Federal employees working for the U.S. Army at two locations in Germany have voted to join AFGE, part of a continuing effort to expand AFGE’s representation of federal employees working in Europe.
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AFGE’s election win in Germany last month not only made headlines but also attracted interest in the union from American government workers stationed overseas.
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A group of lawmakers in Illinois and Iowa is pressing the Department of Labor to make sure there are enough medical providers who take workers’ compensation cases so federal workers don’t have to travel far for care or go without the treatments they need for on-the-job injuries.
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The Army at Fort Eisenhower, previously Ft. Gordon, agreed to reinstate an employee to her position and awarded her compensatory damages and back pay following a series of discrimination and wrongful termination complaints.
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Registration is now underway for the AFGE Defense Conference’s annual training, which will be held the first week of September at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas.
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AFGE is working to revive union representation at a long-established local at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Naples in Italy after members and potential members have expressed renewed interest in the union.
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The Department of Defense civilian workforce has lower percentages of women and minorities than the rest of the federal government, according to 10 years of data analyzed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
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The Department of Defense recently began notifying more than 23,000 employees that they have been receiving either an overpayment or underpayment of their salary due to calculation errors in their pension contributions.
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Management and employees at Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois have not reached an agreement on their new contract, but management is planning to impose its own terms on the workers starting April 23. Employees, which negotiated in good faith with management for over a year only to be ignored. are not having any of it.
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AFGE is in the process of launching a new local to cover more than 10,000 federal employees working for U.S. agencies in Europe who currently lack a collective voice at work.
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The Pentagon should ramp up its own production of military equipment by leveraging the civilian workforce’s expertise as the war in Ukraine is straining the U.S.’s military supply.
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Besides having no job security, the teachers are underpaid due to the agency’s 50 individual faculty pay steps and avoidance of any periodic pay-step increases.
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AFGE thanks Senate and House negotiators for including many of our union’s top priorities affecting employees in the Department of Defense and other federal agencies in the compromise version of the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act that passed the House on Dec. 8.
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AFGE has sent a letter to all U.S. senators urging them to support or oppose various amendments to the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act that will be considered by the Senate next month.
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The House of Representatives July 14 passed its version of the fiscal 2023 NDAA that includes many AFGE priorities seeking better pay, benefits, and working conditions for government workers.
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