Union Plus recently awarded $150,000 in scholarships to 106 students representing 31 unions, including seven winners representing AFGE.
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Hundreds of athletes gathered in Cincinnati, Ohio, earlier this month to compete in the world’s largest wheelchair games, the 37th annual National Veterans Wheelchair Games (NVWG). AFGE is proud to take part in the program for the first time this year.
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AFGE first National LEAD Training Conference brings 200 leaders and activists together and focuses on turning hardworking players into coaches. Attendees share their thoughts on this new training initiative.
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In a rush to fund tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations, politicians are coming up with different ways to find the money. One of them is to eliminate pensions for new federal employees and cut pensions for current ones.
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The only national labs dedicated to fossil energy research, which ensures our fossil fuels are used in a responsible, safe, and effective way, are facing closure and deep budget cuts.
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Here are 5 bills that would open the floodgate of VA privatization and take away resources from the VA.
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The VA hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas has been severely understaffed for years, and management did little to improve the situation. To keep their patients safe, their nurses took to the streets to speak up.
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Thanks to AFGE local activists who have reached out to their members of Congress, 9 Republicans and 100 Democrats are now saying they're rejecting President Trump’s budget proposals targeting federal employees’ retirement benefits.
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AFGE Local 3911 will be holding a video submission contest for people to tell us why they love the Environmental Protection Agency.
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For veterans spending the final years of their lives at the Miles City nursing home, this is their home. But for some VA administrators, this nursing home is just a concrete structure that could be disposed of anytime.
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Fourth of July is the most important day in American history. Many rights and freedoms we enjoy today were obtained because generations before us had the foresight to fight and preserve them for future generations. Here are four freedoms we are thankful for this 4th of July.
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The Department of Homeland Security is one of the worst places to work in the federal government. Here's what members of Congress are doing about it.
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AFGE recently held its first veterans recognition event by honoring four veterans who also are outstanding union members.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s mission is “to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all.” But looking at the Trump administration’s budget proposal for 2018, the department is no longer interested in doing all that. And HUD employees are not taking it laying down.
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There’s a reason there are three branches of government – to create a check and balance system in which no one branch of our government could become too powerful. Our founding fathers had several goals, but the most important of all was to avoid tyranny and defend democracy. This concept is central to the creation of labor unions. Unions provide checks and balances in the workplace against bad management and an abuse of power.
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