On June 20, 2025 at 5:00 pm the Agency released the following notice to the union. AFGE has requested to discuss the changes with the Agency.
AFGE Contract:
Article 10, Section 6, Suspension of Flextime and Flexible 5/4/9 and 4/40 Work Arrangements.
A.
Should management determine, after consideration of bona fide operational needs, that it is unable to provide the level of service required to support agency operations and provide service to the American public, the appropriate management official may suspend, for the duration of the operational need, the flexible 5/4/9 or 4/40 schedule and/or credit hours. In these situations, management may assign employees to a fixed shift.
Management may also direct specific arrival or departure times. This notification will normally be made 48 hours in advance.
B.
Employees who are scheduled to attend training may have to revert to the working hours in effect at the training site. Their flexible 5/4/9 or 4/40 work arrangement tour may also be suspended.
C.
If an employee’s flexible work arrangement is suspended, it will automatically be restored as soon as possible after the reason for the suspension needs have been met (i.e., the next pay period).
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AFGE Family,
Let's get one thing clear from the outset: 2024 is not ending the way many of us hoped it would. But the uncertainty over a change in presidential administrations does not take away from the incredible accomplishments we delivered for federal and D.C. government workers over the past year.
From record organizing growth to new rights and protections for many of the employees we represent, AFGE members had a lot to celebrate this year – and we're looking back at our top 10 victories in this latest edition of the Government Standard.
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AFGE continued to secure significant victories this year that have improved the lives of all government employees and their families, as we used our collective voice to speak out against unjust policies and proposals.
The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States and the leadership changes in Congress bring with it a lot of uncertainty – for our jobs, our workplace rights, and our individual freedoms. But what's not uncertain is the commitment of our members, and all federal and D.C. government employees, to continue working on behalf of all Americans.
For months leading up to Election Day, AFGE members across the country knocked on doors and phone banked to get out the union vote for Kamala Harris and pro-worker candidates. AFGE members at all levels were involved in outreach for the 2024 elections, given the stakes for the future of our union and the entire labor movement.
AFGE reached our goal of organizing 300,000 members just two months into the year, and we're well on our way to reaching our newest goal of 325,000 members by 2025.
Project 2025 is a blueprint for the hostile takeover of the federal government under an anti-union presidential administration. Everything from our jobs and union rights to the very existence of our agencies and our union are on the line.
Authored by the ultra-conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, much of what is included in the 922-page document has to do with recommendations for enormous changes to the terms of federal employment, such as eliminating the GS and WG pay systems, making huge changes to the retirement system by cutting federal employee pensions and increasing the Social Security age, reinstating discriminatory hiring practices, making it almost impossible to reverse disciplinary actions and more.
Project 2025 threatens the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of federal employees and the unions that represent them by recommending budget cuts to shrink the government, privatize portions of the government and convert hundreds of thousands of jobs to Schedule F, which demands loyalty to the president, not the Constitution. It also recommends ordering agencies to reopen existing collective bargaining agreements to attain the strongest management rights and to decertify unions at DOD and DHS.
AFGE needs all hands-on deck to stop Project 2025 because if it succeeds, AFGE will no longer exist.
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The 2025 cost of living adjustment (COLA) was announced last week, and most federal workers will again receive a reduced COLA due to a flawed rule in the current law.
For 2025, Social Security beneficiaries and Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) retirees are expected to receive a 2.5% COLA, while Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) retirees, those hired in 1984 or later, will only get a 2% increase.
Under the current law, the COLAs for Social Security, CSRS, and FERS are all calculated based on the rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). If CPI is 2% or less, the FERS COLA is the same as the CSRS and Social Security COLA. But if the CPI is between 2.01% and 3%, the FERS COLA is 2%. If the CPI is greater than 3%, then the COLA for FERS is 1% less than the CSRS COLA.
What does that mean for a FERS retiree? It means they will lose $128 a year just for 2025, assuming the same average pension. But for those who retired four years ago with the same average pension, their pension would have lost more than $1,000 to rising costs because the losses are compounded.
This unfair penalty places FERS retirees further away from keeping pace with the cost of living.
That’s why AFGE supports the Equal COLA Act (S. 3194 introduced by Sen. Alex Padilla and H.R. 866 introduced by Rep. Gerry Connolly) which would eliminate this unfair penalty for FERS Retirees. The legislation would also eliminate the arbitrary pension cost of living reduction federal employees face in high inflation years.
“Our nation’s public servants shouldn’t see their hard-earned retirement benefits eroded by a COLA set at the start to be arbitrarily lower the real inflation rate,” said AFGE Legislative Director Julie Tippens.
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