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Labor Day Is for Celebrating Achievements, Renewing Commitment to Carry on the Fight

September 06, 2022

Throughout labor history, nothing has been given to us freely without us having to demand and, often, fight for it. That’s why having a union is so important. Our voice as an individual is not as loud as our collective voice. Together, we can achieve the unachievable.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, The Insider

AFGE Honors Disability Pride Month

July 19, 2021

July is Disability Pride Month, and AFGE is proud to show solidarity with the disability community during this month of reflection, visibility, and concrete action.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, The Insider, Women's & Fair Practices

Biden Tells Agencies to Reopen Trump-Inspired Contracts, Cease Anti-Worker Actions

March 08, 2021

OPM directs federal agencies to engage with unions and to reopen and renegotiate Trump-era contracts that have anti-worker provisions.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, The Insider

AFGE Applauds Supreme Court Ruling Affirming Job Protections for LGBTQ+ Workers

June 22, 2020

AFGE hails a landmark Supreme Court ruling that affirms employees cannot be fired for their gender or sexual orientation.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, LGBT, The Insider

Senators Join AFGE in Calling on Appropriators to Protect Workplace Rights, Democracy

December 02, 2019

Forty-three U.S. senators are calling on Senate leadership and appropriators to protect federal employees’ workplace rights as they work to finalize the 2020 financial services and general government funding bill.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, The Insider

AFGE Urges Senate to Prioritize Federal Employee Jobs and Paid Family Leave in FY 2020 NDAA

September 30, 2019

On Sept. 25, Senator Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, led a vote instructing the Senate to include federal employee paid family leave in the final FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, The Insider

10 Priorities for Trump’s New EEOC Chair

May 20, 2019

Now that the Senate has voted to confirm Janet Dhillon as chair of the EEOC, and she has sworn in, our union’s Council 216 representing EEOC employees has issued a list of Top 10 priorities facing the new EEOC chair.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, The Insider

AFGE Condemns Administration’s Policy Targeting Transgender Service Members

April 22, 2019

The Trump administration’s controversial rule barring transgender individuals from serving openly in the military went into effect April 12, reversing a policy the Obama administration had put in place three years earlier.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, The Insider, Women's & Fair Practices

You Asked, We Answered: Health and Safety FAQs

October 09, 2018

As a government employee and union member, there is a lot to learn. Our union has received numerous questions from members and activists on various topics – but two questions kept coming up. Lucky for our members, our Health and Safety Specialist Milly Rodriguez is on hand to answer them.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, Labor, The Insider

Administration Appeals Court Order on Union-Busting Executive Orders

October 01, 2018

We may have won our executive order lawsuit, but the fight isn't over. The administration is appealing the judge's decision, and is actively working to put the union-busting, democracy-busting executive orders back in place.

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Categories: Senate, Congress, Official Time, Workers' Rights, Labor, The Insider, White House, Executive Orders

Members of Congress Pressure Department of Education to End Union Busting

October 01, 2018

After a similar letter from the House of Representatives, three U.S. senators are calling on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to stop denying workplace rights and protections to nearly 4,000 Department of Education employees who are represented by our union.

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Categories: Senate, Congress, Workers' Rights, Labor, The Insider

Administration’s Anti-Union Policies at CDC Jeopardize Public Health

September 24, 2018

In what has become an alarming, growing trend, members of the administration are attempting to bust unions through bad faith negotiations – with Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers becoming the latest targets.

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Categories: HHS, Official Time, Workers' Rights, Labor, The Insider, White House, Contracts, Organizing , Grievance Procedures

Retiree Activists Are on the Move! Get Involved Today!

September 24, 2018

Young people are not the only ones who are joining unions. More and more federal retirees have decided to stay in the fight and keep their union membership into retirement. They know their union is the most effective tool to fight back politicians’ attacks on their retirement and health benefits.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, Member Benefits, Big Enough to Win, Labor, Training, The Insider, Retirees

Doctor, Union Member, Y.O.U.N.G. Coordinator

September 24, 2018

Young people join unions for different reasons. For Janet Constance, it was because she had a bad boss. Janet had been working as a psychologist at the VA hospital in Kansas City, MO, for six years when a new manager took over.

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Categories: VA, Workers' Rights, Big Enough to Win, Member Profile, Veterans, Labor, The Insider

Closure of FLRA Dallas Office Leaves Fed Employee Rights in Jeopardy

September 17, 2018

The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) is a tiny agency tasked with resolving labor-management issues involving more than 2 million federal employees. These issues range from unfair labor practices (ULP) to arbitration appeals to union elections. Federal employee unions go to the FLRA to challenge agencies’ unfair practices or failures to follow their own policies, among other things. But office closures across the country are leaving workers without a place to turn.

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Categories: DOL, Workers' Rights, Labor, Civil Rights, The Insider, Grievance Procedures