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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 ...
GECU is the oldest credit union formed in El Paso, Texas. [2] In 1932, eleven El Paso civil servants pooled $5 each to form a credit union inside of the broom closet of El Paso's federal building. [1] [3] In one year, the capital funds of the credit union had increased to $1305. [4] In 1947 there were 135 members which grew to 690 members in ...
By 1960, the credit union grew to serve over 70,000 members and had assets of almost $25 million. [7] By 2022, State Employees' Credit Union had grown to over $53.1 Billion in assets and 2.7 million members. This made State Employees' the second largest credit union in the United States in terms of assets and membership.
Membership in the Treasury Department Federal Credit Union is available to employees of the US Treasury Department, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Courts, United States Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC), CDC National Center for Health Statistics, as well as persons who live, work (or regularly conduct business), worship, or attend school in, and businesses and other legal entities ...
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 ...
While manufacturing and farming steadily declined, state- and local-government employment quadrupled from 4 million workers in 1950 to 12 million in 1976 and 16.6 million in 2009. [18] Adding in the 3.7 million federal civilian employees there were 20 million government employees.
This is a partial list of credit unions in the United States.. A credit union is a member-owned financial cooperative, democratically controlled by its members, and operated for the purpose of promoting thrift, providing credit at competitive rates, and providing other financial services to its members. [1]
As of March 2020, the largest American credit union was Navy Federal Credit Union, serving U.S. Department of Defense employees, contractors, and families of servicepeople, with over $125 billion in assets and over 9.1 million members. [5] Total credit union assets in the U.S. reached $1 trillion as of March 2012. [6]