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Following the adoption of the Minority, Diversity and Inclusion (MDI) Committee charter in late 2013, NFFE has spent months soliciting NFFE-IAM membership to apply to the committee. The committee is…

The IAM Retirees’ Department is convening two Retirees’ Assistance programs at the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Hollywood, Maryland. The programs are designed to educate participants on…

This past weekend, numerous NFFE Young Federal Leaders (YFL) members traveled to San Antonio, TX for the IAM Young Workers and Emerging Leaders Conference. With a record number of young…

On Jan. 1, 2014, a one percent across-the-board pay adjustment went into effect for white-collar General Schedule (GS) federal employees. While this modest pay bump was welcome following a three-year…

Union Plus Scholarships were introduced in 1992 to help support union members, leaders and families in their pursuit of higher education. To date, Union Plus has awarded more than $3.5…

On January 1, 2014 GS federal employees ended their three-year pay freeze with a modest 1 percent pay adjustment. While that was a positive development, Congress failed to make the…

January is a time when we often reflect on what we accomplished during the previous year, and what we hope to achieve during the New Year. People often set goals…

Congress just can’t seem to do anything right these days. By taking no action to prevent it, Congress allowed a much-needed one percent pay adjustment for General Schedule (GS) federal…

Last week, the Budget Conference Committee announced that it had reached an agreement, unveiling the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013. The bill was then passed by a 332-94 vote in…

Right now on Capitol Hill, House and Senate lawmakers are negotiating a budget deal to fund the federal government through the end of Fiscal Year 2014. Inexplicably, some lawmakers are…