and health care locals at the University of Minnesota has ended, but the discussion of the outcome of the strike, what we have learned and what we have gained, continues.

December 2007 Newsletter

Message from the Union President 

Taking Stock of the 2007 Strike 

By Phyllis Walker, Local 3800 President

In October 2003 hundreds of clerical workers at the University of Minnesota walked out and struck the University in the first strike at this institution in over 60 years. AFSCME Local 3800 stayed out for 15 days. We were fighting major takebacks in our contract. We were on the defensive.

The December 2007 edition of the Local 3800 newsletter is now available. This is the special 'post-strike edition' of the newsletter, with in-depth assessment of the strike - what we faced, what we accomplished, and how the union has been strengthened moving forward. And it has some great pictures from the strike too! Click here to see the December 2007 newsletter online (it's a large PDF file - please be patient if it takes a while to download to your computer).

The February 2007 edition of Local 3800's newsletter, Union Organizer is now available both in print and online. Click here for the PDF version of the newsletter, which you can view online or print out.

If you would be willing to give copies to your coworkers, please contact the union office at 612-379-3918 to arrange for someone to bring you a stack.

Click here to see our online archive of back issues of the newsletter.