AFGE is calling for the removal of the warden at USP Thomson in northwest Illinois over his failure to address the rampant sexual assault and misconduct of employees by inmates at the high-security prison.
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We won a historic pay raise to bring TSO pay in line with the general schedule that most federal workers receive and expanded workplace rights under Title 5.
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Just before the holiday break, Congress passed and President Biden signed into law a $1.7 trillion omnibus package that funds the federal government for the entire 2023 fiscal year.
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More and more federal and D.C. government workers were joining AFGE in 2022.
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An independent arbitrator has found a Special Investigative Agent (SIA) supervisor guilty of abusing his authority at the Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Center Yazoo City in Mississippi.
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On Monday, Jan. 9, AFGE’s General Counsel’s Office argued to the U.S. Supreme Court that the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) has the power to remedy unfair labor practices committed by the Ohio National Guard against dual-status, civilian technicians represented by AFGE.
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2022 has been nothing short of a great year for AFGE members!
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AFGE is celebrating the House of Representatives bi-partisan passage of the VA Employee Fairness Act of 2021.
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AFGE and the National Archives and Records Administration have recently reached a telework agreement that seeks to make the agency more efficient and worker friendly.
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Correctional officers on Dec. 12 held a picket outside the Bureau of Prisons Western Regional Office in Stockton, Calif., protesting the BOP for repeatedly promoting Deputy Western Regional Director Thomas Ray Hinkle despite a long history of harassing staff and abusing inmates.
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Each year the Women’s and Fair Practices Departments award the Augusta Y. Thomas Civil Rights Award to four dedicated trade unionists.
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AFGE congratulates U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock for winning Georgia’s runoff election on Dec. 6 and making history as the first Black person from the state ever elected to a full six-year term in the Senate.
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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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The presumption of workplace illness is ending in January for Covid survivors and people who are disabled by Covid. AFGE is working to extend the benefit in the 2023 omnibus full-year government funding bill as we still have incidences of workplace exposure and survivors who have long-term effects.
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Last month saw 3,730 federal and D.C. government employees joining AFGE, eager to be a part of our movement for better pay, increased benefits, retirement security, and voice on the job.
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