Members of AFGE, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), other unions, and allies are taking to the streets June 25 to protest the Trump administration’s threat to furlough or lay off up to 150 Office of Personnel Management (OPM) employees if Congress won’t let it dismantle OPM.
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A new report reveals how the Trump administration is pushing the outsourcing of federal jobs to unaccountable private temp agencies, raising new concerns about accountability and quality of work especially in military and veterans’ privatized health care.
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AFGE blasted the new acting director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for pressuring asylum officers to misapply immigration laws and politicizing the process.
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An AFGE local representing correctional officers at Federal Correctional Institution Mendota in California hosted a congressional tour of the facility June 17 to highlight the prison’s dangerous conditions after their repeated efforts to get Bureau of Prisons (BOP) management to address the issues fell on deaf ears.
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