Federal worksites struggle to recruit and retain workers due to salaries that don't compete with surrounding employers.
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Medical services and benefits provided to female veterans at VA facilities nationwide must meet their unique needs and circumstances.
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This Veterans Day we express our deep gratitude to those who have bravely served our country. Many of our members are veterans and we are honored to share a few of their stories below.
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This is the fourth segment of AFGE’s 5-part series: The Secret Memo: Inside Trump’s Plan to Destroy Unions.
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The Environmental Protection Agency violated federal labor law by failing to bargain in good faith with AFGE.
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AFGE firefighters and law enforcement officers gathered in the nation’s capital the week of Oct. 21 for joint training exercises.
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A story was published in Bloomberg News earlier this week that includes statements by several former AFGE staff and officers alleging misconduct by National President Cox. AFGE respects all of its employees and takes the allegations that have appeared in the press very seriously. These allegations, if true, are abhorrent to all of us and contrary to AFGE’s mission and values.
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This is the third segment of AFGE’s 5-part series: The Secret Memo: Inside Trump’s Plan to Destroy Unions.
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AFGE’s total E-Dues membership surpassed the 10,000 enrollee milestone for the first time in October, thanks to locals’ concerted efforts to protect our union’s financial resources by switching members to AFGE-run dues deduction system.
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More than 40 U.S. Senators are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to return to the bargaining table.
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Employees in the Michigan Air National Guard have voted for AFGE to become their exclusive labor representative.
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In part two of our five part series on a secret White House labor strategy memo, we reveal the Trump administration’s secret plan, laid out in black and white, to “end collective bargaining” in the federal sector, with special emphasis on DOD, VA, and TSA.
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Congressman Elijah Cummings of Maryland, who passed away Oct. 17, was an American hero who embraced his calling to public service and stood as a solid backstop against the relentless attacks on federal employees’ union rights, civil service protections, and job security.
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National Secretary-Treasurer Everett Kelley was honored with AFGE’s 2019 Living Legend Award for his decades of leadership and service to the labor movement.
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The Trump administration is using the traditionally independent Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) to gut federal employees’ workplace rights and purge their unions. One of the administration’s most recent actions involves pushing the authority to issue a “general statement of policy or guidance” to apply the Supreme Court’s Janus ruling to the federal sector.
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