America’s national parks are icons of natural beauty and history, but the people who keep them running often lack a unified voice on the job. AFGE is launching a nationwide campaign to bring together park rangers, interpreters, maintenance crews, guides, and every National Park Service (NPS) worker in one powerful union family.
AFGE already represents thousands of NPS employees across the country. In the Northeast Region alone, our dedicated NPS Council negotiates strong union contracts for over 2,000 employees in seven states.
Together, we keep America’s parks beautiful and our jobs strong.
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AFGE is working to expand those same rights, protections, and real workplace voice to NPS employees in every region.
Are you ready to make your park a better place to work?
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AFGE uses a secure digital platform called Engage to collect “Showing of Interest” cards from NPS employees. By signing up, you’ll join forces with fellow park workers nationwide to strengthen our collective voice and advance our organizing campaign.
Why Organize with AFGE?
- Have a Real Voice: Participate in decisions about staffing, schedules, safety, and more through collective bargaining.
- Protect Your Rights: Ensure fair evaluations, transparent promotions, and due-process job protections.
- Build Collective Power: Join 700,000+ federal employees standing strong in Congress and fighting privatization threats.
- Support Stronger Parks: When workers thrive, parks stay welcoming, well-staffed, and preserved for generations.
Organize with AFGE. Protect your profession. Help write the next chapter for the National Park Service.
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Find Out Why NPS Workers Joined AFGE
Mark Cochran, AFGE Council 270 President
I joined AFGE as a seasonal because I wanted to contribute to those who support and fight for the rights of dedicated and hard-working civil servants who spend their careers preserving and protecting America's cultural, historical, and natural resources. Now, as a Union leader, I get to utilize my experience as a Union member to advocate for my colleagues when they need it the most.
David Fitzpatrick, AFGE Council 270 Secretary-Treasurer
My government career started with The Department of Veterans Affairs I transferred to the National Park Service in 1999.
Working in the maintenance division at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. I was elected to serve as AFGE Local 2058 President. Additionally, I am one of the founding members of the first AFGE NPS Council. Today I serve as the elected Secretary Treasure for the Council.
Council 270 represents over two thousand NPS employees in the Northeast Region covering seven states. AFGE is my union family. Our members are my sisters and brothers. Our union assists its members in all facets concerning working conditions at The National Park Service.
AFGE has many levels of representation. Local, District, Council and our National Office.
AFGE is always standing side by side with our members.
I am proud to call myself a card-carrying Member of the Largest Federal Employee Union in the United States.
