2023 was a great year for our union on the organizing front. We grew over 5% during the year, at our fastest rate of growth in some 13 years.
Every single district and council grew in 2023 with the National VA Council and TSA Council reaching their highest levels of membership ever – 130,158 and 22,545 respectively.
Besides the 5% growth, our union ended December with a net increase of 1,051 despite the holidays.
We’re also adding new units of workers who have never been represented by a union, including those in Europe, and employees who went through reorganization and chose to join AFGE.
AFGE Membership and Organization Director Dave Cann said our most significant growth in 2023 was internal – people who were already eligible to join. AFGE still has the best representation in the federal sector, and member benefits have always been attractive. Neither of those have changed in 13 years.
“What has changed last year was that folks were being asked to join not just to have a strong union watching their back and to have the best member benefits of any union, but to have a voice on the job,” he explained. “People are joining AFGE in record numbers because they want workplace power -- a seat at the table when decisions about the workplace are made. That is very exciting.”
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