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Policy riders to watch as House appropriators mark up 2025 spending bills

The House’s financial services and general government 2025 spending bill has provisions that could impact the TSP, and push OMB and GSA for more telework…

Budget

American Federation of Government Employees

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TSA, AFGE see milestone contract as ‘pivot point’ for frontline workforce

Unions

TSA, AFGE aim to expand workforce options in new 7-year contract

Unions

Telework, agency funding still an ‘uphill battle’ after SSA, AFGE reach tentative agreement

Workforce

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AFGE, Education resolve years of negotiations in settlement of over 20 disputes

Unions

SSA, AFGE renegotiate agreement to give employees more official time

Unions

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After years of contentious negotiations, HHS, NTEU agree to labor relations reset

Unions

This is an illustration provided by SpaceX shows the SpaceX Starship human lander design that will carry the first NASA astronauts to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program. Jeff Bezos has lost his appeal of NASA's contract with Elon Musk's SpaceX to build its new moon lander. The Government Accountability Office Friday, July 30, 2021 ruled that NASA's award of the $2.9 billion contract to just SpaceX was legal and proper.(SpaceX/NASA via AP)

NASA gets the OK to continue contract related to sending humans back to the moon

Federal Newscast

VA restores official time to health care workforce, agrees to a reset with AFGE

Veterans Affairs

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House appropriators formally endorse Biden’s 2022 federal pay proposal

Pay

Pent up demand for VA services driving record 2022 budget request, agency says

Veterans Affairs

After some agencies restore federal unions’ official time, new House bill would eliminate it

Official time was sharply curtailed during the Trump administration. Now a Republican-backed bill in the House would eliminate official time.

Unions

FILE - In this Spet. 18, 2019, file photo, the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. A Trump administration proposal to roll back environmental reviews for big projects is drawing heavy objections from African American and Latino communities. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

EPA details plans to restore collective bargaining with largest employee union

The Environmental Protection Agency and American Federation of Government Employees will revert back to some policies from a 2007 contract while they negotiate…

Unions

VA announces plans to restore collective bargaining and official time

Veterans Affairs

The Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday announced steps it would take to comply with a January executive order from President Joe Biden. The agency’s largest federal employee union called it a “step in the right direction.”