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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 National Federation of Federal Employees ( NFFE) is an American labor union which represents about 100,000 public employees in the federal government . NFFE has about 200 local unions, most of them agency-wide bargaining units. Its members work primarily in the Department of Defense, the Forest Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs ...
Amazon Labor Union. Association of Professional Flight Attendants. Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers. Campaign Workers Guild. Directors Guild of America. Fraternal Order of Police. Independent Pilots Association. Industrial Workers of the World. International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
Joe Mansour, the workers' compensation specialist at the country’s largest federal employee union, the American Federation of Government Employees, said he has been brought in to work on almost ...
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics most recent survey indicates that union membership in the US has risen to 12.4% of all workers, from 12.1% in 2007. For a short period, private sector union membership rebounded, increasing from 7.5% in 2007 to 7.6% in 2008. [1] However, that trend has since reversed.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ( AFSCME) is the largest trade union of public employees in the United States. [2] It represents 1.3 million [1] public sector employees and retirees, including health care workers, corrections officers, sanitation workers, police officers, firefighters, [3] and childcare ...
Executive Order 10988. Executive Order 10988 is a United States presidential executive order issued by President John F. Kennedy on January 17, 1962 that granted federal employees the right to collective bargaining. This executive order was a breakthrough for public sector workers, who were not protected under the 1935 Wagner Act .
It focused on forcing postmasters to honor federal law mandating an 8-hour day for federal employees. In 1893 it won a Supreme Court decision and $3.5 million in back overtime pay. Local postmasters vigorously opposed the union. It joined the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1917. By the mid-1960s it had 175,000 members in 6,400 local ...