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Welcome to Women's History Month

March 11, 2015

March is recognized as Women’s History Month and AFGE’s Women’s and Fair Practices Departments will again take this opportunity to inform you of a few women - some of them you may know and others you may not - who have done great things and made history.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, Labor

Obama to Meet with AFGE Local Leaders at Phoenix VA Hospital

March 11, 2015

President Barack Obama is visiting the Phoenix VA hospital this Friday, and he has asked to meet with AFGE Local 2382 President Louis Curry and staff when he’s there.

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Categories: VA, Budget, U.S. President

AFGE Remembers Linda Mason

March 05, 2015

AFGE National President J. David Cox, Sr., released the following statement regarding the loss of longtime AFGE activist Linda Mason

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Categories: AFGE National Departments, AFGE National President

SSA Local 3615 Celebrates Black History Month

March 05, 2015

“When you are young, gifted, and black, your soul’s intact. Young, gifted, and black, oh how long I tell the truth. There are times when I look back, and I am haunted by my youth."

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Categories: SSA, Labor, Civil Rights, Retirees

Panel, Pentagon Come after Military Families, Employees

March 05, 2015

The exchanges and commissaries are an earned benefit treasured by military families and an important contributor to their quality of life. The modest cost of providing military families with inexpensive but essential goods and services is almost invisible in the Department of Defense’s (DoD) overall budget.

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Categories: DoD, Pay, Budget

AFGE VA Local’s Push Back Got Management to Scrap Outsourcing Plan

March 05, 2015

A few weeks ago, the AFGE Local at the Phoenix VA Medical Center was asked by management to agree to contracting out Scheduling Clerks positions and even drafted a Memorandum of Understanding for them to sign.

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Categories: VA, Outsourcing

This Bill Will Rob You of Your Retirement

March 04, 2015

In a renewed attempt to scapegoat public service employees for the financial crisis Wall Street created, Rep. Bruce Westerman of Arkansas this week introduced legislation that would amend the federal employee pension system to base their pension on the highest five years of salary, instead of the highest three years.

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Categories: Congress, Pay, Retirement

BOP Expands Use of Pepper Spray to All Staff at All Medium-Security Prisons

March 02, 2015

The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has agreed to allow all staff at all high and medium security prisons to carry pepper spray to protect themselves and others if attacked by inmates. This major victory is a culmination AFGE members’ efforts to create for better working conditions for the correctional officers that keep our communities safe.

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Categories: DOJ, BOP

DEFCON to Host Spring Lobbying Week

March 01, 2015

AFGE’s Defense Conference (DEFCON) will be hosting its first annual Spring Lobbying Week from March 22-27 in Washington, D.C.

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Categories: DoD, Workers' Rights, AFGE National Departments

DHS Remains on Brink of Shutdown

March 01, 2015

The agency that’s tasked with protecting the American homeland is still on the brink of a shutdown after the House of Representatives last Friday decided to fund the Department of Homeland Security for only one week instead of the entire fiscal year. The short-term funding measure runs out this Friday after midnight, sending Congress back to square one and crippling the important work of TSA, Border Patrol, ICE, FEMA, Coast Guard, FPS and other DHS agencies.

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Categories: DHS, Senate, Congress, Budget

These Bills Ensure DHS Employees Get Paid If DHS Shuts Down

February 26, 2015

Two AFGE-backed bills have been introduced in the House and Senate this week to ensure that employees in the Department of Homeland Security will be paid retroactively should a departmentwide shutdown occur.

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Categories: DHS

FMLA for Feds in Same-Sex Marriages No Matter Where They Live

February 26, 2015

The Labor Department announced the rule change in keeping with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Windsor, which struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act provision that interpreted "marriage" and "spouse" to be limited to opposite-sex marriage for the purposes of federal law.

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Categories: DOL, LGBT

AFGE Takes Part in Labor Department’s Black History Month

February 26, 2015

AFGE was honored to be invited to the Department of Labor’s Black History Month celebration featuring one of the most courageous persons the Civil Rights Movement ever produced – Congressman John Lewis of Georgia. AFGE was represented by National Secretary Treasurer Eugene Hudson, Jr., Council of Prison Locals President Eric Young, and Executive Assistant to the National Secretary-Treasurer Dr. Arla J. Bentley.

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Categories: Civil Rights

GAO to DHS: Your Employee Morale Still in the Dumps

February 26, 2015

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees don’t need another threat of a shutdown to make them even more miserable. They are already the least happy group of employees in the federal government. DHS has been either at or near the bottom of every government wide employee satisfaction survey. That fact is once again pointed out by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which put this chronic problem on its annual high-risk list for 2015.

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Categories: DHS

We Need a Speed Bump, Not Fast Track

February 26, 2015

Twenty years ago, NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement) was sold to Americans as a job-creating, economy-stimulating trade deal. But 20 years later, we know we have been duped. NAFTA cost the United States more than 1 million manufacturing jobs because of imports from Canada and Mexico or the relocation of factories to those countries. And now the administration and some in Congress are seeking authority to fast track international trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – which is being negotiated and modeled after NAFTA but involves 11 Asian and Latin American countries.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, Outsourcing , Privatization