federal workers
AFGE leader calls GOP plan for federal workers a “spoils” system
July 22, 2016"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."
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Federal workers achieve judicial win in employment discrimination case
January 9, 2015The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the Commerce Department's attempt to limit workers' rights to file discrimination cases.
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Sequester cuts mean idle planes, poultry plants and VA offices, says AFGE
March 22, 2013Some 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...
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Pay freeze saves peanuts, AFGE leader charges
November 30, 2010Labor and its allies have come out swinging against President Obama's call for a two-year pay freeze for federal workers.
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