DEFCON is scheduled to meet with majority and minority staff from the Senate Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee.
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Proposals to cut federal employee compensation, jobs hurts all Americans
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The annual Evening with Labor awards dinner hosted by the Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO brought together activists from around the area to celebrate community activism and reflect on the issues facing the labor movement.
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The fiscal 2016 House budget plan issued today by Rep. Tom Price attacks millions of working-class Americans by proposing major cuts to their compensation and jobs, American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr. said.
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Our government and its workforce are there to create safe, thriving communities that benefit everyone. Protecting public safety, protecting food safety, protecting the environment, building mass transportation, providing education, and administering the justice system are some of the necessary functions that can only be adequately provided by a democratically elected government acting in the public interest...
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You guessed it. AFGE was honored to be the only union invited to join a group of civil right leaders and activists led by President Barack Obama to walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge last weekend to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the civil rights march.
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The Defense Department is planning to cut pay and pensions of commissary workers, as recommended by the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission.
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The Council of Prison Locals is encouraging every BOP local to host at least one partnership meeting with management every quarter to foster a good working relationship.
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At a meeting of the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections this week, AFGE Council of Prison Locals (CPL) President Eric Young testified passionately on behalf of the men and women working in our federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
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Young workers are leading some of the country’s most pressing fights for racial justice, gender equity, and LGBTQ rights.
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Our government and its workforce are there to create safe, thriving communities that benefit everyone.
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March is recognized as Women’s History Month and AFGE’s Women’s and Fair Practices Departments will again take this opportunity to inform you of a few women - some of them you may know and others you may not - who have done great things and made history.
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President Barack Obama is visiting the Phoenix VA hospital this Friday, and he has asked to meet with AFGE Local 2382 President Louis Curry and staff when he’s there.
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AFGE National President J. David Cox, Sr., released the following statement regarding the loss of longtime AFGE activist Linda Mason
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“When you are young, gifted, and black, your soul’s intact. Young, gifted, and black, oh how long I tell the truth. There are times when I look back, and I am haunted by my youth."
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