Local 2187 invites you to a night of festive delight at our 2023 Holiday Party! The Local will be providing OPEN BAR, FOOD, MUSIC, and FUN. Please join your union family for a night of festive celebration!

We have launched an electronic AFSCME 2187 City Contract Survey, which will help us identify the issues that members want placed in 2024 contract proposals with the City of Philadelphia. I am requesting your assistance in drafting the Union's contract proposals, as this union is each and every one of us, together!

We know that public service jobs are something to be proud of. AND they’re often good #union jobs that provide workers with good benefits, safer working conditions, job stability and retirement security. Check out job opportunities on 8/21!

DC47 #Union member Ari Gutierrez-Sanchez talks to NBC10 about programs that she runs at Phila. Museum of Art to bring art to Philly kids, & how unionizing the museum allowed a passion for art to turn into a career!

Local 2187 members do you have a college student looking for an internship this Summer break?

Send an e-mail below with their information:

• Name
• College attending
• Grade (Year)
• Major
• Interest in working for the City of Philadelphia

So very proud of our @afscme union family working at the @freelibrary. Supporting the Philly community is what we do. ❤

Please see the latest AFSCME 2187 #union update from David Wilson, Local 2187 President. See update video text at the link.

A growing number of young people are joining and forming labor unions. Some call them “Generation U.” The New York Times dubbed the phenomenon the “Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class..."

"Residents and fellows of Penn made history as the first house staff in PA to unionize, but that is just the beginning. Penn has a long history of resisting unionization by its employees, but it's a new era..." -CIRSEIU

"The new contracts bring to a close nearly a year of tense negotiations, which included a weeklong strike at the 67,000-student public flagship university — the first in the unions’ history..."

See the latest Union news and updates from AFSCME Local 2187.

Check out DC47's picks for endorsement in the PA Municipal Primary Election on May 16, 2023.

1968. Memphis, Tennessee. The heart of the racially segregated South. Black sanitation workers faced poverty wages and degrading, dangerous conditions on the job. The city refused to act. But after two sanitation workers were crushed...

Did you know that of Philadelphia's 217 public schools, fewer than 5 have a working library with a librarian? Our city's children deserve better. we need your help restoring libraries. Please sign!