A lot of things have happened since our last national convention in 2015 – a new administration, hiring freezes, anti-union executive orders – just to name a few. But our list of some of our accomplishments below shows that our union is most powerful when we all stand together to protect our rights and democratic values.
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Because of your activism, the Senate has approved a 1.9% pay raise for federal workers next year. This modest pay adjustment would help prevent federal employees from falling further behind next year and help federal agencies recruit and retain the high-caliber workforce that the public expects and deserves.
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Our union exists to protect the merit systems, ensure justice, equality, and workers’ voice – all important factors for our government to serve and protect the American people. We make sure researchers, scientists, doctors, nurses, and other public servants have the tools and resources they need to do their jobs. But this administration is showing zero leadership in helping them do their jobs better.
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Unions are a cornerstone of our democracy and our middle class. Unions are important more than ever in light of an all-out war on the labor movement, whether it’s right-to-work-for-less laws, Janus, or other Supreme Court rulings that helped advance corporate interests.
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Federal employees in Birmingham-Hoover-Talladega, Alabama; Burlington-South Burlington, Vermont; San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, Texas; and Virginia Beach, Virginia will receive a locality pay raise next year to account for large pay gaps with non-federal employers.
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On June 23 last year, President Trump signed into law the Veterans Affairs Accountability Act, promising to help the VA get rid of unethical managers and help veterans get their health care faster. But one year after the bill became law, the law has been a massive failure – as we predicted.
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Labor unions play an important role in securing rights and protections such as health and safety, family and medical leave, overtime, and fair treatment. But the wealthy don’t want workers to come together and negotiate for a better life. An important case pending in the Supreme Court, Janus v. AFSCME, is an example of how these special interests are trying to destroy the labor movement and our democracy.
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Hundreds of AFGE members across the country took to the streets, recruited new members, met their members of Congress, and raised money to fight attacks on federal employees during AFGE’s first National Week of Action April 30-May 4.
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After giving the wealthiest Americans and corporations massive tax cuts that they immediately used to enrich themselves, the Trump administration turned its attention to federal employees, not to give them a tax cut but to cut their pay and retirement.
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The House Veterans Affairs Committee May 8 passed a bill that would pave the way for a wholesale privatization of the VA.
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The AFGE National Executive Council and AFGE activists were on Capitol Hill May 9 to show their support for the rollout of a bill introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Workplace Democracy Act, that would strengthen workers' rights to organize for better wages, affordable healthcare, retirement security, and better working conditions.
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AFGE members at Orlando International Airport relentlessly fought the return of airport security to the pre-9/11 era, and their enormous efforts paid off. The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (GOAA) recently voted to rescind its previous controversial vote to begin the process of contracting out security at the airport.
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Federal employees in six metropolitan areas should begin receiving higher locality pay next year to account for large pay gaps with non-federal employers.
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The teachers’ movement that started in West Virginia is gaining momentum as thousands of teachers in Oklahoma and Kentucky walked off the job and filled their state capitols April 2 to protest cuts in public school funding, pay, and benefits.
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After months of hostility at the bargaining table, Department of Education management told AFGE Council 252 that it was no longer willing to negotiate a new. Management threw out the contract that the council had previously bargained and replaced it with an anti-union directive that strips 3,900 workers we represent of most previously-negotiated rights and protections.
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