News

I'm Union and I Vote Button AFSCME version

News

2025 Political Endorsements

22 Oct, 2025 Read More >

News

GSLC Annual Dinner 2023

30 Mar, 2023

Protect Workers’ Retirements from Wall Street’s Crypto Gambling

04 Aug, 2026 Read More >

Recent

Greater Syracuse Labor Council 2017 candidate endorsement process

The 2017 Election Season is upon us! The Greater Syracuse Labor Council, AFL-CIO is seeking your help in notifying all candidates pursuing our endorsement of the required steps and deadlines in this process. Our endorsement process is as follows:

20, Jul, 2017

Know Your Voting Rights

Important elections are coming this fall. In addition to electing the next president of the United States, we will be voting for members of Congress, and state and local leaders.

15, Sep, 2016

What It Means To Be an American

One night at his UPS job, Tefere Gebre's co-worker handed him some union material.

“He told me that I’d get health care and vacation and other benefits by filling it out. I said, ‘Are you serious?’ I thought, ‘Hmm. Everyone should have that.’”

02, Sep, 2016

Today’s Photo ID Laws Are Yesterday’s Beans in a Jar

Growing up in rural Kentucky, Augusta Thomas witnessed the extreme measures elected officials would take to prevent African-American men from voting.

24, Aug, 2016

On the 51st Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Now Is the Time to Restore It to Its Full Power

Anniversaries can be celebratory or somber. Today we celebrate the 51st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and it is the kind of anniversary in which we hail the success of the act, while also acknowledging the deficiencies in our democracy that make the full act necessary.

23, Aug, 2016