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House-passed NDAA Restores Union Rights for Defense Civilians; Senate Debate Still Underway

September 15, 2025

The fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act that passed the House Sept. 10 retains a provision that would overturn President Trump’s executive order stripping nearly all Department of Defense civilian employees of their collective bargaining rights.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

U.S. Army Employees in Germany Vote to Join AFGE

May 06, 2024

Federal employees working for the U.S. Army at two locations in Germany have voted to join AFGE, part of a continuing effort to expand AFGE’s representation of federal employees working in Europe.

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Categories: DoD, District 14, The Insider

AFGE’s Election Win in Germany Spurs Interest in Union from American Workers in Europe

January 29, 2024

AFGE’s election win in Germany last month not only made headlines but also attracted interest in the union from American government workers stationed overseas.

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Categories: DoD, District 14, The Insider

Lawmakers, AFGE Members in Quad Cities Push for More Workers Compensation Medical Providers

December 18, 2023

A group of lawmakers in Illinois and Iowa is pressing the Department of Labor to make sure there are enough medical providers who take workers’ compensation cases so federal workers don’t have to travel far for care or go without the treatments they need for on-the-job injuries.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

Fort Eisenhower Employee Reinstated with Back Pay, Compensatory Damages in Discrimination Case

December 18, 2023

The Army at Fort Eisenhower, previously Ft. Gordon, agreed to reinstate an employee to her position and awarded her compensatory damages and back pay following a series of discrimination and wrongful termination complaints.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

DEFCON Training Open to ALL AFGE Members. Register Now!

July 31, 2023

Registration is now underway for the AFGE Defense Conference’s annual training, which will be held the first week of September at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

AFGE Revives Local in This Southern Italian Town as DoD Civilians Renew Interest in Union

July 17, 2023

AFGE is working to revive union representation at a long-established local at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Naples in Italy after members and potential members have expressed renewed interest in the union.

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Categories: DoD, District 14, The Insider

New GAO Report Shows DoD Needs to Hire More Women, Minorities

July 10, 2023

The Department of Defense civilian workforce has lower percentages of women and minorities than the rest of the federal government, according to 10 years of data analyzed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

DoD Identifies 23,000 Employees with Pension Errors

June 12, 2023

The Department of Defense recently began notifying more than 23,000 employees that they have been receiving either an overpayment or underpayment of their salary due to calculation errors in their pension contributions.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

Employees at Rock Island Arsenal Protest Illegal Contract

April 17, 2023

Management and employees at Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois have not reached an agreement on their new contract, but management is planning to impose its own terms on the workers starting April 23. Employees, which negotiated in good faith with management for over a year only to be ignored. are not having any of it.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

AFGE Launching New Local to Cover Federal Employees in Europe

April 03, 2023

AFGE is in the process of launching a new local to cover more than 10,000 federal employees working for U.S. agencies in Europe who currently lack a collective voice at work.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

AFGE Urges Pentagon to Invest in Its Own Military Supply Production to Meet Global Security Threats

April 03, 2023

The Pentagon should ramp up its own production of military equipment by leveraging the civilian workforce’s expertise as the war in Ukraine is straining the U.S.’s military supply.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

The Pentagon Is Taking Advantage of Foreign Language Teachers

March 27, 2023

Besides having no job security, the teachers are underpaid due to the agency’s 50 individual faculty pay steps and avoidance of any periodic pay-step increases.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

Several Key AFGE Priorities Included in Compromise 2023 Defense Authorization Act

December 12, 2022

AFGE thanks Senate and House negotiators for including many of our union’s top priorities affecting employees in the Department of Defense and other federal agencies in the compromise version of the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act that passed the House on Dec. 8.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

AFGE Details Support, Opposition for Various Issues in Defense Authorization Bill

October 17, 2022

AFGE has sent a letter to all U.S. senators urging them to support or oppose various amendments to the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act that will be considered by the Senate next month.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider