September/October 2023 Government Standard: AFGE members have a lot to celebrate as we head into fall – and you can read all about it here!
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AFGE is urging locals to monitor temperatures in their facilities after receiving several complaints from members that their agencies have refused to provide air-conditioning or fans during the summer months where several states saw record-high temperatures.
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At the VA Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, nurses are leaving in droves to go work for other VA facilities or private hospitals in the area that provide better pay
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The fifth episode of AFGE’s new series, The Activist, highlighting our union members who have stepped up to help make a difference in the lives of their colleagues and our government.
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AFGE offers all kinds of training both online and in person at the union’s conferences such as the recent P.O.R.T. Leadership Academy.
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AFGE recently won reinstatement and two and a half years of back pay for a nursing assistant at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Long Beach Medical Center in California after an arbitrator ruled that she had been wrongly terminated.
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After the August recess, Congress will be returning in September with a full plate to pass appropriations bills or more likely a short-term funding bill known as continuing resolution (CR) to avoid a government shutdown ahead of the Sept. 30 fiscal-year deadline.
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The fourth episode of AFGE’s new series, The Activist, highlighting our union members who have stepped up to help make a difference in the lives of their colleagues and our government.
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Labor day is the day to honor and remember working people who’ve fought for workers’ rights in the workplace.
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AFGE’s Council of Prison Locals has a new chief in charge – although she’s hardly new to the nearly 30,000 correctional officers and staff represented by the union.
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In Ohio's August special election voters resoundingly defeated Issue 1 aimed at making it more difficult for citizens to amend the state’s constitution.
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Situated on the banks of the Potomac River, more than 450 AFGE leaders and activists gathered at the Gaylord National Harbor for AFGE’s 4th Annual Sister’s Keeper Summit and the Human Rights Training Conference.
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The third episode of AFGE’s new series, The Activist, highlighting our union members who have stepped up to help make a difference in the lives of their colleagues and our government.
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After six years of negotiations, AFGE’s National VA Council and the Department of Veterans Affairs signed a collective bargaining agreement that defends critical protections for VA workers while modernizing the hiring process.
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AFGE Local 1239 has signed a collective bargaining agreement covering nurses who transferred to the newly created Defense Health Agency (DHA).
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