AFGE is asking OPM to live up to its claim as the model agency in the federal government by continuing the telework program established during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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OPM Director Kiran Ahuja touted telework as an important tool for agencies to use to carry out their missions during these tough times.
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The federal government’s important human resources agency will finally have a director after going without one for more than a year.
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The Trump administration continues to quietly break up the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) with a new office being stood up within OPM to take over policy making.
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OPM told its employees the agency will no longer pursue the planned merger with the General Services Administration.
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Corporate interests are pushing policy makers to abolish OPM and contract out the agency’s important personnel functions.
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The Trump administration is working behind the scenes to move forward with its plan to merge OPM with the GSA.
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Today, members of Congress sent a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA) demanding the GSA cease internal plans and operations to aid the Trump Administration’s plan to abolish the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and move its functions to GSA.
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Before the holidays, Congress passed two 2020 government funding packages that included all appropriations bills and several measures AFGE strongly supported.
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Our hard work paid off in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) where we made major inroads on many fronts that are not limited to just the Department of Defense.
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After a series of protests, phone calls, and Capitol Hill visits, our union is happy to announce that we have successfully blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and politicizing the agency’s human resources policy functions.
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From hiring freezes to government shutdowns, there is no shortage of bad policies coming from the Trump White House. Now the administration is rolling out some major anti-worker changes to personnel policies as part of its public service deconstruction plan.
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The Office of Personnel Management took another step toward dismantling due process rights for federal employees.
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The House on July 12 passed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act with several provisions that affect not only Defense employees but all federal employees governmentwide.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit largely sided with our union when it ruled that federal employees have standing to sue the government over its failure to protect employees’ personal data which led to one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history.
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