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119th Congress

Bills we support

AFGE Local 1224 supports the following federal legislation to protect the jobs, pay, and rights of government employees.

SERVICE Act

Requires a workforce-reduction impact analysis before agency cuts
HR 2906

Ensuring Agency Service Quality Act

Changes hiring authority from "may employ" to "shall employ"
HR 2905

No Tax Breaks for Union Busting Act

Ends tax subsidies for employer anti-union activities
HR 2692

Protect America's Workforce Act

Rescinds the executive order excluding agencies from federal labor-management relations
HR 2550

COST of Relocations Act

Mandates a cost-benefit analysis before agency relocations
HR 2470

Rights for the TSA Workforce Act

Extends collective bargaining to Transportation Security Officers
HR 2086 / S 997

Probationary Employee Bill

Allows wrongly removed probationary civil servants to return to work
HR 1989

MERIT Act

Reinstates unjustly terminated federal employees with back pay
HR 1835

Protect Veterans Jobs Act

Reinstates wrongly fired veteran federal employees
HR 1637 / S 914

Federal Firefighter's Families First Act

Includes overtime in federal firefighters' retirement calculations
HR 759

Federal Adjustment of Income Rates (FAIR) Act

Proposes a 4.3% pay raise — 3.3% across-the-board plus 1% locality
HR 493 / S 126

Saving the Civil Service Act

Protects the merit-based federal employment system
HR 1002 / S 399

Equal COLA Act

Aligns FERS retirement cost-of-living adjustments with CSRS
HR 866 / S 3194

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