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FEMA joins other federal agencies in canceling union contracts
August 12, 2025 // On Friday, FEMA’s acting administrator, David Richardson, sent a memo to American Federation of Government Employees Local 4060, the union representing the agency, saying that FEMA’s collective bargaining agreement had been terminated, ending a nearly 10-year contract.
US federal workers hope Republicans will curb Trump, Musk firings
November 22, 2024 // The U.S. government is the country's largest employer. While workers are concentrated in Washington, D.C., and nearby Maryland and northern Virginia, some of the greatest concentrations of federal workers can be found in areas like southern Oklahoma and northern Alabama, which are represented by Republicans in the House. The biggest federal employees' union, the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 750,000 federal workers, is also looking to Congress, said Jacqueline Simon, the AFGE's policy director.
Union representing federal immigration workers reacts to Biden’s new asylum restrictions
June 12, 2024 // A union representing employees of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services say it’ll take time for new asylum rules to show results. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced a new immigration policy that restricts the number of asylum seekers allowed to cross the border when crossings reach an average of 2,500 daily encounters or more for seven consecutive days.