The AFL-CIO and FPD, NUHHCE, AFSCME
What is the AFL-CIO and why is it important to the lives of FPD members? As an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, the FPD, NUHHCE, and AFSCME join with 76 other unions to fight together for the rights of working people throughout the United States. Our voices become part of a movement that is 13 million members strong.
Chartered by the AFL in 1936, AFSCME’s ties to the AFL, and later, to the United AFL-CIO in 1955 are far from footnotes to history. Two years ago FPD, NUHHCE, and AFSCME campaigned successfully for the election of John Sweeney as President,
Richard Trumka as Secretary-Treasurer, and the former AFSCME International Vice President Linda Chavez Thompson as Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO. In addition, AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee and the Secretary-Treasurer, William Lucy, are members of the 54 member AFL-CIO Executive Council.
Responding to welfare reform, preserving Social Security and protecting Medicare are among the challenges confronting the AFL-CIO today.
When we hear about the success of the new AFL-CIO, FPD,
NUHHCE, and AFSCME, members can take pride that we are part of that success.
FEDERATION MEMBER BENEFITS
The Federation of Physicians and Dentists/Alliance of
Healthcare and Professional Employees (FPD/AHPE) is an affiliate of the National
Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees (NUHHCE), American Federation of
State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), and AFL-CIO. We are
specifically organized for the purpose of representing physicians, health care
professionals, and other private and public professionals. The Federation’s
history has shown it to be a successful organization dedicated to providing:
- A strong and effective voice for professionals in the effort to prevent
abuses and correct inequities in the delivery of medical services.
- Effective and meaningful representation
- A strong political voice before legislative and congressional bodies
- An organized means to improve the job security, wages, benefits, and the
decision-making role of our members in the workplace
The FPD works with other organizations, such as the American Medical Association and the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, but the focus of the FPD is more oriented towards empowerment of physicians in a realistic but focused context, related to collective bargaining.