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AFGE Demands Accountability Following Cyberattack Targeting 4 Million Employees, Retirees

June 05, 2015

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) informed AFGE Thursday evening that the personal information of all 2.1 million current federal employees and an additional 2 million federal retirees and former federal employees may have been compromised during a Chinese cyberattack.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, Member Benefits

AFGE Urges Senators Not to Privatize Commissaries

June 05, 2015

As the House is debating the 2016 Defense Authorization bill, AFGE is urging senators to support a measure that would strike a provision that would privatize commissaries and cut a crucial earned benefit that has helped military families make ends meet.

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Categories: DoD, Senate, Privatization

Activist of the Week: Meet the AFGE Activist Who Helped His Local Win 8 Awards

June 05, 2015

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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Categories: Washington, D.C., D.C. Government, Workers' Rights

Building Solidarity with Pride

June 05, 2015

AFGE is proud to be a Rainbow Sponsor of the 40th Celebration of Pride in the Nation’s Capital. As the nation's largest labor union representing federal and D.C. government workers, AFGE uplifts, affirms and protects the workplace rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

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Categories: Washington, D.C., Workers' Rights, Member Benefits

Activists Storm U.S. Trade Building Demanding Full Disclosure of Secret Trade Deal

June 05, 2015

Undeterred by a June shower, labor activists from across the country on Tuesday gathered at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. before marching to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), demanding to see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a secret trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 other countries.

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Categories: Washington, D.C., Outsourcing

It’s Time for a $15 Federal Minimum Wage

June 05, 2015

Some wage-grade workers, like commissary employees, are facing pay cuts.Some wage-grade workers, like commissary employees, are facing pay cuts. Kevin L. Robinson/Defense Commissary Agency.

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Categories: Pay, Workers' Rights

AFGE Won Huge Victory for LEOs, Firefighters on TSP Early Withdrawal Bill

June 05, 2015

AFGE law enforcement members have fought for this for the past several years, and today we're happy to report that the Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would eliminate a 10% early withdrawal penalty for federal law enforcement officers when they retire after age 50.This would never have happened if it wasn’t for our efforts.

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Categories: DOJ, Member Benefits, BOP, Retirement

AFGE Secures Locality Pay Increase for 102K Feds in 78 Counties

June 05, 2015

About 102,000 federal employees in 78 counties throughout the U.S. are slated to receive a locality pay raise in January.

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Categories: Pay

AFGE Responds to OPM Security Breach

June 04, 2015

AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. today issued the following statement on the data security breach at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM):

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Categories: Workers' Rights, Member Benefits

Congress Is Threatening Your Union Rights. Tell Them To Cut It Out.

June 03, 2015

Congress is mounting an attack on collective bargaining and official time. Again.

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Categories: Senate, Congress, Official Time, Workers' Rights

We Did It Again! AFGE Reached Highest Membership on Record!

June 02, 2015

AFGE membership at the end of May reached an all-time high of 294,482 active members, topping last month's record membership by 1,816 new members!

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Categories: Big Enough to Win

Commissaries Facing New Threat: Privatization

May 29, 2015

In the latest threat against military grocery stores that have long helped military personnel and their families make ends meet, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted to cut this major source of financial relief and hand over the commissaries to for-profit businesses.

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Categories: DoD, Senate, Congress

Veterans, AFGE VA Local in Wisconsin Unite against Koch-backed VA Privatization

May 29, 2015

Working with AFGE Local 1732 in Madison, Wisconsin, the South Central Federation of Labor, the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, and the AFT-Wisconsin chapter have each passed a resolution against congressional efforts to privatize the Veterans Affairs health care system. Behind these privatization efforts are the Koch brothers who also fund a front group named Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), which has been pushing Congress to hand over veterans’ health care to for-profit businesses.

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Categories: VA, Privatization

AFGE Supports High Standards for All Contractors, Not Subjective Special Hiring Preferences

May 29, 2015

There has been a proposal floating around urging congressional office buildings and federal agencies to give special hiring preferences to federal contractors who promise to take the high road – providing a living wage, fair healthcare and benefits. Like the previous “best value” federal procurement process that has been ditched because it was subjective and prone to corruption, this supposedly high road approach similarly increases the risk of politics, subjectivity, and corruption.

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Categories: Workers' Rights

Arbitrator Tells BOP It’s Not OK to Discipline Someone Years after the Fact

May 29, 2015

Thanks to AFGE’s outstanding representation, an arbitrator recently overturned a suspension of a correctional officer from Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee, Florida. The BOP officer was given a one-day suspension after an incident surrounding his forgetting to perform rounds at the special housing unit.

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Categories: DOJ, Workers' Rights, BOP