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AFGE's motto was established as "To Do For All That Which No One Can Do For Oneself". AFGE's original emblem was a shield with the stars and stripes and the words "Justice, Fraternity, Progress" and the current emblem is three workers supporting a globe with a map of the United States and the words "Proud to Make America Work".
The break occurred over the AFL's refusal to abandon its support for craft unionism and cease its attacks on industrial unions. NFFE disaffiliated in December 1931. The AFL responded by chartering a new federal employees union, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), on October 17, 1932.
Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, signing formal recognition of SI Lodge No. 2463 of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). An October-November 1965 issue of the Smithsonian Institution's employee newsletter, The Smithsonian Torch, features a photograph of Secretary S. Dillon Ripley signing a document to recognize AFGE Lodge No. 2463. [1]
Those who oppose the resignation scheme include AFGE, the largest federal employee union. In a complaint, it wrote that the proposed buy-outs were "arbitrary and capricious" and violate federal law.
Sheria Smith, the president of the AFGE union at the Department of Education and a civil rights attorney at the agency, said department elimination was "on the lower end of concerns" because it ...
The Navy reservist, and a member of AFGE Local 252, a union representing Education Department workers, joined a tight-knit unit where most of her colleagues are veterans like her.
In 1966, newly elected national president Vincent L. Connery and his supporters defeated a proposed merger into the larger American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). They launched organizing campaigns, adopted a new constitution, and began transformation from a social club into an active labor union.
And the union has offered federal employees a place to get answers to their questions together; a recent AFGE meeting brought together roughly 1,600 people, according to one attendee.