Ben Railton

AFGE leader calls GOP plan for federal workers a “spoils” system

July 22, 2016 By PAI

"The platform advocates such profound changes to the terms of government employment that it would bring to end the merit-based, apolitical civil service system."

Federal workers achieve judicial win in employment discrimination case

January 9, 2015 By PAI

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the Commerce Department's attempt to limit workers' rights to file discrimination cases.

Sequester cuts mean idle planes, poultry plants and VA offices, says AFGE

March 22, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky

Some 250 AFGE members and supporters rallied outside Republican U.S. Senator Roy Blunt's office in St. Louis, March 20, to protest the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts to vital social services and the military, known as...

Pay freeze saves peanuts, AFGE leader charges

November 30, 2010 By John Wojcik

Labor and its allies have come out swinging against President Obama's call for a two-year pay freeze for federal workers.