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AFGE EPA Council Responds to Report on Management Challenges

June 12, 2015

A recent independent assessment of management challenges facing the Environmental Protection Agency highlights several issues that are especially important to the AFGE Council 238, which represents about 8,500 EPA employees.

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Categories: EPA, Workers' Rights

AFGE Mourns Loss of Local 1945 Member Killed in Afghanistan

June 12, 2015

AFGE is saddened to report that we lost our long-time member and dedicated Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) employee Krissie Davis on Monday when she was killed in an indirect fire attack while working on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.

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Categories: DoD

AFGE Wins Union Election to Represent Coast Guard Employees in California

June 12, 2015

AFGE this week won a union election to represent wage grade and professional employees at theLos Angeles/Long Beach Coast Guard command at Terminal Island (San Pedro), California. The employees voted 10-2 to be represented by AFGE.

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Categories: DHS, Workers' Rights, Big Enough to Win

Is Your Agency Contracting Out Government Jobs?

June 06, 2015

AFGE has updated a new guide to help you spot those problem contracts and more.

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Categories: Budget, Outsourcing

AFGE’s Statement on DHS Airport Covert Test

June 06, 2015

AFGE has issued the following statement regarding news reports on the results of a covert test by DHS investigators.

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Categories: TSA, DHS

15 Reasons Why Federal Employees Need to Earn a $15/Hour Living Wage

June 06, 2015

SeaTac, Seattle, San Francisco, and most recently Los Angeles have adopted a $15 an hour minimum wage. As the Fight for $15 campaign is catching on, few people know that at least 34,000 federal workers, not including non-appropriated fund (NAF) employees, make less than $15 an hour.

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Categories: Pay, Workers' Rights

New Guidance on LGBT Released

June 06, 2015

The Office of Personnel Management, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office of Special Counsel, and the Merit Systems Protection Board have just put out new guidance for agencies and federal employees in the LGBT community.

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Categories: Workers' Rights

Activist of the Week: Meet the AFGE Activist Who Helped His Local Win 8 Awards

June 06, 2015

Francis Nichols III is the life of the party. It’s impossible not to notice him.

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Categories: Washington, D.C., Workers' Rights, Big Enough to Win, Member Profile

Activists Storm U.S. Trade Building Demanding Full Disclosure of Secret Trade Deal

June 06, 2015

Undeterred by a June shower, labor activists from across the country on Tuesday gathered at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. before marching to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), demanding to see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a secret trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 other countries.

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Categories: Senate, Congress, Workers' Rights, Outsourcing

AFGE Demands Accountability Following Cyberattack Targeting 4 Million Employees, Retirees

June 05, 2015

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) informed AFGE Thursday evening that the personal information of all 2.1 million current federal employees and an additional 2 million federal retirees and former federal employees may have been compromised during a Chinese cyberattack.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, Member Benefits

AFGE Urges Senators Not to Privatize Commissaries

June 05, 2015

As the House is debating the 2016 Defense Authorization bill, AFGE is urging senators to support a measure that would strike a provision that would privatize commissaries and cut a crucial earned benefit that has helped military families make ends meet.

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Categories: DoD, Senate, Privatization

Activist of the Week: Meet the AFGE Activist Who Helped His Local Win 8 Awards

June 05, 2015

Francis Nichols III is the life of the party. It’s impossible not to notice him. On a recent bus ride from Hilton Chicago to a local McDonalds where AFL-CIO Next Up Young Worker Summit participants would gather to protest its poverty wages, Francis took to the front of the bus and led fun chants that made a long ride exciting and memorable.

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Categories: Washington, D.C., D.C. Government, Workers' Rights

Building Solidarity with Pride

June 05, 2015

AFGE is proud to be a Rainbow Sponsor of the 40th Celebration of Pride in the Nation’s Capital. As the nation's largest labor union representing federal and D.C. government workers, AFGE uplifts, affirms and protects the workplace rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

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Categories: Washington, D.C., Workers' Rights, Member Benefits

Activists Storm U.S. Trade Building Demanding Full Disclosure of Secret Trade Deal

June 05, 2015

Categories: Washington, D.C., Outsourcing

It’s Time for a $15 Federal Minimum Wage

June 05, 2015

Some wage-grade workers, like commissary employees, are facing pay cuts.Some wage-grade workers, like commissary employees, are facing pay cuts. Kevin L. Robinson/Defense Commissary Agency.

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Categories: Pay, Workers' Rights