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AFGE Vows to Fight Appeals Court Ruling That Greenlights Union-Busting Executive Orders

July 22, 2019

Our union is calling on members of Congress to protect federal employees’ workplace rights and freedom to join a union after the U.S. Court of Appeals issued a decision greenlighting President Trump’s union-busting executive orders.

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Categories: The Insider, Executive Orders

How the President Is Using FLRA to Attack Federal Employees and Purge Unions

July 22, 2019

Under the anti-worker Trump administration, the FLRA’s mission has been skewed to reflect the administration’s political agenda of decimating the federal workforce and purging your union.

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Categories: The Insider

USDA Firing Half of Scientists at 2 Research Agencies

July 22, 2019

The Trump administration is sending out removal letters to 250 scientists and researchers at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) who have declined short-notice relocation from Washington, D.C. to a not-yet-to-be determined area in the Kansas City region.

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Categories: USDA, The Insider

AFGE Vows to Fight Appeals Court Ruling that Greenlights Union-Busting Executive Orders

July 17, 2019

In light of the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia did not have jurisdiction to rule on the matter of the legal challenge by AFGE and other federal unions to President Trump’s May 2018 union-busting executive orders, AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. released a statement.

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Categories: The Insider

House Pushes Paid Family Leave

July 15, 2019

AFGE supports a paid family leave measure that has been added to the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.

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Categories: The Insider

Mass Exodus Projected If USDA Forces NIFA Workers to Relocate

July 15, 2019

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is projected to experience catastrophic employee attrition as a result of the short-notice move of 90% of all NIFA employees out of the National Capital Region.

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Categories: USDA, The Insider

NST Everett Kelley Honored with Roving Ambassador for Peace Prize

July 15, 2019

Our very own National Secretary-Treasurer Everett Kelley has been awarded the Roving Ambassador for Peace Prize from the World Peace Prize Awarding Council.

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Categories: AFGE National Staff, The Insider

How 2020 Defense Bill Will Affect All Feds for Years to Come

July 15, 2019

The House on July 12 passed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act with several provisions that affect not only Defense employees but all federal employees governmentwide.

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Categories: DoD, OPM, The Insider

AFGE Scores Victory in Data Breach Lawsuit

July 08, 2019

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit largely sided with our union when it ruled that federal employees have standing to sue the government over its failure to protect employees’ personal data which led to one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history.

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Categories: OPM, The Insider

AFGE Files Charge Against NPS for Trying to Implement Trump’s Illegal Executive Orders

July 08, 2019

AFGE filed an unfair labor practice charge against the National Park Service (NPS) for declaring they would impose anti-worker management directives on NPS employees nationwide.

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Categories: The Insider, Executive Orders

Most ERS Employees Likely to Decline Relocation

July 08, 2019

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service (ERS) could expect most of its 200 employees to decline relocation, raising concerns about brain drain and the agency’s ability to fulfill its mission and serve the American people

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Categories: The Insider

Arbitrator Rules VA Broke Law by Disclosing Workers’ Personal Data

July 08, 2019

A federal arbitrator has ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to remove an online listing of major disciplinary actions taken against VA employees.

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Categories: VA, The Insider

House Approves 3.1% Raise for Feds in 2020, Blocks Dismantling of OPM

July 01, 2019

Thanks to the thousands of calls AFGE members made to Congress, the House of Representatives on June 26 approved a 3.1% raise for federal employees next year, rejecting President Trump’s proposed pay freeze.

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Categories: Pay, OPM, The Insider

GSA to Close Federal Complex Plagued by Cancer-Causing Chemicals Following AFGE’s Complaint

July 01, 2019

AFGE members came together to demand a safe workplace, and their efforts paid off. Employees were informed that the General Services Administration (GSA) will cease operating at the contaminated Goodfellow Complex in St. Louis, Mo., and employees will be moved to a new location.

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Categories: SSA, USDA, VA, The Insider

AFGE Files Charge Against EPA for Trying to Implement Anti-Worker Directives Declared Illegal by Court

July 01, 2019

Our union on June 25 filed an unfair labor practice charge against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for declaring they would impose new anti-worker management directives on nearly 9,000 EPA employees.

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Categories: EPA, The Insider