According to data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, non-federal workers in Des Moines earned 10 percentage points more than federal employees doing similar jobs over a three-year period.
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The administration is pushing its false narrative that some feds are overpaid and others are underpaid so that it can shift payroll from the bottom to the top.
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In a new proposed rule, the NLRB is siding with corporate interests―pitting business owners against workers.
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Who are these unsung heroes behind Thanksgiving? It’s the men and women who work at many government agencies.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Nov. 8 it is removing 430 union volunteers from their union representation duties, denying workplace rights to more than 100,000 health care workers at the VA.
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On Nov. 6, a large number of pro-union candidates won their elections and re-elections, shifting the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the next Congress.
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Sixteen senators are asking the Trump administration why it’s not complying with a court order that invalidated major provisions of the White House’s executive orders targeting federal employees and their unions.
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Despite a federal judge’s ruling in August that largely invalidated President Trump’s three illegal anti-worker executive orders, the EEOC notified our union that it is on a fast track to implement several portions of the orders before the end of the year.
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AFGE’s communications team has won prestigious labor media awards for several years in a row, and this year is no different.
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So many of our veterans came home and continued serving. And for that, we thank them.
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As lawmakers are finishing up appropriations bills funding various government programs in 2019, a new poll shows what the American people want members of Congress to do: Roll back Republicans’ tax cuts for the rich and big corporations.
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Because of the nature of their work, federal employees are more likely to suffer an injury on the job than those in the private sector.
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A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied the Trump administration’s request for an expedited response to its appeal of a U.S. District Court ruling striking down the bulk of three illegal anti-worker executive orders.
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Join our union in wearing pink Tuesday, Oct. 30 in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
You can also join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram with the hashtags
#ThinkPink and #BreastCancerAwareness
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A petition started by our Local 17 members forced a senior official at the Department of Veterans Affairs to remove a portrait of a notorious Confederate general, KKK founder, and slave trader from his federal office in Washington, D.C.
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