It’s been three weeks since the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) publicly announced a massive data breach of personnel data systems affecting millions of current and former federal employees.
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Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Paul Zukunft met with the Executive Board of AFGE Council 120 and the management representatives from the CG/AFGE National Labor Management Forum on June 15 at Coast Guard Headquarters. Admiral Zukunft was joined by Vice Commandant Vice Admiral Peter Neffinger.
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You’re in luck. AFGE participated in the Pride Parade in the nation’s capital for the first time and we got some great footage from the parade that took place on Saturday, June 13.
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The National Park Service (NPS) in Philadelphia wanted to use security cameras to monitor employees and conduct performance evaluations. But AFGE Local 2058 said “Not so fast,” and the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) sided with the union.
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The Senate on Monday voted to confirm Coast Guard Vice Adm. Peter Neffenger as the new administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). AFGE, represents 45,000 TSA employees across the U.S.
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The House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on Thursday approved with a minor revision a bill that would allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire all employees, including non-management, at will.
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The House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on Thursday approved with a minor revision a bill that would allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire all employees, including non-management, at will.
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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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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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Valorie is a employee at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Floridia and a member of AFGE Local 1594.
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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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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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