Just a reminder to all that the AFSCME Council 62 Scholarship is just around the corner. I have added the application to our download section and you can find a copy of it here.

It's easy to send us your email address, just drop us a quick message here.

Friends,

As we look to solidify our place in Louisville, it's becoming more and more important that we can contact each of our members efficiently. We've tried our best to keep email from the Local off of the city's computer network, but we really need your help!

Please sign up for an account with us, or at least get your email address to us so that we can get notices out to you as quickly as possible. If you have any questions, please contact your steward or E-Board representative.

Look! E-Mail has been integrated into our website!

Check it out folks! After some hops, skips and jumps, I have been able to integrate email into your AFSCME Local 2629 website experience. So I present the webmail experience to you with some understandings and info about how you can begin to use it.

First, the login to the E-Mail site is located at the top of the page just under the logo. Click on that and then enter your full email address (i.e. john.doe@afscme2629.com) into window along with your password and you're in. It may take a few seconds to load depending on traffic.

NOTE: You only have an AFSCME email account if you are a steward, E-Board representative or table officer. Your hotmail, yahoo, gmail and Metro email accounts will not work from here.

Now, I really consider this feature of the website to be in [BETA] as it has just been set up for a few hours, and I think there is still work to do. THERE WILL BE ERRORS, and you can ignore them. But the process of reading and sending email should work. The errors that I have seen so far do not impact working with the system in any way. In the near future, I plan to work on the formatting and theming of each aspect of the site so that I can integrate them as tightly as possible. I know that this will be an important part of communications between members.

BUT I DON'T HAVE AN AFSCME E-MAIL ACCOUNT: That's ok. Did you know that you can email anyone in our system? Since the beginning, we have had private messaging. All you need to do is go to USER MENU > MESSAGE CENTER in the navigation menu and you can email anyone in the system. What actually happens is our system sends an email to the recipients private (home) email account and tells them they have a message. This allows us to email each other but keeps our home addresses private. Giving out your email address is up to you, not us. But we can still facilitate your correspondence, even if you had that person's mail address and you misplaced it. UPDATE: If you do not have an AFSCME Local 2629 E-Mail account, you probably won't see the link to the email page at the top of the screen.

IF YOU NEED TO CONTACT A STEWARD: We have provided several ways to do that. Our email addresses are always going to be "firstname.lastname@afscme2629.com" So, if your stewards name is John Smith, then his email will be "john.smith@afscme2629.com" 

You can also submit a ticket to the GTS to report an issue with the website, email system or a grievance. Those submissions are routed to the correct people and we will be sure to take care of them as quickly as possible.

Check after the jump for a quick FAQ: