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Pride: Meet Tamara Lusardi
June 24, 2015
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Workers' Rights, Member Profile
Defending Due Process
June 24, 2015
Now more than ever, we are witnessing a spike in misleading and mean-spirited attacks on federal employees’ right to due process. This is a vital and eminently practical system that holds employees and management accountable to our nation’s ideals of an apolitical civil service, and one that is worth fighting for.
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VA, Workers' Rights
Pride: Meet Jennifer Cari-Green
June 23, 2015
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Member Benefits, Member Profile
Pride: Meet Virginia Hemingway
June 22, 2015
Virginia Hemingway is a loving partner, mother, and fierce LGBTQ advocate serving as the Executive Vice President of AFGE Local 2433.
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Workers' Rights, Member Profile
Pride: Meet Valorie ReillyNew Page
June 22, 2015
Valorie is a employee at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Floridia and a member of AFGE Local 1594.
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Workers' Rights, Member Profile
A Bright Future for LGBT and Labor RightsNew Page
June 22, 2015
For Matthew Bessell, advocating for the human rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has been a decades long labor of love.
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Workers' Rights, Member Profile
Pride: Meet Travis Riggs
June 22, 2015
Labor plays a major role in all of our lives, whether we admit it or not. With the LGBT community, Labor has been a much larger ally than many would first suspect.
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Workers' Rights, Member Profile
Meet the 2015 Union Plus Scholarship Winners!
June 19, 2015
Of the more than 5,000 applications for the Union Plus Scholarship received from union members, their spouses and their dependent children in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands representing 36 unions, five are from AFGE!
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Member Benefits
AFGE: Feds Should Be Able to Use Work Hours to Deal with Stolen Data
June 19, 2015
Federal employees should be able to use their work hours to deal with the impact of the data breach that has compromised their personal information, AFGE said in a letter to Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Katherine Archuleta this week.
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Workers' Rights
Senate Rejects 1% Pay Cut for Federal Employees
June 19, 2015
The Senate this week voted down a proposal by Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana to cut federal employees’ pay by 1% in 2016 and 2017 and use the savings to pay for additional brigades the Army doesn’t want.
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AFGE Activists Stop Commissary Privatization in Its TracksNew Page
June 19, 2015
Thanks to the outstanding work of AFGE activists across the country, the Senate, on June 17, voted in favor of an AFGE-backed measure blocking privatization of the commissaries.
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AFGE Leaders Express Profound Grief, Condolences for Everyone Affected by Church Shooting
June 19, 2015
AFGE leaders expressed their profound grief for the victims of this week’s deadly shooting at an historic black church in downtown Charleston, S.C.
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Walmart Is Hiding $76 Billion in Tax Havens
June 19, 2015
Besides costing U.S. taxpayers $6.2 billion a year in public assistance for its poverty-wage workers, Walmart is depleting the country’s revenue by hiding $76 billion in tax havens around the world.
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Workers' Rights
Labor Secures Huge Win for Workers on Trade Deal
June 16, 2015
Thanks to pressure from the labor movement, hundreds of House lawmakers last Friday blocked a job-killing international trade agreement package from moving forward.
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Congress
