2016 was a year of challenges and triumphs. Revisit photos of the moments that made 2016 memorable.
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Early in 2016, TSA workers forced the agency's management to go back to the negotiating table. After months of hard work, TSA officers have voted overwhelmingly to accept the improved contract.
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It always seems impossible until it’s done. After 10 years of fighting to get their employer to do the right thing, AFGE members working at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) finally succeeded.
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Federal employees should be granted excused absences to vote on Election Day if polls are not open at least three hours before or after an employee’s regular work shift, the Office of Personnel Management has said in a new memo.
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As the coal industry goes bankrupt, companies are opting out of their obligations to provide health care benefits to retirees and contribute to their pension fund.
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Private prisons cost taxpayers millions, and put inmates and correctional workers in danger. That's why the Department of Justice decided to shut them down for good.
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TSA officers were fed up with an unreliable pay system that always seemed to move the goalposts. Then they spoke up as one union, and TSA listened.
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Do you pay rent, mortgage, student loan, credit card bills? If so, you need to pay attention to these three groups whose decisions affect your bottom line.
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Some of the most inspirational leaders from the labor movement raised their voices for working people at AFGE's 2016 National Leadership Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
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The Obama administration did the right thing when it made millions of private-sector workers eligible for overtime pay. Now it needs to extend the new rule to public servants.
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In one of the most important court cases for working people in decades, the Supreme Court came to a split ruling, preventing a massive free-rider tax on workers and their unions.
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Here's a quick recap of recent legislative actions that public servants need to know.
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Hundreds of AFGE leaders and activists gathered in D.C. in February. See what happened through photos and video—learn how we’re prepared to keep up the fight all year long:
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From writers at online news site Gawker in Manhattan, to Uber drivers in Seattle, to Volkswagen workers in Tennessee, workers across the country stood up for their right to have a voice at work.
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The Supreme Court could eliminate hundreds of thousands of union fee payers with the stroke of a pen.
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