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The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is an American labor union representing over 750,000 employees of the federal government, about 5,000 employees of the District of Columbia, and a few hundred private sector employees, mostly in and around federal facilities. AFGE is the largest union for civilian, non-postal federal ...
The Lloyd-La Follette Act provided a significant impetus to the formation federal employees' unions. In 1916, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) acted to bring the various local unions together to form a single national union. The National Federation of Federal Employees was founded in Washington, D.C., on September 17, 1917. In 1918, it ...
In a January 2022 letter to the editor of the Federal News Network, new Local 2463 President Reginald Booth wrote that, "Despite the recent rise in COVID cases reported by the Smithsonian, agency heads ignored the pleas of union employees and continued to allow an unlimited number of visitors to pour into the museums over the holiday period." [12]
In 1974, Gage became a disability examiner for the Social Security Administration (SSA), and joined the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). He became president of his union local in 1982, and a national vice president, in which role he instituted the "lunch and learns" organizing program. He stood down as national vice president ...
Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, pointed out that these contracts are legally binding.
The National Association of Government Employees (NAGE) is a registered labor union with the United States Department of Labor representing approximately 43,000 [2] members in the United States of America.
He was also elected as a vice-president of the AFL-CIO in 1977, and in 1981 as president of the federation's Public Employee Department. [1] As leader of the AFGE, Blaylock was a strong supporter of the controversial Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. Under his leadership, membership of the union fell as government employment contracted, and the ...
In 1977, it began to organize employees in other federal agencies; in 1978, employees of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) became the first members outside the Treasury Department. In August 1983, Connery retired as NTEU’s national president and Robert M. Tobias, national executive vice president and general counsel, succeeded him.