About AFSCME Local 127:

Established in 1938, AFSCME LOCAL 127 enjoys a long and proud history of representing the workers of the Cities of San Diego and of Coronado.

Our mission is to faithfully represent employees in all matters relating to their health, safety, wages, hours, benefits, and working conditions; and to foster a favorable public attitude toward public employees.

We represent about 2,000 City of San Diego employees in the maintenance, labor, skilled trades, and equipment operator units. We collect the trash and recycling; maintain fire engines, police cars and all city vehicles; fix the streets and streetlights; maintain public parks and beaches; deliver safe drinking water; maintain and operate the water and wastewater systems and the Miramar Landfill; and keep city facilities in good repair.

In the City of Coronado 50 employees in the Public Services and Golf Course divisions maintain the streets, parks, trees, facilities, vehicle fleet, storm water system, beaches and golf course.

About AFSCME International:

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is the country‘s largest public employees‘ union. AFSCME is the largest affiliate of the national AFL-CIO, with more than 1.4 million active members and an overall representation of more than 1.8 million public employees in 46 states, the District of Columbia, and the Republic of Panama.

AFSCME members are workers just like you, employed by cities, states, counties, hospitals, the federal government and non-profit agencies, publicly supported university staff members, and other private employers across the United States. AFSCME‘s working men and women are employed in virtually every field of governmental occupation.

AFSCME began as a series of separate local unions organized by Wisconsin state employees in the early 1930‘s. By 1935, there were 30 locals and they had become an independent part of the American Federation of Government Employees Union. Within a year, AFSCME was officially charted as an independent union by the AFL.

By the time of the AFL-CIO merger in 1955, AFSCME had 100,000 members, and the following year, the Union added the 30,000-member Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee out of the old CIO. With the affiliation of the 260,000-member New York Civil Service Employees Association in 1978, AFSCME‘s national membership swelled to over 1,000,000 hard working men and women.
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THE MEMBERS RUN THE UNION!

A truly democratic union, AFSCME is run by its members. Every member has a vote in the election of local union officers and board members. Each local has its own constitution and members vote at meetings to determine policy, activities, and local dues structure. Members also vote on contract approval or rejection. These rights are guaranteed by the International Union Constitution and the Bill of Rights for Members.