AFGE placed a full-page ad in Politico this week, calling on the Office of Personnel Management to detail the scope of the massive data breach and provide more assistance to those affected.
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You’re in luck. AFGE participated in the Pride Parade in the nation’s capital for the first time and we got some great footage from the parade that took place on Saturday, June 13.
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Francis Nichols III is the life of the party. It’s impossible not to notice him.
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Francis Nichols III is the life of the party. It’s impossible not to notice him.
On a recent bus ride from Hilton Chicago to a local McDonalds where AFL-CIO Next Up Young Worker Summit participants would gather to protest its poverty wages, Francis took to the front of the bus and led fun chants that made a long ride exciting and memorable.
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AFGE is proud to be a Rainbow Sponsor of the 40th Celebration of Pride in the Nation’s Capital. As the nation's largest labor union representing federal and D.C. government workers, AFGE uplifts, affirms and protects the workplace rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
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Undeterred by a June shower, labor activists from across the country on Tuesday gathered at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. before marching to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), demanding to see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a secret trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 other countries.
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The public, AFGE members, and Social Security Administration (SSA) employees received good news in the $1.1 trillion ‘CRomnibus’ package that keeps the government running through September 2015.
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AFGE activists braved the cold to stand in solidarity with postal workers in their attempt to roll back a plan to dismantle the U.S. Postal Service.
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Thanks to AFGE District 14 and Local 2978, the federal government has restored funding to a program that helps reduce the District’s infant mortality rate.
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As a women’s coordinator for AFGE Local 383, Audrey Townsend serves as a spokesperson for all of the female District of Columbia government employees who aren’t receiving equal pay for equal work.
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American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr. today praised the White House for a memorandum intended to expand the use of workplace flexibilities at federal agencies.
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AFGE president says focus on job creation, wage equality puts America on better path to economic recovery.
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The House and the Senate this week approved the 2014 catch-all spending bill that provides funding for federal agencies until Sept. 30. The $1.1 trillion bill fleshes out the Murray-Ryan budget deal agreed on last month. Read five provisions worth noting.
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