The labor movement helped to secure the 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security,  Medicare and retirement plans.

May the New Year bring us Hope and Courage!

A complete and comprehensive estate plan includes properly filled out beneficiary designation forms. Federal benefits expert, Ed Zurndorfer, discusses what federal employees need to consider in avoiding the biggest mistakes in making their beneficiary designations.

Over two million union members and retirees are veterans — the heart and the backbone of America.

Union Plus now offers the new Union Plus Mortgage Veterans Grant to provide qualified union member veterans with a $1,000 grant that never needs to be repaid to help offset the costs of a down payment.

To be eligible for a grant, members must meet the following qualifications:

Finance their mortgage of their primary residence through the Union Plus Mortgage program on or after November 1, 2014

Be an active or retired union member of a participating union

Be a veteran of the United States Armed Services

Hey AFGE Local 1395 members, let’s MOBILIZE! Representatives Gerry Connolly and Jim Moran of Virginia recently introduced an AFGE-backed bill that would give federal employees a 3.3% raise in 2015. The increase would apply both to General Schedule employees and hourly workers. Call your U.S. Rep and ask him/her to sponsor The Fair Act – H.R. 4306. We need sponsors from Illinois!