Local 8: Ramsey County

Local 8 comprises employees within five bargaining units covered by separate CONTRACTS in Ramsey County, Minnesota.

The units are

Assistant County Attorneys

General County

Professional Employees

Public Defenders

Public Health Registered Nurses

Cathy Malvin left) and Cindy Ramsey prepare for a worksite blitz

One Local's Direct Dues challenge

Cindy Ramsey is on fire.

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Public Service Loan Forgiveness: A Broken Promise

Megha Desai is a public defender in Multnomah County, Oregon. In a given week, she might work upwards of 60 hours. Right now, she has about 145 open cases.

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AFSCME Celebrates National Library Workers Day

All-knowing sources of information. Tour guides to the highways and byways of history. The friendly voice of a morning story time.

MLK Memorial 2019 I AM | Be The Change | AFSCME Video

We Carry on Dr. King’s Fight

Fifty-one years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to help rally the community around 1,300 AFSCME sanitation workers who had gone on strike.

Local 8 General Membership Meeting - Noon Monday 13 May 2019 in Plato Building Bluffs Room (2nd floor left-Public Health left).

At these meetings we discuss how our Local's dues are spent and workplace issues that need to be addressed as a group.