When Congress created the Veterans Choice privatization program years ago to push veterans into for-profit hospitals, they sold it as a temporary fix for a shortage of VA facilities and health care professionals. But they never made building facilities and hiring personnel to care for veterans a priority.
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Government workers take to the streets to fight for fair pay, benefits, and retirement.
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Federal firefighters from the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments came to the nation’s capital in early October to fight for fair pay and healthier working conditions for all federal firefighters and first responders.
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J. David Cox Sr. has served as national president of the American Federation of Government Employees since 2012 and was the union’s secretary-treasurer for six years prior. AFGE, an AFL-CIO affiliate, represents 700,000 employees across 14 federal agencies with 310,000 active members. Cox, a former nurse in the Veterans Affairs Department, spoke with National Journal's Alex Clearfield about the federal workforce and why President Trump is “Bush on steroids.”
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Special interests’ and their allies in Congress’ attacks on federal employees’ pay, benefits, and rights were relentless the past few weeks, but they couldn’t match the will and activism of AFGE members who bombarded Congress with calls, letters, and visits to their lawmakers. The results? These three major legislative victories that protect the civil service, jobs, and taxpayer dollars.
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The Trump administration has directed all agencies to create agency reorganization plan. Here are five things you need to know.
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As federal working people at the Environmental Protection Agency continue to face unnecessary budget cuts and reductions in staff, AFGE Council 238 held National Save the U.S. EPA Day on Wednesday, September 13 at the National Press Club.
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If Congress fails to pass a budget with funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall, President Trump has threatened to shut down the federal government - potentially leaving thousands of government employees and working families without pay or benefits.
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Only a few days before Congress went off on August recess, AFGE won several major legislative victories that protect the civil service, jobs, and taxpayer dollars. Here are our recent legislative victories you need to know about.
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What does it take to get the federal budget approved? This infographic explains →
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Congress April 30 reached a $1 trillion agreement to fund the government through the end of September, averting another shutdown threat at the end of this week.
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As massive budget cuts and reorganization loom, there's a big reason we should rethink what it means to invest in America.
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The winners and losers in the Administration's Budget Proposal.
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The House and Senate this week approved a funding package that keeps the federal government funded through September, 2016.
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Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois recently sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter criticizing the way the department is managing its workforces, especially its tendency to use contractors to do the work even though they are two to three times more expensive than DoD civilians.
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