The fifth episode of AFGE’s new series, The Activist, highlighting our union members who have stepped up to help make a difference in the lives of their colleagues and our government.
Greg Dorsey works as a Technical Expert in Supplemental Security Income at the Social Security Administration (SSA) in Houston, Texas. He is legislative political coordinator for AFGE Local 3184 and has been an AFGE member since 2010.
Greg joined AFGE because he knew the importance of what the union does – it protects the people and keeps the standards for equity when it comes to fairness. Being a unionist also runs in the family as his dad was vice president of International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1429 in Baltimore.
Greg is proud to serve the American people as an SSA employee.
“We help everybody from retirement to disabilities, from premature birth to the elderly giving them their benefits through Medicare and Medicaid services. We are the backbone when it comes to supplemental income,” he said. “We’re helping children that have reached or are at the low advantage point because of medical issues and disability, or if people are retirement age. My office in Houston, we see between 800 to 1,200 people a day, so we see a lot of people.”
Greg first got involved in AFGE when a friend represented him when he had to file an EEO complaint. That set things in place for what he’s doing now.
Listen to Greg talk about how being an AFGE member changed his life.
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