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AFGE Condemns House Panel’s Decision to Allow VA to Fire Employees at Will

July 16, 2015

The House Veterans Affairs Committee has only one job: make sure our country’s veterans are taken care of. But on Wednesday it did the opposite. The panel voted to allow retaliation and discrimination against the very people who take care of our veterans. That means VA employees can no longer bring up issues that hurt veterans such as understaffing and mismanagement without the fear of being fired.

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Categories: VA

AFGE Volunteers at Food Pantry Bring Smiles to Hundreds of Families

July 16, 2015

No one in America should go to bed hungry. And so AFGE volunteers braved the summer heat to help distribute food to hundreds of people at a capital area food bank this week.

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Categories: Washington, D.C.

AFGE Joins Moral Monday Rally for Voting Rights in North Carolina

July 16, 2015

AFGE activists from the national office and Local 1738 participated in a Moral Monday march in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to protest the state’s anti-democracy voting law.

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Save Due Process

July 14, 2015

If H.R. 1994 and S. 1082 are passed, every VA worker, including over 100,000 veterans, will be at-will employees without meaningful rights to appeal terminations and other adverse actions resulting from retaliation, discrimination, or anti-veteran hostility.

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The Right Fix for Lasting, Comprehensive Accountability at the VA

July 14, 2015

AFGE lauds legislation introduced by Rep. Mark Takano of California that finally addresses accountability at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in substantive and comprehensive ways. H.R. 2999, the Fair VA Accountability Act, takes meaningful steps to reduce mismanagement, protect whistleblowers from management retaliation, and hold individuals accountable without trampling on workplace and Constitutional rights.

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Categories: VA

AFGE Local Pushes for Pay Raise for Technicians across the Country

July 10, 2015

Thanks to AFGE Local 3354, many GS Program Technicians (PTs) employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) will soon eligible to apply for a Key Program Technician position within the Agency affording them upgrade potential from a GS-7 to GS-8. The upcoming Key PT advertisements for GS technicians partly stemmed from meetings between the local and USDA leaders in Washington, D.C. last year.

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Categories: USDA, Pay

Army Plans to Kill 57,000 Jobs in Two Years

July 10, 2015

The government is supposed to help create jobs and thriving communities, but what the Army is planning to do is the exact opposite. The Army is telling 40,000 troops and 17,000 civilian employees that “I don’t want you for the U.S. Army.” The cuts are planned for 2016 and 2017.

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Categories: DoD

These Federal Employees Will Receive $39.9 Million, Thanks to AFGE

July 10, 2015

Checks are being mailed out to 4,400 State Department employees who won a $39.9 million settlement over an overtime grievance filed by AFGE Local 1534.

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Categories: Washington, D.C.

AFGE Responds to Finding that Additional 21.5 Million People Affected by OPM Breach

July 10, 2015

AFGE issued this statement in response to the disclosure that an additional 21.5 million people had their personal data stolen as a result of intrusions into the Office of Personnel Management’s computer systems.

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Categories: Workers' Rights

NLRB to Rule on USPS/Staple Deal

July 10, 2015

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) next month will rule on whether the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) contract with the office supply chain Staples violates the American Postal Workers Union’s (APWU) collective bargaining agreement.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, Privatization

Bill to Restore Employment Fairness to 10,000 Temp Workers

July 10, 2015

The House this week passed an AFGE-backed bill that would make it easier for temporary seasonal workers at land management agencies to transition to permanent jobs under merit promotions.

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Categories: Pay

AFGE Supports for Bill that provides Lifetime Credit Monitoring for Data Breach Victims

July 10, 2015

AFGE fully supports Senate legislation introduced Thursday that would provide individuals affected by the recent cyber attacks on Office of Personnel Management data systems with free lifetime credit monitoring.

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

Report: Koch-Funded “Concerned Veterans for America” Wants to Dismantle VA, Cut Veterans Benefits

July 10, 2015

When our troops come home, the VA health system keeps our nation’s promise to care for those who have borne the battle. These brave men and women served their country, and providing quality, veteran-focused VA health care and benefits is the least our nation can do to serve them in return. According to a shocking new report issued this week, however, not everyone sees it that way.

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Categories: VA

OPM Confirms 21.5 Million More Feds Had Data Stolen, Including Finger Prints

July 10, 2015

AFGE issued this statement in response to reports that 25 million people had their personal data stolen as a result of intrusions into the Office of Personnel Management’s computer systems.

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Categories: Washington, D.C.

Archuleta Resignation Does Not Resolve OPM’s Cybersecurity Woes

July 10, 2015

“The resignation of OPM Director Katherine Archuleta is not a solution to the damage that has been done to more than 20 million Americans as a result of the massive cybersecurity breaches into OPM’s data systems."

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Categories: Washington, D.C.