AFGE Ranks 1st As Fastest Growing Large Union in U.S.
April 15, 2024
The numbers are in. AFGE grew by 5.5% in 2023, making our union the fastest growing large union in the U.S.
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The Alabama AFL-CIO has honored AFGE National President Everett Kelley with its prestigious Labor Person of the Year Award.
At the award ceremony, Kelley was introduced as the recipient of the award for “his history of taking on the most corrupt administration in history and winning over and over and over again” -- in reference to the Trump administration.
As a native of Goodwater, Alabama, and proud son of the Alabama labor movement, Kelley said this award was personal and special.
“To receive this award, in this place, at this time, I am so profoundly honored. So profoundly blessed,” he said during his acceptance speech. “I learned everything I know right here in the state of Alabama. It was in Alabama that I learned about right and wrong, justice and injustice. It was in Alabama that I learned the power of the union. Alabama is where I learned that there were ways to fight injustice – constructive ways, not destructive ways.”
Kelley said that AFGE members’ courage, wisdom, and vision inspire him every day, and he was honored to be able to join in solidarity and exercise our collective power.
Kelley served as the union’s national secretary-treasurer before assuming the presidency in Feb. 2020. He was elected president during AFGE’s convention in June this year.
The numbers are in. AFGE grew by 5.5% in 2023, making our union the fastest growing large union in the U.S.
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AFGE and the Defense Health Agency (DHA) have reached an interim master labor agreement that will improve working conditions for 38,000 bargaining unit employees AFGE represents.
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Due to chronic staffing and attrition issues, the Social Security Administration (SSA) recently announced it will be closing a field office in Southeast Cleveland, Ohio, a community that is 94% Black.
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