With government funding set to expire at midnight Sept. 30, AFGE President Everett Kelley is urging lawmakers to come to the table and reach a deal to avert a damaging shutdown.
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More than 30,000 federal correctional officers and support staff are the latest casualties of the Trump administration’s unrelenting efforts to strip federal workers of their collective bargaining rights.
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In another case of the Trump administration retaliating against federal employees for simply doing their jobs, a team of economists and researchers at the Economic Research Service were put on administrative leave Sept. 22 after the administration cancelled publication of an annual report that measures hunger and food insecurity within the United States.
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With the government’s new fiscal year starting Oct. 1, union leaders from AFGE Locals 2284 and 1858 visited Capitol Hill the week of Sept. 15 to urge lawmakers to protect NASA’s funding and workforce from deep White House-proposed budget cuts.
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Read a recent op-ed from AFGE Local 2809 President Barri Sue Bryant.
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