AFGE – People's World

Slow recovery for federal workers after Trump shutdown

February 15, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

The workers gave those gloomy predictions in the face of Trump’s lack of commitment to signing a spending bill to keep those agencies going through the end of the fiscal year, Sept. 30.

White House tries to gag two million government workers

December 3, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON—The White House Office of Special Counsel has issued a blunt warning to the nation’s two million federal workers – Don’t “talk Trump,” either resistance or impeachment – at the office. And that’s drawn the ire...

Federal workers take to streets nationwide against Trump union-busting

July 26, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

The protests, organized by AFGE, the largest federal union, were in conjunction with a federal court hearing on unions’ lawsuits seeking to declare Trump’s edicts illegal under labor law and unconstitutional under the Bill of Rights.

EPA staffers, supportive lawmakers demand Pruitt ouster

April 26, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

Speakers at the rally in front of agency headquarters in downtown D.C. alternated between slamming Pruitt’s ethics and President Donald Trump’s policies, which they said would befoul the nation’s air and water all to enhance polluters’...

Government employees warn anti-union drive at Education Dept could spread

April 2, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

“This administration won’t stop until every union has been busted and every union contract has been ripped up.”