AFGE relaunched the Defend Our Jobs web center this week to help employees keep track of Department of Defense spending and authorization bills as they move through Congress.
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The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing Monday, April 13 regarding continued whistleblower retaliation within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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April 19th is the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. The physical wounds of that day have healed and buildings have been rebuilt—but memories of the horrific bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City continue to affect the lives of those who were in the building and their friends and family.
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The 2015 Communications Contest is your opportunity to be recognized for those stories. This contest provides AFGE members with the opportunity to showcase their union activism through engaging articles, photos, graphics, and effective layout and design.
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AFGE joined more than a thousand other labor and environmental activists Wednesday in a rally to stop the Fast Tracking of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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Activists from AFGE Local 1920, AFGE Local 2109, and AFGE District 10 rallied in solidarity at Fort Hood Army Base Wednesday in support of a $15/hour minimum wage and a union for all workers.
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"Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship."
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The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is partnering with Grantham University to offer one of its members a full scholarship to the University.
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Hire federal employees, the cheapest of all the three workforces, pointed out AFGE in a letter to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, whose office will soon consider an authorization bill for the Defense Department.
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As it turns out, this person was born in Maryland, which has one of the highest shares of federal jobs in the country. But Rep. Diane Black doesn’t represent the state she was born in. She represents Tennessee where she moved to after getting an associate’s degree in nursing.
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Members of Congress will return to Washington, D.C. next week to start working on various funding bills after a two-week recess.
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McDonald’s is the latest corporation to raise its minimum wage following a series of protests by workers backed by labor unions.
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At our AFGE Triennial Convention in Orlando this year, a special organizing award will be given to an individual (member or staff) or group (Local, Council or staff team) of individuals.
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Chevron. Exxon Mobil. General Electric. Apple. Microsoft. Pfizer. Merck. Johnson and Johnson. These companies have something in common: they have stashed their profits overseas to avoid paying taxes while waiting for the next tax holiday where they can bring back the profits and get taxed at a much lower rate – usually in a single digit, which is lower than what most Americans pay.
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This should have been the happiest time in Amanda Kincannon’s life.
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