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New! International Workers Day May 1st
April 1st, 2016 | Posted by in Events | News | Rally | Solidarity - (0 Comments)Dear Chicago Federation of Labor Affiliates
May Day, also known as International Workers Day, is a celebration of workers that takes places all across the world. Join the Chicago Federation of Labor, Illinois Labor History Society and Jobs with Justice at the site where it all began as we continue the fight for workers’ rights.
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Noon to 2:30 p.m.
Haymarket Memorial
Corner of DesPlaines Street & Randolph Street
The event will feature speakers, live music and international delegates from the World Federation of Trade Unions.
Chicago’s April 1 Day of Action
March 28th, 2016 | Posted by in Events | News | Solidarity - (0 Comments)
Join students, teachers, workers, and all those who thirst for justice.
Multiple events at multiple city locations are planned. Click here for details and updates on Facebook!
If the Government Shuts Down, AFGE has your Back!
September 10th, 2015 | Posted by in Budget | News | Shutdown | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)
As some of you may know, the current funding of the federal government is set to expire on September 30th. AFGE is actively monitoring the situation and working with members of Congress to avoid another shutdown, as well as strongly urging lawmakers to oppose any budget that would negatively impact federal employee wages and benefits.
Senator Ben Cardin (MD) is introducing the Federal Employees Fair Treatment Act of 2015 (FEFTA), which will ensure that all government employees receive guaranteed back pay for their work in the event of any future government shutdown, and to allow employees with scheduled leave during a shutdown to take that leave.
If there is a government shutdown, or if Congress moves forward with a budget proposal that harms workers like you, we will let you know immediately what AFGE is doing to stop it.
Take action on the Budget: Take Action
In solidarity,
AFGE
Call to Arms! Text “AFGE” to 225568
August 18th, 2015 | Posted by in Did you know? | News | Rally | Solidarity | Web - (0 Comments)
Text “AFGE” to 225568 and start receiving text alerts to the attacks on federal government employees by Congress to cut their pay and benefits all why passing tax cuts to the top 1% and corporations. Federal employees have already contributed over $159 Billion in deficit reductions with reduced and frozen pay over the last 6 years.
Enough is enough, and we need to demand that Congress stop using federal employees as the easy target.
Call, write and visit your Congressional representative and tell them “Hell No” to any further cuts on our pay and benefits.
Have you heard, your representative will be voting on The “Federal Adjustment of Income Rates” or “Fair Act” that was introduced to the committee on Oversight & Government Reform on 1/13/8015.
H.R.BILL 304: To increase the rates of pay under the statutory pay systems and for prevailing rate employees by 3.8% for other purposes.
Let your representative know if you support a 3.8% pay raise for Federal Employees by calling AFGE Legislative Hotline: (1-844-913-7574).
Can your family lose 5 months groceries?
Congress has once again targeted government employees to pay for their irresponsible policies by passing a budget resolution that cuts your pay by 12 percent. AFGE swiftly mobilized its members into action.
Through our nationwide campaign, we’re telling Congress “No Way” to more cuts to our paychecks.
AFGE has created an online Budget Action Center to deliver tools that our members need to lobby Congress to kill this disastrous budget deal. By visiting www.afge.org/BudgetActionCenter, members can send letters to their members of Congress, tell their communities how a pay cut would impact them and share content on social media that shows their friends and family what a 12 percent pay cut means to them.
AFGE: Hackers Have Personnel Data on Every Federal Employee
June 12th, 2015 | Posted by in Cybersecurity | Did you know? | News | Web - (0 Comments)
In a letter to Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta, J. David Cox, Sr., the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said that AFGE believes that hackers are now in possession of all personnel data on every federal employee.
Cox sent the letter to OPM today and the union is basing its conclusion on information that OPM has released. Additionally, Cox said that he believes that the Social Security numbers that were compromised were not encrypted, something he called “absolutely indefensible and outrageous.”
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AFGE Local 1395 won 1st place in Membership Increase in the 7th District
April 10th, 2015 | Posted by in Did you know? | Local 1395 | News | Web - (0 Comments)AFGE Local 1395 is growing!
Richard Sorokas, Local 1395 Executive Vice President receives award from National Vice President -7th District, Dorothy James.
Union website blocked by VA’s internet system
February 27th, 2015 | Posted by in News | Web - (0 Comments)
The day after the union representing workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs St. Petersburg Regional Office used its website to announce plans for a protest against management, the VA’s internet system blocked access to the site.
Union officials wonder if they are being targeted and their efforts to organize hampered. But regional office officials say they have no control over website access and that the VA’s national internet system routinely scours websites looking for certain keywords that can place a website on a “non-trusted” status. National VA officials say they are aware of the problem and as of late Thursday afternoon appeared to have fixed it.
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