Union members have always found time to help out their communities. Click here to read about laid-off Taylor, Mich., Fire Fighters (IAFF) members refusing to let the heat stand in the way of their annual fundraising drive for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and here to see how several unions in McKeesport, Pa., are supporting local Boys and Girls Clubs.

AFL-CIO Community Services Director Will Fischer reports on the recent Walk for Burn Awareness in Boston.

More than 350 firefighters, burn survivors and supporters came together on Sunday for the second annual New England Walk for Burn Awareness.

AFL-CIO Community Services Director Will Fischer reports on the flood relief efforts unions are mounting in Montana.

Montana has been hit hard by a series of recent severe storms coupled with runoff from mountain snow melt. The combination has caused serious flooding across the state. Forty-eight of the state’s 56 counties have declared flood emergencies and federal disaster declarations have been issued for 31 counties, plus four American Indian reservations.

Firefighters are everyday heroes, protecting and serving the public. But a group of Fire Fighters (IAFF) members in Worcester, Mass., have found a way to be heroes in their spare time by building ramps for people who need one.

The Fire Fighters (IAFF) reached a tentative agreement with the city of Houston, and more news from the “Bargaining Digest Weekly.” The AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Department delivers daily, bargaining-related news and research resources to more than 1,400 subscribers. Union leaders can register for this service through our website, Bargaining@Work.

One of the most bizarre and harebrained schemes offered as a way to fight cities’ and towns’ budget problems is a Michigan proposal to give fire fighters and paramedics guns and police officers hoses and combining their distinctly different duties into one job—an all-purpose “Public Safety Officer” (PSO).

Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) assault on fire fighters and other public employees—with the support of the Florida Chamber of Commerce—isn’t going over well with voters.

Thousands of laborers, teachers, firefighters and police officers rallied and protested outside and inside the state Capitol today as Ohio Gov. John Kasich delivered his State of the State address.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is trying to take away the freedom of nurses, teachers and other workers across the state to bargain for middle-class jobs and living standards.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) and Republican legislators launched their biggest assault yet against Buckeye State public employees with a hearing yesterday on a bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for all state workers, including faculty and staff at Ohio state colleges and universities.