Wondering If Your Member of Congress Is Plotting to Take Away Your Job?
June 12, 2015
Sometimes it’s hard to tell, but this group makes it easier to at least identify those who are publicly and aggressively trying to sabotage you.
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Sometimes it’s hard to tell, but this group makes it easier to at least identify those who are publicly and aggressively trying to sabotage you.
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AFGE is proud to be a Rainbow Sponsor of the 40th Celebration of Pride in the Nation’s Capital this weekend!
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After joining the federal workforce in 1986 to use her talents at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Carolyn Federoff became involved in her local AFGE union.
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A recent independent assessment of management challenges facing the Environmental Protection Agency highlights several issues that are especially important to the AFGE Council 238, which represents about 8,500 EPA employees.
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AFGE is saddened to report that we lost our long-time member and dedicated Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) employee Krissie Davis on Monday when she was killed in an indirect fire attack while working on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.
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AFGE this week won a union election to represent wage grade and professional employees at theLos Angeles/Long Beach Coast Guard command at Terminal Island (San Pedro), California. The employees voted 10-2 to be represented by AFGE.
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AFGE has updated a new guide to help you spot those problem contracts and more.
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AFGE has issued the following statement regarding news reports on the results of a covert test by DHS investigators.
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SeaTac, Seattle, San Francisco, and most recently Los Angeles have adopted a $15 an hour minimum wage. As the Fight for $15 campaign is catching on, few people know that at least 34,000 federal workers, not including non-appropriated fund (NAF) employees, make less than $15 an hour.
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The Office of Personnel Management, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office of Special Counsel, and the Merit Systems Protection Board have just put out new guidance for agencies and federal employees in the LGBT community.
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Francis Nichols III is the life of the party. It’s impossible not to notice him.
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Undeterred by a June shower, labor activists from across the country on Tuesday gathered at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. before marching to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), demanding to see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a secret trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 other countries.
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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) informed AFGE Thursday evening that the personal information of all 2.1 million current federal employees and an additional 2 million federal retirees and former federal employees may have been compromised during a Chinese cyberattack.
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As the House is debating the 2016 Defense Authorization bill, AFGE is urging senators to support a measure that would strike a provision that would privatize commissaries and cut a crucial earned benefit that has helped military families make ends meet.
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Francis Nichols III is the life of the party. It’s impossible not to notice him.
On a recent bus ride from Hilton Chicago to a local McDonalds where AFL-CIO Next Up Young Worker Summit participants would gather to protest its poverty wages, Francis took to the front of the bus and led fun chants that made a long ride exciting and memorable.
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