Thanks to the thousands of calls AFGE members made to Congress, the House of Representatives on June 26 approved a 3.1% raise for federal employees next year, rejecting President Trump’s proposed pay freeze.
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AFGE members came together to demand a safe workplace, and their efforts paid off. Employees were informed that the General Services Administration (GSA) will cease operating at the contaminated Goodfellow Complex in St. Louis, Mo., and employees will be moved to a new location.
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Our union on June 25 filed an unfair labor practice charge against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for declaring they would impose new anti-worker management directives on nearly 9,000 EPA employees.
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Office of Personnel Management (OPM) employees called out their acting director for being evasive and flip-flopping on the administration’s plan to dismantle OPM and merge it with the General Services Administration (GSA).
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Members of AFGE, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), other unions, and allies are taking to the streets June 25 to protest the Trump administration’s threat to furlough or lay off up to 150 Office of Personnel Management (OPM) employees if Congress won’t let it dismantle OPM.
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A new report reveals how the Trump administration is pushing the outsourcing of federal jobs to unaccountable private temp agencies, raising new concerns about accountability and quality of work especially in military and veterans’ privatized health care.
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AFGE blasted the new acting director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for pressuring asylum officers to misapply immigration laws and politicizing the process.
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An AFGE local representing correctional officers at Federal Correctional Institution Mendota in California hosted a congressional tour of the facility June 17 to highlight the prison’s dangerous conditions after their repeated efforts to get Bureau of Prisons (BOP) management to address the issues fell on deaf ears.
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Thanks to the hard work of our AFGE members and lobbying team, we are one step closer to a pay raise next year. The House Appropriations Committee on June 11 approved a 3.1% raise for federal employees in 2020, following in the footstep of a subcommittee which approved the raise the week before.
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A bipartisan coalition of 128 members of Congress is warning the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs that veterans could suffer if the agency succeeds in gutting the union contract covering 260,000 employees represented by AFGE.
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The Trump administration’s efforts to undermine scientific work has led scientists, researchers, and other employees at two research agencies at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take action in defiance of the agency’s relocation plan.
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Our country’s history is marred by attacks against union members and all working people -- and those attacks continue today. But union people have always stood up and fought back.
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Our country’s history is marred by attacks against union members and all working people -- and those attacks continue today. But union people have always stood up and fought back.
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Thanks to the hard work of our union and members, the House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee voted to give federal employees a 3.1% pay raise next year, rejecting the proposal to freeze it.
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On June 5, AFGE VA members across the country stood together and received tremendous support from veterans and allies. The 68 rallies and events held by AFGE and VA employees nationwide shows the strength and solidarity of we have.
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