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Special Counsel Substantiates Unsafe Working Conditions at USDA Research Center Following AFGE Whistleblower Complaint

June 30, 2025

The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) last week affirmed unsafe working conditions detailed in a whistleblower complaint filed by three AFGE members against USDA’s Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) in Maryland.

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Due to DOGE Cuts, 1 SSA Employee Is Expected to Serve 1,480 Beneficiaries

June 30, 2025

A new analysis on Social Security reflects what AFGE has been saying all along: Staffing cuts will hurt the American people who rely on Social Security.

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Chaos and Corruption Weekly Digest: Week 23

June 30, 2025

Week 23 saw a federal judge blocking Trump’s plan to end collective bargaining for federal workers, chaos at NSF, and Trump withholding congressionally mandated funding for agencies.

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OPM’s New Performance Management Rules Are Illegal, Violate Labor Contracts

June 23, 2025

In another attack against the federal workforce, Trump’s Office of Personnel Management ordered agencies to overhaul federal employee performance appraisal and disciplinary systems in violation of existing labor contracts and decades of past practice.

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Major AFGE Victory: Senate Parliamentarian Drops GOP Plans Gutting Civil Service in Reconciliation Bill

June 23, 2025

President Trump and Senate Republicans were dealt a major blow in their effort to gut the civil service with the Senate parliamentarian dropping anti-civil service provisions from the Senate reconciliation bill due to procedural violations.

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Chaos and Corruption Weekly Digest: Week 22

June 23, 2025

Week 22 saw Trump illegally changing federal employees’ performance management rules, laying off nearly 100 employees at NARA, and shutting down the national LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline.

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AFGE Celebrates Pride Month!

June 23, 2025

Pride Month is celebrated each year in June in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, where trans and queer people fought back against police harassment of community members in New York City.

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Senate GOP’s Big Retaliation Bill Makes Future Feds Pay 14.4% for Workplace Rights or Become At-Will

June 16, 2025

In retaliation against AFGE and other unions for successfully standing up for federal workers in courts, the Trump administration and Senate GOP last week released its version of Trump’s House-passed ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ with several provisions attacking federal employees and their workplace rights.

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Republican Members of House Appropriations Committee Greenlight White House’s Mass Firing of 80,000 VA Employees

June 16, 2025

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Judge Orders OPM to Halt Sharing Americans’ Personal Data with DOGE

June 16, 2025

In a victory for personal privacy, a New York federal district court judge June 9 ordered OPM to temporarily halt disclosures of Americans' personal data to DOGE agents.

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Chaos and Corruption Weekly Digest: Week 21

June 16, 2025

Week 21 saw Trump making new federal employees at-will, gutting NASA and NEH and setting a timeline to dismantle FEMA.

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Special Report: Chaos & Corruption

June 12, 2025

May/June 2025 Government Standard: Check out this special Government Standard about our ongoing fight to protect public servants and our democracy.

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Summary of AFGE Lawsuits Against Trump & How Litigation Works

June 09, 2025

Here's how AFGE is taking on President Trump in the courts.

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White House’s New Hiring, Firing Plans Aim at Creating Subservient Federal Workforce Loyal to Trump, Not Constitution

June 09, 2025

President Trump is bringing back the spoils system in which federal workers are hired and fired based on whether they are loyal to him and willing to implement his policies, many of which are illegal.

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Chaos and Corruption Weekly Digest: Week 20

June 09, 2025

Week 20 saw Trump facing several legal setbacks over his unlawful actions and an appeals court reopening a case that may have sweeping implications for federal workers.

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