AFGE Local 2608

The best homage to Cesar Chavez is to integrate Hispanic leadership in the AFGE structure, ¡Que Viva la Union¡

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Good Federal Jobs or Walmart’s Low Wages?: At AFGE’s annual legislative conference last week, AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. asked a pointed question facing the country and every American: What legacy would we leave to the next generation? Good federal jobs with real retirement security or Walmart’s low wages, junk health insurance and retirement in poverty? A strong union that improves workers’ lives and their agencies’ mission or a powerless one where nobody has a voice at work? A robust public sector serving the American people or a country run by greedy corporations? The Walmart model is not the model for the U.S. government to follow, Cox said, and it’s up to AFGE and our members to do whatever it takes to win our future of choice for the next generation. AFGE needs to fight to prevent future pay freezes and furloughs and to end sequestration forever.

“We’re AFGE and we’re not taking crap from nobody, no more,” Cox told the fired-up AFGE crowd. “We’re going to swing with both fists and we’re going to take it to Capitol Hill and whoop their ass, that’s what we’re gonna do!”

AFGE National Secretary-Treasurer Eugene Hudson said there are many AFGE members who are still suffering from the effects of sequestration, furloughs, and pay freezes, and we need to stop this suffering.

“AFGE takes seriously the responsibility to protect and represent our members," he said. "We also take seriously that these members must be treated with fairness and honesty and respect. We must fight for this respect and we will fight for this respect.”

Rafael Arroyo, L-2608 Pres.; Ivelisse Báez, L-2608 EVP; and Everett Kelley, District 5 Pres., at TSA Christmas Party January 14, 2014

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10/18/13, 9:08 AM
Union reps at SSA face obstacles in responding to abuses that occurred during the shutdown, due to Mngmt's restrictions on Official Time.

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10/17/13, 1:28 AM
Obama signs bill to raise debt limit, reopen government.

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10/16/13, 11:08 PM
On its way to Pres. Obama's desk, a bipartisan agreement to end the federal government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling...temporarily.

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10/16/13, 12:58 PM
US Senate just reached bipartisan agreement! Yet to reach House and be signed into law. I'm beginning to see the light!

http://m.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-effort-to-end-fiscal-crisis-collapses-leaving-senate-to-forge-last-minute-solution/2013/10/16/1e8bb150-364d-11e3-be86-6aeaa439845b_story.html

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced a bipartisan deal on Wednesday to raise the debt limit through Feb. 7 and end the 16-day-old government shutdown.

The bill must be passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives, and signed by the president, and it is unclear whether all that can happen before the Treasury Department exhausts its borrowing power Thursday.

AFGE rally on October 8, 2013 was a true demonstration of SOLIDARITY, BROTHERHOOD AND SISTERHOOD! AFGE presence at the event included Local 2608 (SSA), Local 2408 (VA), Local 557 (TSA), Local 3911 (EPA), AFGE Council 267 and AFL-CIO PR.

AFGE Local 2608 joined federal employees from multiple agencies in Puerto Rico and fellow labor union leaders at protest on October 8, 2013, held in front of the offices of the Federal Protection Agency, in Guaynabo, which remain empty due to the federal government shutdown.

http://ow.ly/2AympV Un grupo de empleados federales se reunieron en protesta frente al edificio de la Oficina de Rentas Internas por el cierre federal.

Article and video from El Nuevo Día newspaper regarding the protest by federal government workers on October 8, 2013. During the press conference, AFGE local 2608 Grievance Vice-President Angelie Torres explains some of the long-term effects of the shutdown.

Calientan motores los empleados federales Protestarán hoy en City View Plaza