Unions
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The National Nurses Organizing Committee and National Nurses United at Veterans Affairs have signed a three-year contract. It covers more than 14,000 RNs at 23 VA hospitals. Negotiations spanned nearly a decade and two president's administrations
June 12, 2023 -
Over the past few years, letter carriers pulled residents from a burning home, rescued plane crash survivors and protected a woman from an attacker by sheltering her in their mail truck.
May 15, 2023 -
Public employee unions are a fact of life at the federal and most state levels of government, and in many large cities.
May 12, 2023 -
Union leaders have emphasized that collective bargaining agreements already in place outweigh OMB's latest telework memo, but AFGE's chapter representing HUD employees is calling for even more flexibility from agency leadership.
May 09, 2023 -
Negotiations over a new DEIA contract article have come to a standstill for the Environmental Protection Agency and the American Federation of Government Employees.
May 05, 2023 -
A disagreement between the Army and the AFGE Local 2119 at Rock Island Arsenal has each side following a different contract, and no agreement in sight.
May 04, 2023 -
A two-year pay raise for federal wildland firefighters will expire on Sept. 30. The first responders joined union leaders and lawmakers to push Congress for a permanent one.
April 21, 2023 -
Stressful work conditions are causing severe burnout among SSA employees, leading to high attrition rates and growing workloads for employees who remain with the agency, the American Federation of Government Employees said.
April 11, 2023 -
Three House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee chairmen wrote to OMB seeking data and details about how agencies are complying with the Federal Activities Inventory Reform (FAIR) Act of 1998.
April 10, 2023 -
If approved, the agreement would make several changes to the union contract, aiming to expedite the VA’s hiring process as the department prepares to staff up amid an increasing workload.
April 07, 2023 -
A union-conducted survey of federal employees found that 97% of respondents were either in favor of or simply neutral to telework.
April 04, 2023 -
Labor leaders called on the Biden administration to investigate the workplace practices of federal contractor Maximus, claiming the company systemically prevents call center staff, who are predominately Black and Latina women, from advancing their careers.
March 22, 2023 -
Federal unions have seen a roughly 20% increase in bargaining unit membership governmentwide, with close to 80,000 feds joining a union between 2021 and 2022.
March 20, 2023 -
The Postal Service is seeing a significant increase in letter carrier robberies and mail theft, but the union representing its shrinking police force says the agency is preventing them from protecting carriers on delivery routes.
March 16, 2023 -
More than two years into the Biden administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the largest federal employee union appear no closer to an agreement on a new labor contract.
March 15, 2023