As the shutdown entered Day 6 on Oct. 6, a group of federal employees, union members, and community allies gathered at El Presidio Park in Tucson, Ariz., to demand an immediate end to the ongoing lockout.
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Across the country, AFGE members are calling on Congress to end the federal government shutdown that has sparked chaos and concern over the fate of federal jobs and Americans’ access to essential programs and services.
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AFGE members from coast to coast have been speaking out to the media about the damage being inflicted on federal workers and the public they serve due to the government shutdown that began Oct. 1.
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On Saturday Oct. 18, millions of Americans frustrated with the Trump administration’s authoritarian policies and actions will take to the streets in a mass protest intended to replicate the successful No Kings protest this summer.
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With government funding set to expire at midnight Sept. 30, AFGE President Everett Kelley is urging lawmakers to come to the table and reach a deal to avert a damaging shutdown.
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More than 30,000 federal correctional officers and support staff are the latest casualties of the Trump administration’s unrelenting efforts to strip federal workers of their collective bargaining rights.
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In another case of the Trump administration retaliating against federal employees for simply doing their jobs, a team of economists and researchers at the Economic Research Service were put on administrative leave Sept. 22 after the administration cancelled publication of an annual report that measures hunger and food insecurity within the United States.
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With the government’s new fiscal year starting Oct. 1, union leaders from AFGE Locals 2284 and 1858 visited Capitol Hill the week of Sept. 15 to urge lawmakers to protect NASA’s funding and workforce from deep White House-proposed budget cuts.
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Read a recent op-ed from AFGE Local 2809 President Barri Sue Bryant.
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With current federal funding set to expire on September 30, the risk of a government shutdown is growing.
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Momentum is growing in the fight to overturn President Trump’s illegal and destructive directives stripping collective bargaining rights from most federal employees.
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Leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had said employees with disabilities would no longer be approved for telework or remote work as a reasonable accommodation – a stunning violation of workers’ civil rights and the Trump administration’s own policies.
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The Trump administration is attempting to prevent working journalists and other media professionals at the U.S. Agency for Global Media and its Voice of America from exercising their First Amendment rights.
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On behalf of AFGE’s Women’s and Fair Practices Departments, AFGE National Vice President Kendrick Roberson congratulates the newly elected leaders of constituency groups AFGE HISCO and AFGE PRIDE.
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Six months after we challenged the Trump administration’s mass firing of 25,000 federal employees while on their probationary periods, a federal judge has ruled that the terminations were illegal.
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