Under the anti-worker Trump administration, the FLRA’s mission has been skewed to reflect the administration’s political agenda of decimating the federal workforce and purging your union.
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The Trump administration is sending out removal letters to 250 scientists and researchers at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) who have declined short-notice relocation from Washington, D.C. to a not-yet-to-be determined area in the Kansas City region.
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In light of the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia did not have jurisdiction to rule on the matter of the legal challenge by AFGE and other federal unions to President Trump’s May 2018 union-busting executive orders, AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. released a statement.
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AFGE supports a paid family leave measure that has been added to the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is projected to experience catastrophic employee attrition as a result of the short-notice move of 90% of all NIFA employees out of the National Capital Region.
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Our very own National Secretary-Treasurer Everett Kelley has been awarded the Roving Ambassador for Peace Prize from the World Peace Prize Awarding Council.
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The House on July 12 passed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act with several provisions that affect not only Defense employees but all federal employees governmentwide.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit largely sided with our union when it ruled that federal employees have standing to sue the government over its failure to protect employees’ personal data which led to one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history.
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AFGE filed an unfair labor practice charge against the National Park Service (NPS) for declaring they would impose anti-worker management directives on NPS employees nationwide.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service (ERS) could expect most of its 200 employees to decline relocation, raising concerns about brain drain and the agency’s ability to fulfill its mission and serve the American people
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A federal arbitrator has ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to remove an online listing of major disciplinary actions taken against VA employees.
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Thanks to the thousands of calls AFGE members made to Congress, the House of Representatives on June 26 approved a 3.1% raise for federal employees next year, rejecting President Trump’s proposed pay freeze.
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AFGE members came together to demand a safe workplace, and their efforts paid off. Employees were informed that the General Services Administration (GSA) will cease operating at the contaminated Goodfellow Complex in St. Louis, Mo., and employees will be moved to a new location.
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Our union on June 25 filed an unfair labor practice charge against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for declaring they would impose new anti-worker management directives on nearly 9,000 EPA employees.
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Office of Personnel Management (OPM) employees called out their acting director for being evasive and flip-flopping on the administration’s plan to dismantle OPM and merge it with the General Services Administration (GSA).
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