What do U.S. companies like Goodyear, ExxonMobil, and Freeport-McMoRan have in common? A long record of horrendous labor and human rights abuses disguised as a campaign for freedom and democracy in Indonesia.
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AFGE this week won elections for both professionals and non-professionals at the Redstone space command in Alabama.
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The Labor Department is cutting funding for the Forest Service Job Corps Centers by $16 million, raising questions about possible furloughs or a reduction-in-force (RIF) at several centers.
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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced this week that notifications will begin to go out to the 21.5 million individuals affected by the data breach involving the federal government’s background investigation records beginning in September.
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When she was in elementary school, Grace Jividen remembers sitting on the sidelines of her brother's judo match and crying - not because she was bored. But because she wanted a chance to play too.
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Thanks to letters and phone calls AFGE activists made to their elected officials this week, both the House and the Senate approved legislation that would give the Department of Veterans Affairs the flexibility to shift funds from one account to another to keep hospitals open and avoid furloughing employees.
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In honor of Hispanic Heritage month, the AFL-CIO Labor Council For Latin American Advancement (LCAA) is putting together a new report about how unions can positively impact the lives of Latinos. The LCAA is looking for YOUR stories to feature in their new report.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and HUD AFGE Council 222 last week signed a new labor-management contract, the first in nearly 20 years.
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Contractors are about to have a field day as the latest analysis shows the Army, under full sequestration, will have to cut an additional 6,000 civilian positions on top of the 17,000 earlier reported.
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If you work hard and invest into something, you should reap the benefits. But next year, 11 million Americans who have worked hard and paid into Social Security for 22 years on average stand to lose a big chunk of their hard earned money – nearly 20% to be exact.
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The record breaking calls from AFGE activists to their elected members of Congress blocked efforts to rush a bad bill through both the House and the Senate before they leave town for the August recess this week.
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AFGE denounced the passage of H.R. 1994, legislation that will destroy the due process rights of more than 350,000 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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One in three VA employees are veterans, but that doesn’t stop elected officials from the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs from passing legislation that would give VA managers a green light to fire front line employees whenever, wherever.
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The Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday passed the 2016 Financial Services appropriations bill without blocking a 1.3% pay raise for federal employees proposed by President Barack Obama.
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It's been seven years since Joseph Cabrera Sablan killed Correctional Officer Jose Rivera while Rivera was on the job at USP Atwater. On Wednesday in Los Angeles, Sablan took a plea deal to serve a second life sentence, avoiding the death penalty as punishment for his crime.
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