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AFSCME Lobby Day: Recap and Take Action!

To mark Nevada State Employee Appreciation Week, AFSCME Local 4041 members took to the state legislative building this week to lobby for improvements to the lives and working conditions for ALL Nevada state employees.

We Are Nevada State Employees: Rosina Barrientos

As a development specialist 3, Rosina works with Nevada families to connect them with resources to support the care and growth of their children with special needs. Her current caseload serves families of medically fragile children, including children with diagnosis of autism and down syndrome.

We Are Nevada State Employees: Patricia Wright

An immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago, Patricia has been a state employee for 25 years, and doesn’t see herself stopping any time soon. As a mental health tech at Rawson Neal Psychiatric Hospital, she helps stabilize people suffering from a mental health crisis and helps them learn to live with their conditions.

AFSCME Local 4041 partners with Colonial Life to bring members additional benefits

Together as AFSCME Local 4041, we have a stronger voice on the job to improve our lives, working conditions, and the services we provide to our communities. As a union, we also have access to exclusive voluntary benefits to help us protect our families, finances and future. This year, AFSCME is helping you protect your way of life with the opportunity to purchase the voluntary benefits from Colonial Life.

West Wendover workers keep city services going

Like their counterparts in larger cities, AFSCME members for rural governments have stepped up to serve their communities during this COVID-19 crisis. In smaller, rural communities across Nevada, these workers are essential to all aspects of city services. Local 4041 members in the Public Works Department for the City of West Wendover, Nevada, continue working to ensure city services run smoothly during this emergency.

Administrative Professionals Continue to Keep Our State Running

Administrative assistants are key players in any office, setting the tone of any workplace and keeping services running smoothly. Like many other AFSCME members across Nevada, Deb Hinds, an Administrative Assistant at the medical clinic at the Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services campus (NNAMHS), has had to adjust to a new way of continuing to provide vital services to our community during the coronavirus crisis.

Local 4041 Statement on Re-Opening State Offices

AFSCME Local 4041 President Harry Schiffman released the following statement on the state’s plans to re-open Nevada’s economy, including state offices:

Fund the Front Lines!

As many of us continue to ‘stay home for Nevada’ to slow the spread of the coronavirus, thousands of Nevada public service workers continue to head into work to provide services that are vital to the health, safety and wellbeing of our communities. We are doing our part to keep our commitment of quality service to the communities we serve. But our state needs help from Washington DC. Click here to demand that Congress fund the front lines.

Update for State Employees at Southern Nevada Veterans Home

Working with AFSCME members who brought safety issues at the workplace due to COVID-19 to the attention of our union rep Jeanine Lake, Jeanine reached out to the Department of Veteran Affairs to ensure the agency is prioritizing worker safety. When workers speak up and when we all work together, we can make changes to improve our working conditions and lives! (Photo of AFSCME members talking to workers at Southern Nevada Veterans Home from September 2019)

AFSCME members helping Nevadans with Medicaid navigate services

To slow the curve of COVID-19, state offices across Nevada have closed to the public and services put on continent workplans.

AFSCME members continue to help Nevadans with their job search

“Even with a smaller staff and the challenge of doing our work remotely, we are still here to help Nevadans with their job search,” said Kevin.