D.C. government employees are about to receive better paid leave benefits if this AFGE-backed bill that has just been approved by the D.C. Council becomes law.
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The last time Congress shut down the government for 16 days in 2013, it cost the economy $24 billion and 120,000 jobs in the private sector. There were also a few misconceptions out there about the shutdown and government employees. Before people start coming up with alternative facts again this time around, we want to set a few things straight.
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'Delay tactics' and 'underhanded maneuvers' won't cut it for DC Water public servants
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Organizational instability, service cuts, and poor services are some of the most common complaints made against private emergency services. Yet the D.C. Council chose to put the lives of D.C. residents at risk by voting to hand over control of critical emergency services to for-profit businesses.
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Congratulations to workers in the State of Missouri! An attempt to eliminate Missourians’ right to union representation has failed.
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Everybody should have the right to vote. But 50 years after the Voting Rights Act became law giving African-Americans equal rights at the polls, systematic voter suppression in the form of new voting laws has resulted in millions not being able to cast their ballots.
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After nearly 20 years, it finally happened. AFGE Local 2272 recently signed a new contract with the U.S. Marshals Service, ushering in a new era of collaboration and a new kind of relationship between management and the union.
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AFGE strongly encourages the Senate to pass Senator Blumenthal’s bill and reject S. 1082, which would give VA management greater power to silence whistleblowers and create a culture of fear for front-line workers -- an environment similar to the one that led to the wait list scandal in 2014.
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AFGE on Sept. 15 won a union election to represent doctors and dentists at a VA hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. Of the 200 eligible voters, 65 people voted yes and 4 people voted no. AFGE also won an election for a small group of 5 Environmental Protection Agency employees in Dallas who report to headquarters and weren’t in the unit. The vote was 4 yes, 0 no.
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If you are a public safety officer and lose your life protecting this country, your family will receive benefits so they don’t go bankrupt while mourning the loss of a loved one. Sadly, this is not the case at TSA.
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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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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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Francis Nichols III is the life of the party. It’s impossible not to notice him.
On a recent bus ride from Hilton Chicago to a local McDonalds where AFL-CIO Next Up Young Worker Summit participants would gather to protest its poverty wages, Francis took to the front of the bus and led fun chants that made a long ride exciting and memorable.
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The public, AFGE members, and Social Security Administration (SSA) employees received good news in the $1.1 trillion ‘CRomnibus’ package that keeps the government running through September 2015.
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