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AFGE
- American Federation of Government Employees.
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Those senior workers would not only lose collective bargaining rights laid out in the law, but the change would eviscerate “the apolitical, merit-based system we have today” and replace it with “a corrupt spoils system,” Jacque Simon, AFGE’s public policy director, said in a union publication.
Johnny J. Jones, secretary-treasurer of the TSA workers unit within the AFGE, said even a temporary loss in pay is a massive disruption for government workers who live paycheck to paycheck.
LaPointe, a mother of four who is also a union leader for 30,000 Social Security workers through AFGE, said a shutdown would be “a catastrophe” personally.
On Monday, bargaining on six contract articles will begin with the Social Security Administration, an agency Rich Couture, AFGE’s lead agency negotiator in the talks, said “is in the midst of the worst public service crisis in memory.”
Just last month, AFGE’s National Veterans Affairs Council President Alma Lee accused VA of “acting in a way totally contrary to President Biden’s commitment to be the most pro-union president in history,” after a federal arbitrator ruled the department had committed unfair labor practices.
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