These awards are in honor of National Vice President Emeritus Augusta Y. Thomas, a dedicated trade unionist and true champion for civil, human, women's, and workers' rights.
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Before the holidays, Congress passed two 2020 government funding packages that included all appropriations bills and several measures AFGE strongly supported.
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We are fighting against attacks on our pay, retirement, benefits and employee rights. This conference is our chance to come to Washington, D.C. and tell Congress about the important work we do for the American public. Let’s fight for our pay, benefits and rights. Come make your voice heard on Capitol Hill! Will you join us?
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Our hard work paid off in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) where we made major inroads on many fronts that are not limited to just the Department of Defense.
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After a series of protests, phone calls, and Capitol Hill visits, our union is happy to announce that we have successfully blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and politicizing the agency’s human resources policy functions.
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Hourly and salaried workers working in the same locations would receive the same local pay rates if new legislation that AFGE supports became law.
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Thanks to AFGE’s persistence, federal employees who are new parents are one step closer to receiving an important work/life benefit they have been waiting for years: 12 weeks of paid leave to take care of a new child.
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AFGE National VA Council is set to file a national grievance against the Department of Veterans Affairs after the agency refused to negotiate President Trump’s anti-worker executive orders with the union.
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From hiring freezes to government shutdowns, there is no shortage of bad policies coming from the Trump White House. Now the administration is rolling out some major anti-worker changes to personnel policies as part of its public service deconstruction plan.
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The Women’s and Fair Practices Departments has announced that next year’s Diversity Week will take place at the National Harbor in Maryland from July 31 to Aug. 8.
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AFGE is prepared to challenge any agency that implements Trump’s executive orders without first bargaining with the union.
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Forty-three U.S. senators are calling on Senate leadership and appropriators to protect federal employees’ workplace rights as they work to finalize the 2020 financial services and general government funding bill.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs and AFGE are scheduled to meet Dec. 3. It’s not clear, however, what issues are going to be discussed as the VA has not responded to the union as of Dec.1.
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A pork company got caught producing pork without federal inspection, resulting in a massive recall of 515,000 pounds of pork.
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