REBATES FOR NEW MEMBER & RECRUITER
October 19th, 2024 | Posted by in Benefits | Did you know? | JOIN AFGE | REBATES | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)NEW Member REBATE $100.00
October 17th, 2024 | Posted by in Did you know? | JOIN AFGE | Local 1395 | News | REBATES | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)DO NOT OPEN/READ ON AGENCY EQUIPMENT
October 17th, 2024 | Posted by in ELECTIONS | News | Political - (0 Comments)Project 2025 is a blueprint for the hostile takeover of the federal government under an anti-union presidential administration. Everything from our jobs and union rights to the very existence of our agencies and our union are on the line.
Authored by the ultra-conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, much of what is included in the 922-page document has to do with recommendations for enormous changes to the terms of federal employment, such as eliminating the GS and WG pay systems, making huge changes to the retirement system by cutting federal employee pensions and increasing the Social Security age, reinstating discriminatory hiring practices, making it almost impossible to reverse disciplinary actions and more.
Project 2025 threatens the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of federal employees and the unions that represent them by recommending budget cuts to shrink the government, privatize portions of the government and convert hundreds of thousands of jobs to Schedule F, which demands loyalty to the president, not the Constitution. It also recommends ordering agencies to reopen existing collective bargaining agreements to attain the strongest management rights and to decertify unions at DOD and DHS.
AFGE needs all hands-on deck to stop Project 2025 because if it succeeds, AFGE will no longer exist.
Share These Resources With Your Colleagues:
- We need your help! Join our fight to stop Project 2025!
- Download AFGE Project 2025 Flyer
- Project 2025 and Unions
- Exposing Project 2025’s Pro-Corruption & Anti-Democracy Agenda
AFGE in the News
- The Bradcast: Trump’s Project 2025 is ‘The Final Dagger in the Heart of the Civil Service
- Virginia Dogwood: Project 2025 threatens thousands of Virginia workers
- Associated Press: Federal workers around nation’s capital worry over Trump’s plans to send some of them elsewhere
- America’s Workforce Radio: Federal jobs would be eliminated if Project 2025 becomes a reality
- Trump’s second-term agenda plans a purge of the federal workforce
- What Trump 2.0 could mean for the environment
- Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans
- ‘Everything is on the line’: federal union rallies for 2024
- Why scientists fear a second Trump term, and what they are doing about it
- What to Know about Project 2025’s Dangers to Science
- Trump may disavow ‘Project 2025’ but his proposed job cuts to federal workers are right out of the playbook
- Trump loyalists plan to name and shame ‘blacklist’ of federal workers
- Here’s Team Trump’s terrifying plan to dismantle the government
- MAGA operative compiling list of “anti-Trump” federal workers, setting stage for Project 2025 purge
- John Oliver on a second Trump term: ‘Really does promise to be far, far worse’
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2025 COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT (COLA)
October 15th, 2024 | Posted by in Benefits | COLA | News | Political - (0 Comments)Most Feds to Receive Diet COLA – Again – in 2025
October 15, 2024
The 2025 cost of living adjustment (COLA) was announced last week, and most federal workers will again receive a reduced COLA due to a flawed rule in the current law.
For 2025, Social Security beneficiaries and Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) retirees are expected to receive a 2.5% COLA, while Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) retirees, those hired in 1984 or later, will only get a 2% increase.
Under the current law, the COLAs for Social Security, CSRS, and FERS are all calculated based on the rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). If CPI is 2% or less, the FERS COLA is the same as the CSRS and Social Security COLA. But if the CPI is between 2.01% and 3%, the FERS COLA is 2%. If the CPI is greater than 3%, then the COLA for FERS is 1% less than the CSRS COLA.
What does that mean for a FERS retiree? It means they will lose $128 a year just for 2025, assuming the same average pension. But for those who retired four years ago with the same average pension, their pension would have lost more than $1,000 to rising costs because the losses are compounded.
This unfair penalty places FERS retirees further away from keeping pace with the cost of living.
That’s why AFGE supports the Equal COLA Act (S. 3194 introduced by Sen. Alex Padilla and H.R. 866 introduced by Rep. Gerry Connolly) which would eliminate this unfair penalty for FERS Retirees. The legislation would also eliminate the arbitrary pension cost of living reduction federal employees face in high inflation years.
“Our nation’s public servants shouldn’t see their hard-earned retirement benefits eroded by a COLA set at the start to be arbitrarily lower the real inflation rate,” said AFGE Legislative Director Julie Tippens.
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal emp
ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE?
October 15th, 2024 | Posted by in Did you know? | ELECTIONS | Political | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)Dear AFGE Activist, We’re three weeks away from Election Day!Now is the time to make sure you’re ready to cast your vote this November and connect with your friends, family, union siblings and neighbors to ensure they are prepared to participate in the democratic process. Knowing your status is an important step in making your voice heard in local and national elections. You can find more information about your state’s voting laws and deadlines through Ballot Ready. And don’t forget, early voting has already started in some states. Click here to find the early voting schedule in your state. Let’s make sure we’re well prepared this election cycle to cast our votes! In Solidarity, AFGE |
AFGE Day of Action!
October 8th, 2024 | Posted by in ELECTIONS | Local 1395 | Political | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)AFGE Election Results 2024
October 7th, 2024 | Posted by in ELECTIONS | News | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)Convention & Caucus Elections
National Election Results
National President: Everett Kelley
National Secretary Treasurer: Eric Bunn Sr
NVP for Women & Fair Practices: Kendrick Roberson
AFGE Council 109 Election Results
President: Beverly Parks
Executive Vice President: Cheryl Bellamy-Bonner
First Vice President: Cynthia Marshall Johns
Second Vice President: Yvette Wilson
Treasurer: Bruce Friedman
Secretary: Regane Nicholson
AFGE Council 215 Election Results
President: Ricard Couture
Executive Vice President April Lott
Treasurer: Brandon Epps
Secretary: Gregory Senden
AFGE Council 220 Election Results
President: Jessica LaPointe
Executive Vice President: Angela Digeronimo
1st Vice President: Edwin Osorio
2nd Vice President: Amad Ali
3rd Vice President: Mark Rogers
Teleservice Center Vice President: Shonda Johnson
Secretary: Monique Buchanan
Treasurer: Jennifer Kirkham
Things You Should Know!
October 5th, 2024 | Posted by in Did you know? | JOIN AFGE | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)Coming Soon
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Shutdown Agreement updated
October 24th, 2023 | Posted by in KNOW YOUR CONTRACT | Settlements | Shutdown - (0 Comments)In just four weeks we are facing another potential government shutdown. AFGE/SSA have updated the Government Shutdown agreement. The full agreement is attached.
Here are a few highlights from the agreement:
7. Unless authorized by law, employees are prohibited from providing
voluntary services to the Agency during a furlough.
- The Agency will continue to provide the full Agency contribution to
health benefits under the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program for
employees affected by a furlough consistent with Statute and
Government-wide regulations. - The Parties acknowledge that the amount of income taxes withheld from
employees’ biweekly earnings will be adjusted to reflect the reduction in
earnings that results from the furlough. Where employees request changes
to withholdings/deductions, the employer will make reasonable efforts to
process such changes in an expeditious manner.