As the new year arrives and 2022 ends,
Let’s look ahead with thanks to our friends:
Public employee union members who
Industry, business, and people turn to.

Serving with character and devotion,
Assigned to jobs from mountain to ocean.
A day's honest work, come rain or come shine,
So fishers can fish and miners can mine.

Technicians processing food stamp requests
While DMV agents lead CDL tests.
Designers and planners shaping the way
We’ll drive down, fly from, and ferry one day.

Nurses and CNAs, you stand by your post,
Called back to help when we need you the most.
From many home offices, busy, attentive,
Work was performed, solutions inventive.

Through trials and hardships, you've persevered,
Your commitment to work never deterred.
Emails or cell phones or Microsoft Teams,
You answered the call no matter the extremes.

As this year concludes, it’s time to take pause;
Thank you for working through freeze-up and thaws,
You all are heroes, each and every one,
Whose service to others ought to be sung.

Ring in a new day with joy and good cheer;
Raise a glass for a toast that’s warm and sincere:
For all ASEA folks far and near,
Here's to a bright and a hopeful new year!

We are a community, rugged and true,
Together we do what we set our minds to.

In Solidarity,

—All of us at ASEA AFSCME Local 52