4.2 million federal employees' personal data was compromised because of a Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach. An additional 21.5 million people have had their personal data stolen because of intrusions into OPM’s computer systems.
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In response to the murder of five servicemen in Chattanooga, TN, the American Federation of Government Employees, representing 670,000 federal and D.C. government employees across the U.S. and abroad, issued a statement sharing our condolences to their families.
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AFGE’s Council of Prison Locals has been working for years to reform harsh sentencing laws like mandatory minimums and curb the resulting rampant overcrowding of prisons, which strains budgets and endangers both officers and inmates. On July 16, we gained a powerful ally in the fight when President Obama called for ending mandatory minimum sentencing for non-violent drug offenders during a tour of FCI El Reno in Oklahoma.
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AFGE has just won a union election for Registered Nurses at Ft. Lee, Virginia. The unit comprises about 35 Army civilian nurses, who will be represented by Local 1178 led by President Willie Slater.
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Thanks to AFGE’s excellent legal representation, the Department of Veterans Affairs has agreed to place hundreds of VA Central Office (VACO) employees into the AFGE bargaining unit!
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It’s been three years since AFGE signed the historic first-ever labor-management contract with TSA. Since then, AFGE members at TSA have stood together to ensure the safety of their TSA colleagues while delivering upon the mission to protect the flying public.
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The Office of Personnel Management has set up a double standard for those whose personal data was stolen from OPM’s computer systems.
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The House Veterans Affairs Committee has only one job: make sure our country’s veterans are taken care of. But on Wednesday it did the opposite. The panel voted to allow retaliation and discrimination against the very people who take care of our veterans. That means VA employees can no longer bring up issues that hurt veterans such as understaffing and mismanagement without the fear of being fired.
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No one in America should go to bed hungry. And so AFGE volunteers braved the summer heat to help distribute food to hundreds of people at a capital area food bank this week.
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AFGE activists from the national office and Local 1738 participated in a Moral Monday march in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to protest the state’s anti-democracy voting law.
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If H.R. 1994 and S. 1082 are passed, every VA worker, including over 100,000 veterans, will be at-will employees without meaningful rights to appeal terminations and other adverse actions resulting from retaliation, discrimination, or anti-veteran hostility.
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AFGE lauds legislation introduced by Rep. Mark Takano of California that finally addresses accountability at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in substantive and comprehensive ways. H.R. 2999, the Fair VA Accountability Act, takes meaningful steps to reduce mismanagement, protect whistleblowers from management retaliation, and hold individuals accountable without trampling on workplace and Constitutional rights.
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Thanks to AFGE Local 3354, many GS Program Technicians (PTs) employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) will soon eligible to apply for a Key Program Technician position within the Agency affording them upgrade potential from a GS-7 to GS-8. The upcoming Key PT advertisements for GS technicians partly stemmed from meetings between the local and USDA leaders in Washington, D.C. last year.
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The government is supposed to help create jobs and thriving communities, but what the Army is planning to do is the exact opposite. The Army is telling 40,000 troops and 17,000 civilian employees that “I don’t want you for the U.S. Army.” The cuts are planned for 2016 and 2017.
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Checks are being mailed out to 4,400 State Department employees who won a $39.9 million settlement over an overtime grievance filed by AFGE Local 1534.
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