Our very own National Secretary-Treasurer Everett Kelley has been awarded the Roving Ambassador for Peace Prize from the World Peace Prize Awarding Council.
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The House on July 12 passed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act with several provisions that affect not only Defense employees but all federal employees governmentwide.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit largely sided with our union when it ruled that federal employees have standing to sue the government over its failure to protect employees’ personal data which led to one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history.
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AFGE filed an unfair labor practice charge against the National Park Service (NPS) for declaring they would impose anti-worker management directives on NPS employees nationwide.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service (ERS) could expect most of its 200 employees to decline relocation, raising concerns about brain drain and the agency’s ability to fulfill its mission and serve the American people
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A federal arbitrator has ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to remove an online listing of major disciplinary actions taken against VA employees.
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Thanks to the thousands of calls AFGE members made to Congress, the House of Representatives on June 26 approved a 3.1% raise for federal employees next year, rejecting President Trump’s proposed pay freeze.
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AFGE members came together to demand a safe workplace, and their efforts paid off. Employees were informed that the General Services Administration (GSA) will cease operating at the contaminated Goodfellow Complex in St. Louis, Mo., and employees will be moved to a new location.
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Our union on June 25 filed an unfair labor practice charge against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for declaring they would impose new anti-worker management directives on nearly 9,000 EPA employees.
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Office of Personnel Management (OPM) employees called out their acting director for being evasive and flip-flopping on the administration’s plan to dismantle OPM and merge it with the General Services Administration (GSA).
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Members of AFGE, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), other unions, and allies are taking to the streets June 25 to protest the Trump administration’s threat to furlough or lay off up to 150 Office of Personnel Management (OPM) employees if Congress won’t let it dismantle OPM.
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A new report reveals how the Trump administration is pushing the outsourcing of federal jobs to unaccountable private temp agencies, raising new concerns about accountability and quality of work especially in military and veterans’ privatized health care.
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AFGE blasted the new acting director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for pressuring asylum officers to misapply immigration laws and politicizing the process.
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An AFGE local representing correctional officers at Federal Correctional Institution Mendota in California hosted a congressional tour of the facility June 17 to highlight the prison’s dangerous conditions after their repeated efforts to get Bureau of Prisons (BOP) management to address the issues fell on deaf ears.
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Thanks to the hard work of our AFGE members and lobbying team, we are one step closer to a pay raise next year. The House Appropriations Committee on June 11 approved a 3.1% raise for federal employees in 2020, following in the footstep of a subcommittee which approved the raise the week before.
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