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Contract UPDATE

October 7th, 2019 | Posted by admin in Contract | Did you know? - (0 Comments)

 AFGE & SSA  reach new

Collective Bargaining Agreement 

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 Notice of Nominations

September 2nd, 2019 | Posted by admin in ELECTIONS | Local 1395 | Uncategorized | Vote - (0 Comments)

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. 

AFGE Nominations

Contract UPDATE!

August 19th, 2019 | Posted by admin in Contract | KNOW YOUR CONTRACT - (0 Comments)

SSA Members Voted

NOT

to Ratify the

Proposed Contract

 

Stay Tuned for More Updates! 

SAVE THE DATE – LABOR DAY

August 1st, 2019 | Posted by admin in Did you know? | Labor History | Solidarity - (0 Comments)

FEDERAL WORKERS ARE UNDER ATTACK

July 25th, 2019 | Posted by admin in Budget | Did you know? | National Updates - (0 Comments)

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

AFGE opposes OPM nominee

May 16th, 2019 | Posted by admin in Did you know? | Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

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.

Key Functions

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.

 

Union opposes OPM nominee

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 FedSoup Article Here

 

Read AFGE Notice to Senate Committee members:

AFGE opposses OPM Nominee

 

27th Annual Food Drive

May 10th, 2019 | Posted by admin in Food Drive - Stamp Out Hunger | Solidarity - (0 Comments)

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!

May Day

April 19th, 2019 | Posted by admin in Did you know? | Labor History - (0 Comments)

Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers’ Day of May Day. For many others there is an assumption that it is a holiday celebrated in state communist countries like Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americansdon’t realize that May Day has its origins here in this country and is as “American” as baseball and apple pie, and stemmed from the pre-Christian holiday of Beltane, a celebration of rebirth and fertility.

Over one hundred years have passed since that first May Day. In the earlier part of the 20th century, the US government tried to curb the celebration and further wipe it from the public’s memory by establishing “Law and Order Day” on May 1.

The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, which become the American Federation of Labor, during a Chicago convention in 1884 proclaimed that a legal work day would be eight hours starting on May 1, 1886.

On that day, 40,000 workers in Chicago and more than 300,000 laborers from 13,000 businesses across the U.S. staged walkouts, with the proclamation backed by the country’s biggest labor organization at the time, the Knights of Labor.

 

May Day   Link to More information on May Day 

 Newsweek Article

FREE PICNIC if you Purchase a Six Flags Ticket

April 11th, 2019 | Posted by admin in Did you know? | Great America Trip - (0 Comments)

SAVE THE DATE – Great America Picnic!

April 7th, 2019 | Posted by admin in Benefits | Great America Trip - (0 Comments)

Great-America

Save the Date!!!
Saturday, July 27, 2019
(Members Only)

*Discounted Park Admission Tickets
*FREE LUNCH!
*FREE ADMISSION HURRICANE HARBOR
*FREE THRILL PASS–(Unlimited return visits thru 9/2/19)

*SPORTS BOTTLES (Free Refills) Limited Supply

Tickets will be available soon!