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Federal Court to Trump: You Broke Labor Law
In a landmark decision, a federal judge has ruled that President Trump violated the U.S. Constitution and laws providing checks and balances in the federal government by attempting to deny more than...
DeVos and Trump Charged with Union Busting
The ongoing saga between the Trump administration and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) took another turn this week when the Education Department and anti-union Secretary Betsy...
Mitchell: The Mad Man Training Trump to Destroy Unions
Once again Trump has proven that his goal is to destroy unions. The billionaire, who has said that he will sign a national right to work law and is waging an open war with federal workers and their...
Republicans Vote to Freeze Federal Wages
On Thursday, the House of Representatives voted on a spending bill that would institute a wage freeze on federal civilian workers in 2019. The vote is an endorsement of Trump’s earlier proposal...
Union Sues Trump...Again
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) has filed a second lawsuit challenging two executive orders issued by President Trump that would curtail the rights of federal workers....
Union Says No More Immigration Arrests
As the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) continues to grapple with understaffing and further cuts, five federal prisons are beginning to receive more than 1,600 ICE detainees. The massive influx of both...
Largest Federal Union Sues Trump
The largest union representing federal government workers, the American Federation of Government Employees, sued the Trump administration Wednesday in response to an executive order President Trump...
Trump Eliminates Release Time for Public Employees
We love posts like these here at UCOMM because they are Guest Posts, meaning someone else wrote it, so we don't have to do all the work. Guest Posts come from another reliable source, usually a...
Betsy DeVos Evicts AFGE From Department of Ed
For the past 30 years, the Association of Federal Government Employees (AFGE) have represented the employees of the Department of Education. As part of their collective bargaining agreement (CBA),...
DeVos Tries to Bust Department of Education Union
Betsy DeVos trying to bust a union, shocking we know, but that is the charge that the Association of Federal Government Employees (AFGE) is launching at the Secretary of Education. AFGE alleges in...