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After four years of bad-faith negotiations and anti-worker behavior at the bargaining table, the VA has agreed to a global settlement with AFGE, creating a clean slate for contract negotiations. As we approach the restart of negotiations with the VA, AFGE’s negotiating team wants to hear what’s important to you to include in the contract.

The Veterans Affairs Department has begun disciplining employees who have not proven that they are vaccinated against COVID-19, sending an untold number into counseling following a deadline to turn over their documentation.

The Biden administration is expanding dental and vision benefits to temporary, seasonal, and part-time workers, certain firefighters and emergency response personnel. 

The Biden administration has directed federal agencies to take concrete steps to help bolster union membership in the federal government and ensure employees are fully informed of their union rights in the workplace.

AFGE has always been a champion of telework and has pushed for its expansion in the federal government for years. In addition to cutting down commute times, fuel costs, greenhouse gas emissions, and overall stress, telework makes work possible for some people with disabilities and caregivers. But it took a pandemic to prove our case and push agencies to think outside the four-walls of the office.

Diane Riddick is a regional vice president of AFGE Local 252 and an investigator with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights in Philadelphia. A year after the coronavirus ravaged the entire world, including the United States, 

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Federal retirees will see the largest annual increase in benefits payments in 40 years in 2022, as the Social Security Administration announced Wednesday that the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment will be 5.9%. The news prompted renewed calls for lawmakers to provide parity across the federal workforce’s retirement systems.