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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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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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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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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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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