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AFGE Won Huge Victory for LEOs, Firefighters on TSP Early Withdrawal Bill

June 05, 2015

AFGE law enforcement members have fought for this for the past several years, and today we're happy to report that the Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would eliminate a 10% early withdrawal penalty for federal law enforcement officers when they retire after age 50.This would never have happened if it wasn’t for our efforts.

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Categories: DOJ, Member Benefits, BOP, Retirement

AFGE Secures Locality Pay Increase for 102K Feds in 78 Counties

June 05, 2015

About 102,000 federal employees in 78 counties throughout the U.S. are slated to receive a locality pay raise in January.

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Categories: Pay

AFGE Responds to OPM Security Breach

June 04, 2015

AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. today issued the following statement on the data security breach at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM):

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Categories: Workers' Rights, Member Benefits

Congress Is Threatening Your Union Rights. Tell Them To Cut It Out.

June 03, 2015

Congress is mounting an attack on collective bargaining and official time. Again.

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Categories: Senate, Congress, Official Time, Workers' Rights

We Did It Again! AFGE Reached Highest Membership on Record!

June 02, 2015

AFGE membership at the end of May reached an all-time high of 294,482 active members, topping last month's record membership by 1,816 new members!

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Categories: Big Enough to Win

Commissaries Facing New Threat: Privatization

May 29, 2015

In the latest threat against military grocery stores that have long helped military personnel and their families make ends meet, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted to cut this major source of financial relief and hand over the commissaries to for-profit businesses.

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Categories: DoD, Senate, Congress

Veterans, AFGE VA Local in Wisconsin Unite against Koch-backed VA Privatization

May 29, 2015

Working with AFGE Local 1732 in Madison, Wisconsin, the South Central Federation of Labor, the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, and the AFT-Wisconsin chapter have each passed a resolution against congressional efforts to privatize the Veterans Affairs health care system. Behind these privatization efforts are the Koch brothers who also fund a front group named Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), which has been pushing Congress to hand over veterans’ health care to for-profit businesses.

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Categories: VA, Privatization

AFGE Supports High Standards for All Contractors, Not Subjective Special Hiring Preferences

May 29, 2015

There has been a proposal floating around urging congressional office buildings and federal agencies to give special hiring preferences to federal contractors who promise to take the high road – providing a living wage, fair healthcare and benefits. Like the previous “best value” federal procurement process that has been ditched because it was subjective and prone to corruption, this supposedly high road approach similarly increases the risk of politics, subjectivity, and corruption.

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Categories: Workers' Rights

Arbitrator Tells BOP It’s Not OK to Discipline Someone Years after the Fact

May 29, 2015

Thanks to AFGE’s outstanding representation, an arbitrator recently overturned a suspension of a correctional officer from Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee, Florida. The BOP officer was given a one-day suspension after an incident surrounding his forgetting to perform rounds at the special housing unit.

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Categories: DOJ, Workers' Rights, BOP

Retired Army Colonel Gives a Shout out to Frontline Workers at Pittsburgh VA

May 29, 2015

Somebody noticed what we at AFGE noticed. There are serious problems at the senior levels at the Pittsburgh VA hospital, but frontline workers come to work every day with the goal of providing the best service to our veterans.

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Categories: VA

The Reason Politicians Support Trans-Pacific Partnership

May 29, 2015

Yes, it is what you think. The rich are influential and vocal, and most of them benefit from free trade. So politicians are kowtowing to them even though free trade deals like NAFTA have killed one million jobs and substantially increased the income gap between the rich and everyone else.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, Outsourcing

More Cuts to DoD Civilian Workforce Likely If This Measure Survives the Senate

May 29, 2015

The Senate Armed Services Committee this week voted to keep in place a cut in funding to the Department of Defense Headquarters.

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Categories: DoD, Senate, Outsourcing

All Whistleblowers Need Equal Protections

May 29, 2015

AFGE urges Congress to address gaps in federal whistleblower laws that have failed to protect some VA whistleblowers, including those who were new hires or working under a different set of personnel rules for health care employees.

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Categories: Workers' Rights

Got Questions about the New Locality Pay in 13 Cities? Check out AFGE's FAQs.

May 29, 2015

AFGE has recently secured a locality pay increase for federal employees in 13 cities.

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Categories: Pay

Lawmakers on Workforce Protections Committee Argue against Protecting Workforce

May 22, 2015

Several lawmakers led by Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, were arguing for reduced benefits for federal employees injured on the job.

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Categories: Workers' Rights