Internal NFFE News
January 27, 2025
The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) is proud to announce that long-time employee Amy Burns-Gollinger has been promoted to National Chief of Staff/ADBR.
Gollinger has been with NFFE for 15 years. She was first hired as office manager in 2010 and began working on a passion project to create a young worker’s program that was eventually picked up by other AFL–CIO unions. Later because of this work, NFFE was invited to sit on the AFL’s Young Worker Advisory Council after developing Young Federal Leaders.
In 2013, Gollinger was hired as an Apprentice Business Representative before growing into the position of National Business Representative in 2014 serving the Midwest region. Eventually, Gollinger moved on to serve the Northeast region in 2020.
“Amy and I both started at NFFE early in our professional careers and every day since then Amy has proven her dedication to the wellbeing of this union,” said NFFE National President Randy Erwin. “NFFE is incredibly lucky to have a skilled and experienced unionist like Amy leading our business reps and supporting our headquarters staff. Congratulations to Amy on this well deserved promotion. I am excited to see the accomplishments of our union with Amy in this new role.”
This past Fall, Gollinger was promoted to the Chief of Staff/ADBR position where her day-to-day responsibilities include managing all National Business Representatives, coordinating activities in the field, and managing national office activity, programming and logistics.
“I have been at NFFE for so long because NFFE has become my family,” Gollinger said. “Both the people that I work with at headquarters, the business reps and our members out in the field. It really feels like a family because we are working to take care of each other.”
Gollinger said that NFFE has allowed her to grow and progress in her field while also doing meaningful work.
“I just feel really grateful to do work that is making a difference and to get to work with so many incredible people. I can’t think of another work environment where I would get to do fulfilling work and also get to work with people I love and I’ve gotten to do that for 15 years … and I just feel like the luckiest gal in the world to have this job.”
With the beginning of a new administration, it is a whole new playing field for federal workers. But, Gollinger believes that there is no better place to be than NFFE in order to proactively defend worker’s rights and make the federal employee landscape a better place.
“The next four years is going to be a challenge – but it’s a challenge we’re prepared to meet,” Gollinger said.