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86 Years of Fighting for Workers

August 06, 2018

Throughout our history, we have been champions of equality and justice in the workplace. Our government’s mission is to make America work for everyone, and 86 years after our founding, AFGE is proud to represent those who make America move forward.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, The Insider

Massive Protests in the Streets, Congress, Court Against Illegal Executive Orders

July 30, 2018

Thousands of AFGE members, more than 100 union presidents, members of Congress, and union members from unions throughout the country gathered to wear red for feds and stand up to the illegal executive orders targeting federal employees.

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Categories: Workers' Rights, Labor, The Insider, National Event, Executive Orders

FLRA Says Education Department Engaged in Union Busting

July 30, 2018

In the first victory against the Trump administration’s efforts to purge your union and your rights in the workplace, our union prevailed in an unfair labor practice investigation against the Department of Education, which unilaterally imposed its own illegal edict on 3,900 federal employees.

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Categories: The Insider, Contracts

VIDEO: We Are America's Workforce!

July 30, 2018

From putting the first man on the moon to ensuring your food is safe to eat, federal employees, like you, make profound differences in our lives every day. Your union is proud to represent these fine men and women, and help them do their jobs better serving the American people. That’s why we’re launching the America’s Workforce campaign – to tell our stories and show the country the important work we do!

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Categories: The Insider

Apply Now for the 2019 Union Plus Scholarship!

July 30, 2018

Over the past 27 years, more than $4.3 million have been awarded to students of over 2,900 union families. Start your application today at www.unionplus.org/scholarship.

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Categories: Member Benefits, The Insider

Raising Our Voices In Court, In the Streets

July 23, 2018

On #RedforFeds Day, July 25, our union and members across the country are taking the administration to court and will be in the streets to protest his union-busting, democracy-busting executive orders.

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Categories: Official Time, Workers' Rights, The Insider, National Event, Executive Orders

VA Begins Attack on our Union, Due Process

July 23, 2018

The Department of Veterans Affairs has begun implementing the administration's executive order purging unions and gutting your rights to fight injustice in the workplace.

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Categories: VA, Official Time, Workers' Rights, Veterans, Labor, The Insider, Contracts, Organizing

House Panel Votes to Gut Due Process

July 23, 2018

Without due process, we cannot have a democratic system. Only in a dictatorship where citizens are not protected by a system of due process and could be wrongfully punished. Unfortunately, some politicians are taking our country in that direction.

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Categories: Congress, Official Time, Workers' Rights, The Insider, Contracts, Organizing

Happy 60th Birthday, NASA!

July 23, 2018

For 60 years, NASA’s mission to further knowledge of our home planet and the search for life on other worlds is a source of pride for us all. From Apollo 13’s journey to the Moon to Pioneer 10’s flight to Jupiter, NASA employees’ expertise, passion, and dedication have helped us reach the stars. For them, the sky is literally not the limit.

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Categories: The Insider

SSA Management Launches All-Out Attack on Our Union, Employees

July 16, 2018

In yet another example of an irresponsible, undemocratic, unprecedented attempt to wipe out labor unions from the United States, the Trump administration has ordered federal agencies across the country to begin implementing the three controversial executive orders to obstruct our work fighting discrimination, retaliation, and injustices in the federal workplace.

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Categories: SSA, Official Time, Workers' Rights, Social Security, The Insider, Contracts, Organizing , Executive Orders

Union Busting Is a Threat to Our Democracy

July 16, 2018

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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Categories: SSA, Official Time, Pay, Workers' Rights, Labor, Civil Rights, The Insider, Contracts, Organizing , Executive Orders

132 Lawmakers Join Opposition to Union-Busting Executive Orders

July 16, 2018

As the administration works to purge our union from the workplace, 132 members of Congress join us in calling for a stop to the union-busting Executive Orders.

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Categories: Washington, D.C., Senate, Congress, Official Time, Workers' Rights, The Insider

Want a Raise? 13 Reasons Your Co-workers Should Join Our Union

July 16, 2018

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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Categories: Official Time, Pay, Workers' Rights, Benefits, Member Benefits, The Insider, Contracts, Organizing

Happy 88th Birthday, VA!

July 16, 2018

Since its creation in 1930, the VA has been a world-class organization, providing health care and life-changing benefits to millions of veterans across the country. The VA is also home to medical breakthroughs, inventions, and Nobel Prize laureates. VA’s tremendous research and partnerships with academic institutions have far-reaching impact and have transformed the world of medicine. This kind of success is due in no small part to dedicated VA employees – 1 in 3 are veterans themselves.

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Categories: VA, Workers' Rights, Benefits, Veterans, Labor, The Insider

Lawmakers File Legal Brief Supporting AFGE Lawsuit Against Trump

July 09, 2018

A bipartisan group of current and former lawmakers have filed an amicus brief in support of lawsuits filed by AFGE and other federal unions challenging President Trump’s anti-worker executive orders.

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