View the Latest News from D5 Y.O.U.N.G.Representing more than 109,000 workers, District 5 is the largest District at AFGE. We are veterans, engineers, nurses, doctors, lawyers, mechanics, teachers, janitors, and all share one trait: Commitment to the labor movement.
At a hearing on government oversight on March 9, several members of Congress, many of whom are freshmen representatives, defended federal agencies’ use of telework as an effective, valuable tool which, in many instances, has been life-changing for employees who are military spouses or people with disabilities.
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Ground rules are important during contract negotiations as they keep things running smoothly. Failing to follow the ground rules could be damaging to the violating party, as is the case at the Small Business Administration (SBA) in Washington, DC.
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March is Women’s History Month, and we’re voicing our support for a joint resolution introduced by Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., that would enshrine legal gender equality for women and men in our constitution.
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