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Senate Passes New Retirement Savings Fund Bill

December 11, 2014

The Senate this week voted to adopt a House-passed bill that will automatically enroll new hires in the Lifecycle Fund, a federal employees’ retirement savings fund that’s geared toward younger employees and yields higher returns but also higher risk.

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Categories: Pay

AFGE Wins Landmark Suitability Case in Federal Circuit

December 11, 2014

The AFGE General Counsel’s Office won a major legal victory this week that reaffirms the adverse action appeal rights of non-probationary federal employees who are removed by their employing agency at the direction of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

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Categories: Workers' Rights

House, Senate Pass Short-Term Funding Bill

December 11, 2014

Categories: Budget

House Budget Committee Ranking Member Shines Spotlight on Expensive Contracted Workforce

December 11, 2014

At the urging of AFGE, House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to do an analysis on the cost of the contractor workforce and potential savings from reducing the use of expensive contractors.

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Categories: Congress, Budget

AFGE TSA Council Reaches Highest Membership at 15,814!

December 09, 2014

Congratulations to the AFGE TSA Council for reaching the highest membership mark at 15,814 members.

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Categories: TSA

Border Patrol Union Praises House Passage of Landmark Pay Reform Bill

December 09, 2014

The House this week passed an AFGE-backed bill to reform the Border Patrol pay system. The milestone came after years of concerted effort by the union and bipartisan supporters in both chambers of Congress.

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Categories: Border Patrol

DoD Appears to Forsake Commitment to Saving Taxpayers’ Dollars Through Better Sourcing Decisions

December 04, 2014

The Defense Department is not very enthusiastic about saving taxpayers’ dollars as it has decided to halt the statutorily required inventory of service contracts.

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Categories: DoD

House-Senate Negotiators Reach Agreement on Defense Authorization Act

December 04, 2014

House and Senate conferees this week reached an agreement on the 2015 Defense Authorization Act with a number of provisions that affect civilian employees.

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Congressional Budget Office’s One-Sided Take on Deficit Reduction

December 04, 2014

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) continues its questionable process of coming up with a one-sided list of options presented to Congress as an a la carte menu for deficit reductions.

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Categories: Budget

Funding for Rest of 2015 Expected for Most Agencies Except Homeland Security

December 04, 2014

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers said House and Senate negotiators are wrapping up negotiations over government funding bills and are hoping to file a consolidated bill to fund all agencies except the Department of Homeland Security for the rest of fiscal 2015.

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Categories: DHS

House Passes Bill to Double Transit Subsidy for Workers

December 04, 2014

The House this week passed legislation that would increase the transit subsidy from $130 to $250 per month for workers whose employers offer transit subsidies, including federal employees.

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Categories: Pay

Underpaid Workers at Minot AFB Win Pay Rate Increase

December 03, 2014

AFGE applauded the Office of Personnel Management for approving a union-backed plan to increase wages for employees at Minot Air Force Base to compensate for a spike in living costs.

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Categories: DoD, Pay

AFGE Reaches Highest Membership Ever

December 02, 2014

AFGE last month reached its highest membership ever at 288,374 members.

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Categories: Big Enough to Win

How One Woman Helped Change the VA

November 25, 2014

In 2011, Dr. Michelle Washington went before Congress to sound the alarm about a shortage of VA doctors able to treat troops returning from war with post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Categories: VA, Workers' Rights

AFGE to Hold DoD Conference Call on Cuts to Travel Per Diem

November 25, 2014

On December 4th at 11 a.m. EST, the AFGE Legislative and Political Action Department will hold a conference call to discuss the recent changes to the Joint Travel Registry (JTR) that reduce per diem pay for long-term TDY travel.

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Categories: DoD