Within one day, a letter showing support for federal civilians working at depots and arsenals across the country garnered 26 elected officials’ signatures – pretty impressive considering competing priorities and a short time frame.
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AFGE is known for our relentlessness in the pursuit of justice, and what happened this week shows our will to provide workplace protections for federal employees even though it might take years.
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In response to the murder of five servicemen in Chattanooga, TN, the American Federation of Government Employees, representing 670,000 federal and D.C. government employees across the U.S. and abroad, issued a statement sharing our condolences to their families.
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AFGE has just won a union election for Registered Nurses at Ft. Lee, Virginia. The unit comprises about 35 Army civilian nurses, who will be represented by Local 1178 led by President Willie Slater.
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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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The Senate this week voted down a proposal by Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana to cut federal employees’ pay by 1% in 2016 and 2017 and use the savings to pay for additional brigades the Army doesn’t want.
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Thanks to the outstanding work of AFGE activists across the country, the Senate, on June 17, voted in favor of an AFGE-backed measure blocking privatization of the commissaries.
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If you are a veteran, military member, military spouse, or Defense or Veterans Affairs employee, you need to pay attention to the Senate 2016 Defense Authorization bill (H.R. 1735) and amendments to the measure.
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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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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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In the latest threat against military grocery stores that have long helped military personnel and their families make ends meet, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted to cut this major source of financial relief and hand over the commissaries to for-profit businesses.
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The Senate Armed Services Committee this week voted to keep in place a cut in funding to the Department of Defense Headquarters.
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AFGE Local 63 in California recently met with Daniel Hazard, field director for Rep. Susan Davis, to discuss pressing issues that hurt Defense Commissary Agency employees and military families. The local reported that Director Hazard was receptive to the local’s concern about the merger of the DeCA and AAFES and the increase in employee contribution from 0.8% to 6.35% to the retirement system.
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The House this week passed an AFGE-backed bill that would allow federal law enforcement officers to access their retirement investments without incurring a penalty.
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In anticipation of an event on Thursday by some lawmakers and think tanks to discuss defense reforms including the size of the Pentagon’s civilian workforce, AFGE sent a letter to members of Congress in both the House and the Senate, reiterating the fact that the Department of Defense civilian workforce is the cheapest among the department’s three workforces – military, contractors, and DoD civilians.
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