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Why Your Coworkers Need to Join Our Union Now

August 06, 2018

With all the new anti-federal employee laws, pending bills, and Executive Orders, you may feel federal employees are the sole target of politicians. In reality, these politicians have been coming after all working people for decades.

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Categories: The Insider, Organizing

AFGE On the Rise: What We've Accomplished Together

August 06, 2018

A lot of things have happened since our last national convention in 2015 – a new administration, hiring freezes, anti-union executive orders – just to name a few. But our list of some of our accomplishments below shows that our union is most powerful when we all stand together to protect our rights and democratic values.

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Categories: Official Time, Pay, Workers' Rights, Benefits, The Insider, Contracts, Organizing

Two Little-Known Bills That Take Away Your Rights

August 06, 2018

Some members of Congress have introduced pieces of legislation that are not only hostile to employees but are also against our democratic values. What’s worse is that not many people know about them.

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Categories: Official Time, Workers' Rights, Labor, The Insider, Contracts, Organizing , Grievance Procedures

Senate Approves 1.9% Raise for Feds Next Year

August 06, 2018

Because of your activism, the Senate has approved a 1.9% pay raise for federal workers next year. This modest pay adjustment would help prevent federal employees from falling further behind next year and help federal agencies recruit and retain the high-caliber workforce that the public expects and deserves.

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Categories: Senate, Pay, The Insider

America Before Social Security

August 06, 2018

Eighty-three years ago, on Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act as a safeguard "against the hazards and vicissitudes of life." Today, Social Security single-handedly keeps 22 million Americans out of poverty. We are better off today because generations before us demanded that our government do something to save us from poverty as we enter old age.

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Categories: SSA, Member Benefits, Privatization, Retirement, Social Security, The Insider, Retirees

86 Years of Fighting for Workers

August 06, 2018

Throughout our history, we have been champions of equality and justice in the workplace. Our government’s mission is to make America work for everyone, and 86 years after our founding, AFGE is proud to represent those who make America move forward.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, The Insider

Massive Protests in the Streets, Congress, Court Against Illegal Executive Orders

July 30, 2018

Thousands of AFGE members, more than 100 union presidents, members of Congress, and union members from unions throughout the country gathered to wear red for feds and stand up to the illegal executive orders targeting federal employees.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, Labor, The Insider, National Event, Executive Orders

FLRA Says Education Department Engaged in Union Busting

July 30, 2018

In the first victory against the Trump administration’s efforts to purge your union and your rights in the workplace, our union prevailed in an unfair labor practice investigation against the Department of Education, which unilaterally imposed its own illegal edict on 3,900 federal employees.

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Categories: The Insider, Contracts

VIDEO: We Are America's Workforce!

July 30, 2018

From putting the first man on the moon to ensuring your food is safe to eat, federal employees, like you, make profound differences in our lives every day. Your union is proud to represent these fine men and women, and help them do their jobs better serving the American people. That’s why we’re launching the America’s Workforce campaign – to tell our stories and show the country the important work we do!

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Categories: The Insider

Apply Now for the 2019 Union Plus Scholarship!

July 30, 2018

Over the past 27 years, more than $4.3 million have been awarded to students of over 2,900 union families. Start your application today at www.unionplus.org/scholarship.

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Categories: Member Benefits, The Insider

Raising Our Voices In Court, In the Streets

July 23, 2018

On #RedforFeds Day, July 25, our union and members across the country are taking the administration to court and will be in the streets to protest his union-busting, democracy-busting executive orders.

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Categories: Official Time, Workers' Rights, The Insider, National Event, Executive Orders

VA Begins Attack on our Union, Due Process

July 23, 2018

The Department of Veterans Affairs has begun implementing the administration's executive order purging unions and gutting your rights to fight injustice in the workplace.

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Categories: VA, Official Time, Workers' Rights, Veterans, Labor, The Insider, Contracts, Organizing

House Panel Votes to Gut Due Process

July 23, 2018

Without due process, we cannot have a democratic system. Only in a dictatorship where citizens are not protected by a system of due process and could be wrongfully punished. Unfortunately, some politicians are taking our country in that direction.

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Categories: Congress, Official Time, Workers' Rights, The Insider, Contracts, Organizing

Happy 60th Birthday, NASA!

July 23, 2018

For 60 years, NASA’s mission to further knowledge of our home planet and the search for life on other worlds is a source of pride for us all. From Apollo 13’s journey to the Moon to Pioneer 10’s flight to Jupiter, NASA employees’ expertise, passion, and dedication have helped us reach the stars. For them, the sky is literally not the limit.

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Categories: The Insider

SSA Management Launches All-Out Attack on Our Union, Employees

July 16, 2018

In yet another example of an irresponsible, undemocratic, unprecedented attempt to wipe out labor unions from the United States, the Trump administration has ordered federal agencies across the country to begin implementing the three controversial executive orders to obstruct our work fighting discrimination, retaliation, and injustices in the federal workplace.

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