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Educators, Professors, School Districts, Unions Win Historic Effort to Block Trump Administration Attempt to Dismantle Department of Education

Welcome to AFSCME Council 93!
This afternoon, the Dartmouth College Library Workers Union Local 603 overwhelmi

In the first 100 days of the new administration, we have witnessed cuts to federal agencies, programs and proposed federal budget cuts that will devastate AFSCME members’ c

Project 2025, calls for the elimination of federal funding for Head Start, which would impact millions of low-income American families. Head Start provides quality early education to children birth to five and access to wrap-around services, while also employing over 250,000 adults, including dozens of AFSCME Local 1369 members in Vermont. The Trump administration is expected to put forth a budget proposal in May that would strip funding, further disadvantaging some of the most vulnerable among us.

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As you’ve seen in the news, the new administration is slashing the federal budget, laying off tens of thousands of public service workers – many of them veterans. Make no mistake  – this is not only a Washington, DC issue. It is going to affect all of us, whether we work for a state, county, city, town, school, or hospital.

Statement from AFSCME Council 93 Executive Director Mark Bernard on Governor Maura Healey’s decision to pause the closures of the Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children and the Pocasset Mental Health Center.
“We are grateful to Governor Healey for agreeing to take a