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2nd Wednesday of each Month.
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: 600 W. Madison, Chicago IL 60661
Room: HWSSC Conference Room #1- 1st FL.
NEXT MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Wednesday October 10th, 2018
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October 8th, 2018 | Posted by in Did you know? | JOIN AFGE | Local 1395 | Membership Meetings | News - (0 Comments)ATTACKS TO FEDERAL EMPLOYEES CONTINUE
September 13th, 2018 | Posted by in Did you know? | News | Your Rights - (0 Comments)Heads up federal employee friends, Congress is trying to pass another BS law designed to hurt us. Its called the MERIT ACT, short for Modern Employment Reform Improvement, and Transformation Act. Call your reps today 866-356-0201 to tell your Member of Congress that this is unfair and unproductive, and to oppose the MERIT Act.
Under the MERIT Act:
You would no longer be able to appeal adverse actions and unfair reductions in force actions through the grievance procedures. The only venue for you to appeal these unfair actions would be the severely under-resourced Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), which reviews similar cases for the entire federal workforce of 2 million employees. The agency’s decision becomes final if the MSPB does not issue a decision within 30 days.
You will not have enough time to mount a credible defense if you are accused of performance or disciplinary issues, because the bill drastically shortens the response time.
You can be fired at any point in your first two years on the job, for any reason.
You may be forced to repay a bonus or award if the agency head claims he or she was unaware of a conduct or performance issues when you received the payment.
To stay involved and updated on what AFGE is doing to protect your rights, text AFGE to 225568 from your personal phone (never your government phone) to subscribe to text updates.
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July 16th, 2018 | Posted by in News | Political | Social Security Administration (SSA) | Solidarity | Your Rights - (0 Comments)
LETTER FROM AFGE PRESIDENT!
Hello AFGE Retiree Brothers and Sisters –
Let’s start with a thank you to all of you who took the time to make a phone call or send a message to Congress about the federal budget. The Fiscal Year 2018 budget was adopted last week without making any cuts to current or future federal retirees’ benefits. The president’s budget proposed eliminating the COLA permanently for current retirees, and initially approved a budget that turned Medicare into an underfunded voucher program (and Medicaid into a block grant).
While this is good news, the passage of the budget clears the way for a tax reform package that calls for the funding to come from $500 billion in Medicare cuts and over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid.
Even more, the budget cuts operating budgets for many agencies, including a cut of $465 million from the Social Security Administration’s operating budget. Right now, appointments for new Social Security claims can take up to 60 days, and benefits appeals can take over two years.
It is estimated that for every $100 million in budget cuts, another 826,000 new retirement or survivors’ claims will not be processed on time.
More Good News on Your COLA
The Social Security Administration announced that the cost of living adjustment (COLA) will be 2.0 percent, higher than in previous years. At the same, the federal retiree COLA for 2018 will be 2.0 percent.
Neither of these COLAs has kept pace with inflation, particularly factoring in the expenses of most retirees, but is an improvement of last year’s COLAs of 0.3 percent for Social Security and 0.3 percent for FERS and CSRS.
GET ON THE CALL!
October 10th, 2017 | Posted by in Budget | Did you know? | News | Political | Shutdown - (0 Comments)Your Invited!
AFGE Invites ALL Government Workers & Retirees to participate in a National Union Meeting
- Tuesday, October 10 @ 7:00pm CST OR 9:00pm CST..
ALL government workers — whether they’re an AFGE member or not are WELCOME to join the call.
A budget passed the House of Representatives on Thursday that would cut your pay and retirement. This budget will still need to be voted on by the Senate.
Please be on either of of these calls to learn how you can help to stop these cuts before they become law.
On the 1st call, Virginia Senator, Tim Kaine (Senate Budget Committee) will join, AFGE President David Cox. 
- Call in number: 1-877-229-8493
- Pass Code: 110858#
Don’t use government phones or be in duty status.
Keep up to date with current news about Your Pay, and Pension!
See Link: government-standard_july_august-2017
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May 8th, 2017 | Posted by in Did you know? | JOIN AFGE | News | Political - (0 Comments)
Contact your Representative.. Your Job Depends on It!
March 14th, 2017 | Posted by in News | Political - (0 Comments)CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE … TELL THEM
“VOTE NO”
Feds, Retirees to Pay 6.2% More in Health Insurance Premiums
Federal employees and retirees will pay 6.2% more on average for health insurance premiums next year. This unacceptably high increase will hit millions of Americans in the pocketbook, making coverage less and less affordable and will cause many to drop coverage.
“Like most other Americans, federal employees and retirees have seen their standard of living decline due to stagnant incomes and cost increases for basic goods and services,” AFGE President J. David Cox Sr. said. “This is an unacceptably high increase that will force many families to make difficult decisions about how to pay their bills.”
While employees enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program will pay 6.2% more for their insurance premiums starting in January, the government’s share of those premiums will increase just 3.7%, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
For more information see
The 24th annual National Association of Letter Carriers’
Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive is on
Saturday, May 14, 2016.
The 24th annual Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive is the nation’s largest one-day, providing letter carriers, other postal employees and thousands of volunteers across the nation the opportunity to meld their forces together to conduct the drive in their local communities.
“Letter carriers touch every residential and business address in this country at least six days a week,” NALC President Fredric Rolando said, “and our continued effort in the fight against hunger—often in our own neighborhoods—has made us all too familiar with the staggering numbers of people in need.”
The availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, or the ability to acquire such food, is limited or uncertain for 1 in 6 Americans, many of whom are in households with at least one person working.
Last year’s drive collected approximately 71 million pounds of non-perishable food that was left in bags next to postal customers’ mailboxes. It was the 12th consecutive year that letter carriers have collected more than 70 million pounds of food, and it brought the drive’s grand total to more than 1.4 billion pounds of food collected.
The drive is held each year on the second Saturday in May, and so Saturday, May 14, has for months been circled on the calendars of hunger-relief advocates who have watched as food supplies collected during winter holiday drives dwindle day by day. The drive also comes just before many school systems end their academic years, and that often can mean a suspension in subsidized meals for many students.
The food drive’s national partners are the U.S. Postal Service, the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, United Way Worldwide, the AFL-CIO and Valassis.
Your Letter Carrier will collect non-perishable food left on your porch.
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