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A Federal Judge Blocked the VA From Ending Its AFGE Contract — Again
A federal judge has blocked the VA from ending its union contract with the American Federation of Government Employees — the third time this year the same court has stopped the sam...
VA Union Contract and August 8: What the Master Agreement Actually Says
The AFGE–VA master agreement reaches its three-year terminal date on August 8, 2026, and whether the contract ends that day comes down to a single paragraph that most coverage has ...
TSA Privatization Threatens Airport Security Jobs
The Trump administration’s proposal to dramatically expand the TSA Screening Partnership Program should get the attention of every federal employee—especially TSA officers. The pro...
VA Union Contract Restored: What Employees Should Know
For Department of Veterans Affairs employees represented by AFGE’s National VA Council, the First Circuit’s recent ruling is more than procedural news. A unanimous three-judge pane...
AFGE Wins HUD Telework Arbitration Case
Federal employees received significant news this week: AFGE Council 222 secured a class-wide arbitration win requiring HUD to restore routine telework agreements that were rolled b...
AFGE Lawsuit Over Partisan Out-of-Office Messages: A First Amendment Test
Federal employees at the Department of Education recently discovered something shocking: their out-of-office messages—intended to explain the shutdown—had been rewritten to blame “...
VA Union Contracts Canceled: What Federal Employees Need to Know
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has just taken a step that will reverberate across the federal workforce: it voided union contracts covering more than 360,000 healthcare wo...
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