Contribute to AFGE Members through FEEAAFGE members are on the ground helping survivors of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. AFGE partnered with the Federal Employees Education and Assistance Fund (FEEA) to manage disaster relief efforts and assist government employees as they recover. The fund is made up of donations by AFGE affiliates which are earmarked exclusively for AFGE members in need of disaster assistance.
Thousands of people use Washington, D.C.’s historic Union Station every day, but few notice an important statue of a leading civil and labor rights figure located in the main train concourse outside of the Starbucks. That statue belongs to A. Philip Randolph, one of the most visible faces in the long national struggle for civil rights.
Despite his significant contributions to the civil rights and labor movement, younger people may not even know him. They, however, owe what they might have taken for granted to this man because he led a successful campaign against racial discrimination in the workplace. After Randolph and his fellow civil rights activists threatened to hold a March on Washington in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 prohibiting racial discrimination in the national defense industry and government. It was the first federal action to prohibit employment discrimination in the United States.
Randolph continued to play a leading role in our nation’s civil rights and labor movement until his death in 1979. He remains an inspiration for us all with the principles he spoke of that day: empowering the powerless, challenging authority, and never faltering in the hardest of times; for it is the hardest of times that forge the greatest of people. Phillip Randolph would have turned 129 on April 15, 2018.
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AFGE invites you to participate in a National Union meeting Tuesday, April 10 at 8 p.m. ET OR 10 p.m. ET.
NOTE: (7:00 pm or 9:00 pm Central Time)
ALL government workers — whether they’re an AFGE member or not — are welcome to join the call.
Make sure to join us for an all-union telephone town hall. All government workers — whether they’re an AFGE member or not — are welcome to join the call.
This meeting will be held on the second Tuesday of each month. It’s your chance to hear the latest news on major issues facing AFGE members and to ask your questions live. Please make sure you are not on official time or duty time, not on government property, and on your personal phone for this call.
In solidarity,
AFGE
P.S. If you have any questions for the teletown hall, email townhall@afge.org or simply reply to this email.
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