In our dog-eat-dog world, Americans are working more than ever but earning less than in the 1970s, (when adjusted for inflation)—a true cat-astrophe!
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AFGE District 14 National Vice President Eric Bunn has been elected treasurer of the Metropolitan Washington Central Labor Council, an organization that works with members of the AFL-CIO to create better workplaces for working people in the Washington, D.C. area.
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Budget Expert Thomas Kahn Joins AFGE as Legislative Director.
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In one of the most important court cases for working people in decades, the Supreme Court came to a split ruling, preventing a massive free-rider tax on workers and their unions.
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Rep. Price has a budget plan for (uh, only a couple) of you.
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The Union Plus Mortgage Program, a benefit available to AFGE members, helped one woman and her family leave a sheltered for battered women and fulfill their dreams of owning a home.
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The VA Commission on Care is stacked with private hospital executives that stand to benefit financially from privatizing the VA. Now, Veterans Service Organizations like the American Legion are fighting back.
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AFGE's newly created program for retirees has its first director.
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Attacks to the pay, benefits and jobs of DoD employees are coming from all sides. This group of AFGE activists came to Washington to fight back.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is taking action to heal veterans' unseen wounds and reduce veteran suicides.
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Defense workers are about to get a good new performance system – but only if the Department of Defense doesn't rush it.
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Long before Merrick Garland became President Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, he helped lay the groundwork for the conviction of the Oklahoma City bombing perpetrators.
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The fight for 5.3% took a big leap forward this week as a group of Senators, lead by Brian Schatz of Hawaii, introduced their own measure to give employees a 5.3% catch up.
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It took three years of hard work and advocacy to make pepper spray a reality for correctional workers. Here's the whole story.
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Defense workers are about to get a good new performance system – but only if the Department of Defense doesn't rush it.
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