The White House has directed agencies to get injured workers back to work faster without doing enough work to reduce workplace injuries and illnesses.
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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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We may have won our executive order lawsuit, but the fight isn't over. The administration is appealing the judge's decision, and is actively working to put the union-busting, democracy-busting executive orders back in place.
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In what has become an alarming, growing trend, members of the administration are attempting to bust unions through bad faith negotiations – with Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers becoming the latest targets.
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In a series of letters sent to the administration and congressional leadership, nearly 200 lawmakers joined to fight the proposed pay freeze for federal employees next year.
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As a direct result of our union’s leadership in the lawsuit against three union-busting, democracy-busting executive orders, and the resulting injunction we won in court, the Office of Personnel Management has ordered agencies to comply with the judge’s ruling and restore employees’ legal right to representation.
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Taxpayers like us are on the hook for the cost of lawsuits, as a result of the administration’s decision to eliminate the Department of Veterans Affairs’ process allowing health care professionals and unions to correct management’s errors and resolve issues at lower levels.
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A bipartisan group of current and former lawmakers have filed an amicus brief in support of lawsuits filed by AFGE and other federal unions challenging President Trump’s anti-worker executive orders.
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In a stunning show of support for federal employees and their access to rights in the workplace, 21 House Republicans and 23 Democrats delivered their letters to President Trump, asking him to rescind his recent executive orders as they are undermining the laws.
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On May 25, President Trump signed three executive orders that chip away at due process and collective bargaining rights for federal employees. On May 30, 2018, AFGE sued the Trump administration in response to the third executive order, which aims to deny workers their legal right to representation at the worksite.
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The three executive orders seek to undermine three things that serve as a protection for the merit systems and against the politicization of the civil service: removal procedure and merit principles, official time, and collective bargaining. After seeing the misinformation campaigns against EPA and VA workers, it's clear that the administration is trying to undermine our democracy and usher in the spoils system.
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AFGE Policy Director Jacque Simon detailed to members of Congress how the administration’s “President’s Management Agenda” would sabotage the professional civil service and agency missions.
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Congress recently passed and the President signed into law a $1.3 trillion spending bill that funds the government through September 2018. But the administration is now taking steps to slash the increases they disagree with.
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After months of short-term continuing resolutions and two government shutdowns that disrupted the livelihoods of millions of federal workers and the programs they serve, federal employees can breathe a sigh of relief.
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To come up with billions of dollars to pay for the recent massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, the Trump administration drew up a plan to bleed federal workers dry in the 2019 budget proposal released Feb. 12.
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