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Communications Contest

April 17, 2015

The 2015 Communications Contest is your opportunity to be recognized for those stories. This contest provides AFGE members with the opportunity to showcase their union activism through engaging articles, photos, graphics, and effective layout and design.

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Categories: Convention 2015, AFGE National Departments

AFGE Rallies to Stop the Fast Track on the TPP

April 17, 2015

AFGE joined more than a thousand other labor and environmental activists Wednesday in a rally to stop the Fast Tracking of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).

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Categories: Senate, Congress, Outsourcing , Labor

AFGE Activists in Texas Join the Nationwide Fight for 15 Movement

April 17, 2015

Activists from AFGE Local 1920, AFGE Local 2109, and AFGE District 10 rallied in solidarity at Fort Hood Army Base Wednesday in support of a $15/hour minimum wage and a union for all workers.

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Categories: Pay, Labor

AFGE Celebrates A. Philip Randolph Day

April 15, 2015

"Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship."

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Categories: Workers' Rights, Labor

Grantham University Scholarship

April 14, 2015

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is partnering with Grantham University to offer one of its members a full scholarship to the University.

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Categories: Member Benefits

What Is the Quickest Way to Reduce DoD’s Personnel Cost?

April 10, 2015

Hire federal employees, the cheapest of all the three workforces, pointed out AFGE in a letter to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, whose office will soon consider an authorization bill for the Defense Department.

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Categories: DoD, Budget

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