It took the House Armed Services Committee all day and all night on Wednesday to go over nearly 300 proposals in its 2016 Defense Authorization bill, but they finally approved it at around 4:30 a.m.
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AFGE congratulates our very own National Vice President for Women and Fair Practices Augusta Thomas on receiving the A. Philip Randolph Legacy Award presented by the A. Philip Randolph Institute, Baltimore Chapter.
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Workers’ Memorial Day falls on April 28, and AFGE salutes federal employees who put their lives on the line every single day and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.
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Dozens of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and employees in San Diego staged a protest this week to bring spotlight to management corruption and cover-ups.
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On Tuesday night, AFGE National President J. David Cox, National Vice President Gerald D. Swanke and AFGE Legislative Director Beth Moten joined 18,000 AFGE members on a TeleTown Hall to discuss the 12 percent pay cut being imposed on government employees in the 2016 federal budget.
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We have just released a new orientation video for our DoD locals to use in their organizing efforts.
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Most Americans often do not think about the danger government workers experience every day. But when workers in the Border Patrol, the Bureau of Prisons, the TSA, the Federal Protective Service (FPS), the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense and many others clock in for work, they do so knowing that they could get hurt or even killed.
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As the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees will soon vote to allow the administration to fast track a bad international trade deal being negotiated behind closed doors, AFGE activists on Monday joined hundreds of activists from other organizations to make it clear that we will not let this happen without a fight.
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Rep. Jeff Miller of Florida, chair of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, on Thursday introduced a very bad bill.
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Years ago the George W. Bush administration pushed to outsource the mandatory inspection of grain exported from the U.S. They did a pilot project and found neither savings nor efficiencies in privatizing the function.
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An AFGE-backed bill was introduced this week to extend law enforcement retirement coverage to Federal Protective Service officers and make other improvements to the security at federal facilities.
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A separate bill by Rep. Carson, HR 1850, would make a number of other reforms to FPS to security at federal buildings.
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Watching the discussion around the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) gives President Cox a nasty sense of déjà vu.
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During each of AFGE's National Conventions, the Women's and Fair Practices Departments seek to recognize those who have exceeded the expectation of their role as a local coordinator and are fully dedicated to our department's mission of advocating for and educating our members in the areas of civil, human, women's and workers' rights.
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AFGE National Secretary Treasurer Eugene Hudson Jr. on Wednesday spoke at the inaugural Black Men & Boys Day on Capitol Hill advocacy training aimed at encouraging black men and boys to engage in legislative advocacy on issues that impact their communities.
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