AFGE Op-ed Defends Due Process for Federal Workers
June 26, 2015
Check out AFGE’s new op-ed in the Hill discussing the importance of due process in the federal government.
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House Panel Approves Bill Allowing VA to Fire Employees at Will
June 26, 2015
The House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on Thursday approved with a minor revision a bill that would allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire all employees, including non-management, at will.
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VA, Workers' Rights
What Is OPM Doing and Planning to Do to Beef up Cybersecurity?
June 26, 2015
OPM this week released a report detailing what has been done and what it plans to do to upgrade its IT systems and prevent future cyberattacks. The agency is also calling on Congress to provide additional resources to modernize its IT systems.
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Help AFGE Hold OPM Accountable for the Data Breach. Tell Us about Your Experience:
June 26, 2015
It’s been three weeks since the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) publicly announced a massive data breach of personnel data systems affecting millions of current and former federal employees.
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AFGE Council 120 Discusses Workplace Issues with Coast Guard Commandant
June 26, 2015
Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Paul Zukunft met with the Executive Board of AFGE Council 120 and the management representatives from the CG/AFGE National Labor Management Forum on June 15 at Coast Guard Headquarters. Admiral Zukunft was joined by Vice Commandant Vice Admiral Peter Neffinger.
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DHS, Workers' Rights
Did you miss the Capital Pride Parade?New Page
June 26, 2015
You’re in luck. AFGE participated in the Pride Parade in the nation’s capital for the first time and we got some great footage from the parade that took place on Saturday, June 13.
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Washington, D.C., Workers' Rights
AFGE Local 2058 Stops National Park Service from Spying on Employees
June 26, 2015
The National Park Service (NPS) in Philadelphia wanted to use security cameras to monitor employees and conduct performance evaluations. But AFGE Local 2058 said “Not so fast,” and the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) sided with the union.
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Pride: Meet Tamara Lusardi
June 24, 2015
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Defending Due Process
June 24, 2015
Now more than ever, we are witnessing a spike in misleading and mean-spirited attacks on federal employees’ right to due process. This is a vital and eminently practical system that holds employees and management accountable to our nation’s ideals of an apolitical civil service, and one that is worth fighting for.
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VA, Workers' Rights
Pride: Meet Virginia Hemingway
June 22, 2015
Virginia Hemingway is a loving partner, mother, and fierce LGBTQ advocate serving as the Executive Vice President of AFGE Local 2433.
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Pride: Meet Valorie ReillyNew Page
June 22, 2015
Valorie is a employee at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Floridia and a member of AFGE Local 1594.
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A Bright Future for LGBT and Labor RightsNew Page
June 22, 2015
For Matthew Bessell, advocating for the human rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has been a decades long labor of love.
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Pride: Meet Travis Riggs
June 22, 2015
Labor plays a major role in all of our lives, whether we admit it or not. With the LGBT community, Labor has been a much larger ally than many would first suspect.
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AFGE: Feds Should Be Able to Use Work Hours to Deal with Stolen Data
June 19, 2015
Federal employees should be able to use their work hours to deal with the impact of the data breach that has compromised their personal information, AFGE said in a letter to Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Katherine Archuleta this week.
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Walmart Is Hiding $76 Billion in Tax Havens
June 19, 2015
Besides costing U.S. taxpayers $6.2 billion a year in public assistance for its poverty-wage workers, Walmart is depleting the country’s revenue by hiding $76 billion in tax havens around the world.
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