The position of Executive Vice President will have a Run-Off race between the top two contestants. The election for the position of Executive Vice President will be finalized when a candidate receives a majority of the ballots cast.
Local 1395 election Ballots are in YOUR Mail.
Don’t Delay Deadline November 15, 2019. 
Election Ballot information
On behalf of the AFGE Local 1395 (Local 1395) Election Committee, Honest Ballot, an independent, third party election services provider, is pleased to present your voting instructions for the 2019 election. Nominations and acceptances were completed as of September 25, 2019.
Voting for this election will be online and will be open from October 9, 2019 to November 15, 2019.
Local 1395 is currently electing officers and delegates. When you open your ballot online, you will see the list of candidates for each office. Please see the LINK BELOW for the list of officer positions and candidates who have been nominated, along with those elected by acclamation.
Please submit your vote by 11:59 P.M. on November 15, 2019.
If it comes to your attention that a fellow member did not receive this notice, please advise them to contact Honest Ballot at vote@honestballot.com.
If you have any questions about the election procedures, please contact Honest Ballot.
Customer service is available from 9:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday, at (800) 541-1851, and by email, vote@honestballot.com, other days and times.
This is the second segment of AFGE’s 5-part series: The Secret Memo: Inside Trump’s Plan to Destroy Unions.
Unions are a cornerstone of our democracy and middle class. As a government employee union, we work hard to make sure that federal workers are treated fairly so that they can focus on serving the American people. Happy employees are good for business, the government, and the American public. That’s why Congresses and administrations have for decades enacted laws and implemented policies that protect federal employees’ rights to bargain collectively.
But the Trump administration sees unions as enemies to be wiped out.
A leaked White House memo outlines President Trump’s plans to purge government unions and end collective bargaining in the federal government. Here’s what one bullet of that memo says exactly:
“End collective bargaining. (EO/DOD) Government unions impede the efficiency of federal operations and direct the government to put the interests of government employees first. Curtailing collective bargaining in government serves the public good. The [Civil Service Reform Act] allows the President to exempt agencies from its coverage on the basis of national security concerns.
The administration has since issued governmentwide anti-federal worker policies, including three hostile executive orders, under the guise of reform. The leaked memo, however, revealed the administration’s real goal and confirmed what we already know: they want to get rid of unions and federal workers.
VA workers, for example, are being hit hard by new policies that took away their workplace rights, prompting AFGE and other unions to file lawsuits. The VA and our union’s National VA Council are currently negotiating a new collective bargaining contract, but the VA is trying to get rid of most if not all workplace protections and is now negotiating in bad faith, prompting the council to file a national grievance. In addition, a recent book by Secretary Shulkin claims President Trump even mulled an executive order shuttering parts of the VA.
For OPM, the administration is trying to blow it up altogether in what would be a disastrous move for workers and the apolitical civil service as we know it. The administration wants to dismantle the central personnel agency and merge parts of it with the General Services Administration (GSA) while moving other functions under political appointees at the White House in the Office of Management and Budget, all with no legal analysis to support these moves. Our union and OPM are in contract negotiation, and the administration is once again floating anti-worker proposals.
DoD is maintaining the status quo for now, but it’s only a matter of time before the administration will try to implement the anti-worker executive orders.
The Transportation Security Administration, which is part of Homeland Security, has issued a new workplace guideline that took away even more workplace rights from TSA officers – the very people who had to work 35 consecutive days without pay due to the Trump shutdown earlier this year. TSA officers are among the lowest paid employees in the federal government and have one of the highest turnovers – one in four officers quit within six months. TSA spent $16 million to hire and train those workers.
Other agencies are being hit with the same anti-worker policies and mob mentality.
Next week we will discuss what the administration’s secret memo reveals about their plan to cut federal workers’ pay, retirement, and benefits.
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After more than a year of tense negotiations, the Social Security Administration and the American Federation of Government Employees have finally reached an agreement on a new, six-year contract.
The new collective bargaining agreement, which SSA management and AFGE representatives signed late last week, settles months of disagreements between the two parties and offers both some stability days before the injunction on the president’s May 2018 executive orders was lifted.
See Full Article in Federal News AFGE/SSA Contract
AFGE Local 1395 has opened Nominations for Officers and Delegates.
Nomination Deadline is Wednesday September 11, 2019.
The attached Notice has been mailed to all Members.
Federal workers’ rights are under attack!
We have to act now to pressure the Senate to stand with us by ensuring that language stays in the FY 2020 funding bill to prevent agencies from imposing collective bargaining agreements that are not fairly bargained or arbitrated.
Click here to send a letter to your Senator about the FY 2020 funding bill.
Sending this letter is another way for you to fight back against the attacks on federal workers.
In Solidarity,
AFGE
It is important to know how Office of Personnel Management (OPM) effects you as a federal employee.
This is the description OPM has on their website to describe their role in the employment process.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) serves as the chief human resources agency and personnel policy manager for the Federal Government. OPM provides human resources leadership and support to Federal agencies and helps the Federal workforce achieve their aspirations as they serve the American people. OPM directs human resources and employee management services, administers retirement benefits, manages healthcare and insurance programs, oversees merit-based and inclusive hiring into the civil service, and provides a secure employment process.
OPM’s divisions, offices, and their employees implement the programs and deliver the services that enable the agency to meet its strategic goals. OPM works in several broad categories to lead and serve the Federal Government in enterprise human resource management by delivering policies and services to achieve a trusted effective civilian workforce.
The American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO—the nation’s largest federal employee union—has officially opposed the nominee for the Office and Personnel Management.
Read AFGE Notice to Senate Committee members:
The 27th annual National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) 
Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is set for this Saturday, May 11. To make a donation, simply leave a bag of nonperishable food items by your mailbox on Saturday and your letter carrier will do the rest. All donations stay local.
Saturday’s union-made food drive is the largest one-day food drive in America. National partners with the NALC include the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and the AFL-CIO.
Set out your nonperishable donation well before your letter carrier’s normal pickup time. Letter carriers will be delivering and collecting mail as usual, on top of collecting food donations, so pickup time may slightly vary.
Show your union and community solidarity by making a food donation during this year’s Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.
Be sure to leave a bag of nonperishable food items by your mailbox on Saturday, May 11, and thank a union member for doing the rest!
