If you work hard and invest into something, you should reap the benefits. But next year, 11 million Americans who have worked hard and paid into Social Security for 22 years on average stand to lose a big chunk of their hard earned money – nearly 20% to be exact.
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The record breaking calls from AFGE activists to their elected members of Congress blocked efforts to rush a bad bill through both the House and the Senate before they leave town for the August recess this week.
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AFGE denounced the passage of H.R. 1994, legislation that will destroy the due process rights of more than 350,000 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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One in three VA employees are veterans, but that doesn’t stop elected officials from the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs from passing legislation that would give VA managers a green light to fire front line employees whenever, wherever.
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The Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday passed the 2016 Financial Services appropriations bill without blocking a 1.3% pay raise for federal employees proposed by President Barack Obama.
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It's been seven years since Joseph Cabrera Sablan killed Correctional Officer Jose Rivera while Rivera was on the job at USP Atwater. On Wednesday in Los Angeles, Sablan took a plea deal to serve a second life sentence, avoiding the death penalty as punishment for his crime.
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The Senate Appropriations Committee this week passed the 2016 Financial Services appropriations bill with a provision renewing a government-wide ban on the A-76 outsourcing process. An A-76 prohibition specific to the Department of Defense was included in the FY10 National Defense Authorization Act.
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Since launching our Big Enough to Win campaign earlier this year, AFGE has been actively growing memberships both through existing units and new units. We have won several union elections the past few months, giving us an opportunity to represent and provide workplace protections to employees who serve our country.
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Within one day, a letter showing support for federal civilians working at depots and arsenals across the country garnered 26 elected officials’ signatures – pretty impressive considering competing priorities and a short time frame.
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AFGE is known for our relentlessness in the pursuit of justice, and what happened this week shows our will to provide workplace protections for federal employees even though it might take years.
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AFGE commends the Senate Appropriations Committee for adopting measures that would enhance protections for current and former federal employees and job applicants whose personal information was stolen during data breaches into the Office of Personnel Management’s computer systems.
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4.2 million federal employees' personal data was compromised because of a Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach. An additional 21.5 million people have had their personal data stolen because of intrusions into OPM’s computer systems.
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In response to the murder of five servicemen in Chattanooga, TN, the American Federation of Government Employees, representing 670,000 federal and D.C. government employees across the U.S. and abroad, issued a statement sharing our condolences to their families.
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AFGE’s Council of Prison Locals has been working for years to reform harsh sentencing laws like mandatory minimums and curb the resulting rampant overcrowding of prisons, which strains budgets and endangers both officers and inmates. On July 16, we gained a powerful ally in the fight when President Obama called for ending mandatory minimum sentencing for non-violent drug offenders during a tour of FCI El Reno in Oklahoma.
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AFGE has just won a union election for Registered Nurses at Ft. Lee, Virginia. The unit comprises about 35 Army civilian nurses, who will be represented by Local 1178 led by President Willie Slater.
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