American Federation of Government Employees

‘Who’s going to run the prison?’ Union says loss of pay bonuses at BOP facility will cause major attrition

AFGE is urging BOP to renew annual retention incentives for correctional officers at United States Penitentiary Thomson ahead of a planned end of the bonuses…

Pay

Many federal retirees to receive 3.2% in 2024 COLA, but not everyone gets the same adjustment

Retirement

FILE - A sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 6, 2020. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

New 25% retention bonuses at Bureau of Prisons only a ‘Band-Aid’ for larger staffing issues

Pay

Government shutdown averted, but federal employees still wary as Congress shifts deadline to holiday season

Government Shutdown

Lawmakers urge EPA, AFGE to ‘bargain in good faith’ after impasse on DEIA article

Unions

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AFGE highlights new survey results, asks NSF to reconsider return-to-office plans

Workforce

An ambulance stands next to a transport plane carrying people flown out of Afghanistan at Ramstein Air Base, in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, Friday, Aug. 2021. (Uwe Anspach/dpa via AP)

AFGE launches new local for DoD employees in Europe

Defense

VA signs new labor agreement with AFGE, its first update in more than a decade

Workforce

How AFGE’s new contract improves the lives of 300,000 VA employees, the veterans we serve

Commentary

TSA finally gets its pay raise: Here’s how we got here, and what comes next

Federal Report

This group says it keeps federal unions accountable to their members

Unions

As POTUS, DeSantis says he will ‘start slitting throats’ of feds on day one

In today’s Federal Newscast: Military families will now be able to use $5,000 in pre-tax income to care for dependents. DoD’s CIO mandates new rules for…

Federal Newscast

FILE - This June 21, 2013, file photo, shows the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. In a federal lawsuit filed this week, U.S. Navy veteran from South Carolina says he ended up with “full-blown AIDS,” because government health care workers never informed him of his positive test result in 1995. He says the test was done as part of standard lab tests at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Columbia, South Carolina. A V.A. spokeswoman says the agency typically does not comment on pending litigation. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

VA, AFGE reach ‘historic’ settlement to reinstate, compensate thousands of wrongfully fired feds

The department expects the settlement agreement with AFGE to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but it will take years to either reinstate or compensate…

Veterans Affairs

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