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NDAA Provisions Would Restore DoD Collective Bargaining, Retain A-76 Prohibition

June 15, 2026

The House Armed Services Committee approved an amendment to the fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act that would restore collective bargaining rights at the Department of Defense, while also rejecting an amendment that would have lifted the longstanding moratorium on privatizing federal jobs through OMB Circular A-76.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

AFGE DoD Locals Mount Campaign to Counter Illegal Termination of Contracts

May 04, 2026

AFGE locals representing 250,000 Department of Defense workers across the country are mounting an aggressive campaign in response to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s illegal action to terminate most of our collective bargaining agreements.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

AFGE Blasts Secretary Hegseth Move to Terminate AFGE Collective Bargaining Agreements at DOD

April 20, 2026

AFGE expressed outrage after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have issued a memo directing agencies and components to terminate all collective bargaining agreements between the DOD and AFGE.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

Decades of AFGE Advocacy Yields Historic Pay Hike for Anniston Army Depot Workers

March 23, 2026

About 1,500 wage grade employees at Anniston Army Depot received historic pay increases this month after being realigned to a higher paying wage area and following the approval of long-delayed 2024 pay raises.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

Tell Your Senators to Restore Union Rights for DoD Civilians

December 01, 2025

Legislation currently being debated behind closed doors in Congress could restore collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of civilian workers in the Department of Defense.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

House-passed NDAA Restores Union Rights for Defense Civilians; Senate Debate Still Underway

September 15, 2025

The fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act that passed the House Sept. 10 retains a provision that would overturn President Trump’s executive order stripping nearly all Department of Defense civilian employees of their collective bargaining rights.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

U.S. Army Employees in Germany Vote to Join AFGE

May 06, 2024

Federal employees working for the U.S. Army at two locations in Germany have voted to join AFGE, part of a continuing effort to expand AFGE’s representation of federal employees working in Europe.

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Categories: DoD, District 14, The Insider

AFGE’s Election Win in Germany Spurs Interest in Union from American Workers in Europe

January 29, 2024

AFGE’s election win in Germany last month not only made headlines but also attracted interest in the union from American government workers stationed overseas.

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Categories: DoD, District 14, The Insider

Lawmakers, AFGE Members in Quad Cities Push for More Workers Compensation Medical Providers

December 18, 2023

A group of lawmakers in Illinois and Iowa is pressing the Department of Labor to make sure there are enough medical providers who take workers’ compensation cases so federal workers don’t have to travel far for care or go without the treatments they need for on-the-job injuries.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

Fort Eisenhower Employee Reinstated with Back Pay, Compensatory Damages in Discrimination Case

December 18, 2023

The Army at Fort Eisenhower, previously Ft. Gordon, agreed to reinstate an employee to her position and awarded her compensatory damages and back pay following a series of discrimination and wrongful termination complaints.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

DEFCON Training Open to ALL AFGE Members. Register Now!

July 31, 2023

Registration is now underway for the AFGE Defense Conference’s annual training, which will be held the first week of September at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

AFGE Revives Local in This Southern Italian Town as DoD Civilians Renew Interest in Union

July 17, 2023

AFGE is working to revive union representation at a long-established local at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Naples in Italy after members and potential members have expressed renewed interest in the union.

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Categories: DoD, District 14, The Insider

New GAO Report Shows DoD Needs to Hire More Women, Minorities

July 10, 2023

The Department of Defense civilian workforce has lower percentages of women and minorities than the rest of the federal government, according to 10 years of data analyzed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

DoD Identifies 23,000 Employees with Pension Errors

June 12, 2023

The Department of Defense recently began notifying more than 23,000 employees that they have been receiving either an overpayment or underpayment of their salary due to calculation errors in their pension contributions.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider

Employees at Rock Island Arsenal Protest Illegal Contract

April 17, 2023

Management and employees at Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois have not reached an agreement on their new contract, but management is planning to impose its own terms on the workers starting April 23. Employees, which negotiated in good faith with management for over a year only to be ignored. are not having any of it.

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Categories: DoD, The Insider