When he's not teaching at Ithaca College, Ari Kissiloff and his family are traveling to some of the most beautiful and historic spots in the United States on a quest to visit every last one of our country's National Parks. So what can the parks teach us?
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EEOC launches Pride Month by honoring AFGE transgender member behind landmark ruling.
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AFGE VA Local 1061 Vice President Dewanda Mitchell’s aunt died of ovarian cancer. She volunteered to help raise awareness, not knowing she herself would be diagnosed with the deadly disease.
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With dozens of events across the country, meeting and organizing new members has never been easier. Find out what's happening in your area?
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The Union Plus Mortgage Program, a benefit available to AFGE members, helped one woman and her family leave a sheltered for battered women and fulfill their dreams of owning a home.
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There is truly no limit to the depth that anti-union lawmakers will stoop in their ongoing crusade to suppress the workers’ voice at the job site.
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Sgt. Jody Fiala goes above and beyond the call of duty as lead patrol officer at Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Fla. He’s an emergency response expert who has trained more than 5,000 people on what to do during an active shooting incident.
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Follow two AFGE members as they start with a training in leadership, and leave with a PHD in union solidarity.
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Like many Americans, Sporin thought the way employers treated workers poorly was the norm until he took a job at a cardboard box factory where employees were represented by the Teamsters. It was the first time he saw the pride, self-respect, and a sense of stability that came with the fraternity of a union.
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Ron Demicheli is everywhere - pounding the pavement, serving on boards, and convincing a quarter of his union to show how much they care about our cause. He may be the most active AFGE retiree yet.
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When Gulf War veteran Eric Young was medically discharged from the U.S Army in 1993 as a 60% service-connected veteran, he knew that he could trust the doctors and medical staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs to get him back on his feet.
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This organizer and her team have helped set records at her Local – and they’re getting very close to having every employee as an AFGE member.
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When he was in high school, National Border Patrol Council Vice President Shawn Moran would do anything to get on the radio. Now he doesn't have to choose between homeland security and radio.
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She was supposed to become a minister, but life circumstances changed her choice of vocation.
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The deeper one person got into her VA career, the more apparent it became that those who speak up about problems with patient care were being ostracized, criticized and by certain managers. There was a dark side to the workplace she loved—a culture steeped in intimidation, retaliation and reprisal—and she knew that someone needed to do something about it. Read her story:
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