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Which Lawmaker Seems Very Interested in Outsourcing Your Job?

April 10, 2015

As it turns out, this person was born in Maryland, which has one of the highest shares of federal jobs in the country. But Rep. Diane Black doesn’t represent the state she was born in. She represents Tennessee where she moved to after getting an associate’s degree in nursing.

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Categories: Outsourcing

Lawmakers to Start Putting Together Funding Bills Next Week

April 10, 2015

Members of Congress will return to Washington, D.C. next week to start working on various funding bills after a two-week recess.

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Categories: Senate, Congress, Budget

How Union Solidarity Raises Minimum Wage for America

April 10, 2015

McDonald’s is the latest corporation to raise its minimum wage following a series of protests by workers backed by labor unions.

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Categories: Pay, Labor

Know a Great Organizer? Nominate Him/Her or the Whole Team!

April 10, 2015

At our AFGE Triennial Convention in Orlando this year, a special organizing award will be given to an individual (member or staff) or group (Local, Council or staff team) of individuals.

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Categories: Convention 2015

Can You Hide Your Wealth Overseas to Avoid Taxes? These Corporations Can and Have Been Doing It for Years

April 10, 2015

Chevron. Exxon Mobil. General Electric. Apple. Microsoft. Pfizer. Merck. Johnson and Johnson. These companies have something in common: they have stashed their profits overseas to avoid paying taxes while waiting for the next tax holiday where they can bring back the profits and get taxed at a much lower rate – usually in a single digit, which is lower than what most Americans pay.

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Categories: Privatization, Labor

TSO Fired for Being Pregnant Wins Reinstatement

April 07, 2015

This should have been the happiest time in Amanda Kincannon’s life.

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Categories: TSA, DHS, Workers' Rights, Member Profile

TSA Officers: Protect Us so We Can Protect You

April 03, 2015

TSA officers at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on Wednesday staged a protest demanding new security measures to protect passengers and employees in airport security screening areas.

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Categories: TSA

AFGE Mourns Passing of former NST Allen Kaplan

April 03, 2015

AFGE mourns the passing of Allen Kaplan who served as AFGE National Secretary Treasurer from 1986 to 1991.

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Categories: AFGE National Departments

VA Caught Red-Handed Wasting Tax Dollars on IT Contract That Could Be Done Cheaper In-house

April 03, 2015

AFGE Local 1745 in Texas demanded that the Department of Veterans Affairs immediately end an illegal contract of information technology work in the Project Management Accountability System Business Office after it became clear from a VA inspector general report that the agency violated both sourcing law and policy and intentionally reduced the number of civilian workers in order to contract out the work.

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Categories: VA, Outsourcing

TSA Officers: Protect Us so We Can Protect You

April 03, 2015

Categories: TSA, DHS, Workers' Rights

Defense Grocery Stores Fired an Expensive Bakery Contractor But Is Looking for a New Expensive Contractor

April 03, 2015

The Defense Department is looking for ways to cut cost, but it appears that the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) is not.

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Categories: DoD, Budget

AFGE Members Blew Whistle at Tomah VA to Protect Patients from Wrongfully Prescribed Drugs

April 03, 2015

The Tomah VA hospital in Wisconsin has been in the news lately for allegedly prescribing high doses of drugs to veterans. But did you know that it was AFGE members who blew the whistle on these practices that may have led to 33 dead veterans?

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Categories: VA, Workers' Rights, Veterans

AFGE Denounces Indiana’s Freedom to Discriminate Law

April 03, 2015

Indiana Governor Mike Pence last week signed into law a bill that allows people and businesses to circumvent state laws on the grounds that they contradict a person’s religious beliefs.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, Labor

Air Safety is About Protecting People, Not Profits

April 02, 2015

After over 18 months of tireless efforts to push back against unnecessary security privatization, AFGE Local 556 members at Orlando Airport have finally seen the fruits of their labor.

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Categories: TSA, DHS, Privatization

Air Safety is About Protecting People, Not Profits

April 02, 2015

AFGE Local 556 members at Orlando Airport have seen the fruits of their labor as the TSA Committee of the Greater Orlando Airport Authority (GOAA) maintained federal security screeners at checkpoints rather than hiring private, for-profit contractors.

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Categories: TSA