AFGE Marches Toward 325K Members
May 02, 2024
May/June 2024 Government Standard: AFGE has been smashing organizing goals month after month, and we have no intention of slowing down!
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Eighty-three years ago on Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act as a safeguard "against the hazards and vicissitudes of life."
This historic law created what would become the life line of many Americans and one of the most popular social insurance programs in the country.
Social Security, administered by the Social Security Administration, helps ensure our economic security as we age through payroll taxes paid by us and our employers. The program ensures that after a lifetime of work, we can retire with dignity.
All of us are grateful we have this kind of social insurance program – Social Security singlehandedly keeps 22 million Americans out of poverty. We are well off today because generations before us demanded that our government do something to save us from poverty when we get old.
They would know. They lived through it.
Here’s what happened in America before Social Security came along:
Keep Social Security strong
Considering the widening wealth gap and stagnant wages the past several decades, Social Security is important now more than ever. As an American, it’s our duty to protect this important program for us, our children, and grandchildren.
Our union is proud to represent SSA employees who play a key role in helping American seniors retire with dignity. To help make sure Social Security does what it was intended to do, our union:
Retiring and want to join in our fight?
Your partnership with your union doesn't have to end when you retire. Join AFGE Retirees and fight for what we stand for. Join us today!
May/June 2024 Government Standard: AFGE has been smashing organizing goals month after month, and we have no intention of slowing down!
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AFGE is asking lawmakers to repeal two controversial rules that have caused public servants to lose two-thirds or even the entire amount of their Social Security benefits.
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AFGE is urging the D.C. government not to close the urgent care clinic at the D.C. Superior Courthouse that each year provides hundreds of individuals with mental health care and substance use treatment.
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