Because of your activism, the Senate has approved a 1.9% pay raise for federal workers next year. This modest pay adjustment would help prevent federal employees from falling further behind next year and help federal agencies recruit and retain the high-caliber workforce that the public expects and deserves.
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Eighty-three years ago, on Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act as a safeguard "against the hazards and vicissitudes of life." Today, Social Security single-handedly keeps 22 million Americans out of poverty. We are better off today because generations before us demanded that our government do something to save us from poverty as we enter old age.
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Throughout our history, we have been champions of equality and justice in the workplace. Our government’s mission is to make America work for everyone, and 86 years after our founding, AFGE is proud to represent those who make America move forward.
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Thousands of AFGE members, more than 100 union presidents, members of Congress, and union members from unions throughout the country gathered to wear red for feds and stand up to the illegal executive orders targeting federal employees.
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In the first victory against the Trump administration’s efforts to purge your union and your rights in the workplace, our union prevailed in an unfair labor practice investigation against the Department of Education, which unilaterally imposed its own illegal edict on 3,900 federal employees.
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From putting the first man on the moon to ensuring your food is safe to eat, federal employees, like you, make profound differences in our lives every day. Your union is proud to represent these fine men and women, and help them do their jobs better serving the American people. That’s why we’re launching the America’s Workforce campaign – to tell our stories and show the country the important work we do!
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Over the past 27 years, more than $4.3 million have been awarded to students of over 2,900 union families. Start your application today at www.unionplus.org/scholarship.
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On #RedforFeds Day, July 25, our union and members across the country are taking the administration to court and will be in the streets to protest his union-busting, democracy-busting executive orders.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has begun implementing the administration's executive order purging unions and gutting your rights to fight injustice in the workplace.
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Without due process, we cannot have a democratic system. Only in a dictatorship where citizens are not protected by a system of due process and could be wrongfully punished. Unfortunately, some politicians are taking our country in that direction.
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For 60 years, NASA’s mission to further knowledge of our home planet and the search for life on other worlds is a source of pride for us all. From Apollo 13’s journey to the Moon to Pioneer 10’s flight to Jupiter, NASA employees’ expertise, passion, and dedication have helped us reach the stars. For them, the sky is literally not the limit.
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In yet another example of an irresponsible, undemocratic, unprecedented attempt to wipe out labor unions from the United States, the Trump administration has ordered federal agencies across the country to begin implementing the three controversial executive orders to obstruct our work fighting discrimination, retaliation, and injustices in the federal workplace.
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Our union exists to protect the merit systems, ensure justice, equality, and workers’ voice – all important factors for our government to serve and protect the American people. We make sure researchers, scientists, doctors, nurses, and other public servants have the tools and resources they need to do their jobs. But this administration is showing zero leadership in helping them do their jobs better.
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As the administration works to purge our union from the workplace, 132 members of Congress join us in calling for a stop to the union-busting Executive Orders.
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Unions are a cornerstone of our democracy and our middle class. Unions are important more than ever in light of an all-out war on the labor movement, whether it’s right-to-work-for-less laws, Janus, or other Supreme Court rulings that helped advance corporate interests.
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