Senators Seek to Eliminate IRS Union
August 12, 2015
The war on federal employees and their unions marches on as elected officials in the Senate seek to make the IRS an independent agency and get rid of its union.
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Senate Passes Fast Track BillNew Page
June 26, 2015
Sixty senators – the bare minimum needed – voted to give the administration authority to negotiate the horrendous Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement with 11 other nations without congressional amendments. Thirty eight senators voted against it. The so-called Fast Track bill passed the House last week.
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Senate Rejects 1% Pay Cut for Federal Employees
June 19, 2015
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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AFGE Activists Stop Commissary Privatization in Its TracksNew Page
June 19, 2015
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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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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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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Congress Is Threatening Your Union Rights. Tell Them To Cut It Out.
June 03, 2015
Congress is mounting an attack on collective bargaining and official time. Again.
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Commissaries Facing New Threat: Privatization
May 29, 2015
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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More Cuts to DoD Civilian Workforce Likely If This Measure Survives the Senate
May 29, 2015
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 Told Lawmakers Point Blank that Pay and Retirement Cuts Need to End
May 22, 2015
What should a 21st century civil service look like? Not what’s happening to the federal workforce right now: pay cuts, furloughs, shutdowns, testified AFGE President J. David Cox Sr. before a Senate subcommittee on regulatory affairs and federal management on 21st Century Ideas for the 20th Century Federal Civil Service.
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AFGE – 1, Grain Industry – 0
May 22, 2015
The Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday approved by voice vote a measure to reauthorize the U.S. Grain Standards Act, rejecting the grain industry’s attempt to take over control of the United States’ grain inspection.
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House-Senate Budget Negotiators Discussed Your Pay Cut. This Is What They Came Up with
May 08, 2015
The House and Senate Budget Committees completed their conference of the FY 2016 non-binding budget blueprint at the end of April. Although the language is somewhat vague, the conference report appears to assume the following about federal employees. For some, this could be up to a 12% pay cut.
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TPP Is a Bad Deal for Workers – Including Government Employees
April 24, 2015
As the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees will soon vote to allow the administration to fast track a bad international trade deal being negotiated behind closed doors, AFGE activists on Monday joined hundreds of activists from other organizations to make it clear that we will not let this happen without a fight.
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Stop The TPP
April 24, 2015
Watching the discussion around the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) gives President Cox a nasty sense of déjà vu.
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NST Hudson Delivers Opening Remarks at Inaugural Black Men & Boys Day on Capitol Hill Advocacy Training
April 24, 2015
AFGE National Secretary Treasurer Eugene Hudson Jr. on Wednesday spoke at the inaugural Black Men & Boys Day on Capitol Hill advocacy training aimed at encouraging black men and boys to engage in legislative advocacy on issues that impact their communities.
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