• Who secured the largest pay raise in four decades, averaging 5.2% in 2024 - following 4.6% in 2023, which was the largest increase in two decades. This was a total of 9.8% in two years.

• Who has committed our Union to a diverse and inclusion workforce representing all Americans. A Union dedicated to Equality and Justice for all.
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• Who got President Biden to fulfill his promise to AFGE to ensure that TSO’s receive Title 5 treatment. As a result, we won for TSOs, an average pay increase of 31%. We also used a new collective bargaining right to win a new contract with rights to appeal adverse actions.
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• Who defeated the VA AIR Closure Commission that would have shuttered or downsized hundreds of VA facilities across the country. This act alone saved tens of thousands of jobs from privatization.
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• Who neutralized the VA accountability act and restored for Rice all (VA) employees.
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• Who got Congress to repeal the two-year probationary for DOD civilians so all newly hired DOD civilians are under the same one-year probationary period used at most other federal agencies.
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• Who secured a new master agreement for 300,000 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs in 202 that retains current workplace agreement and modernizes the VA hiring procedures.
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• Who stopped the BOP from using private prisons, saving thousands of jobs from privatization.
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• Who worked with the leadership of the Social Security General Committee to get a Pro-Union Social Security, Commissioner, confirmed, a new collective bargaining agreement, and a commitment to improve staffing and morale at the agency.
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• Who forced the Department of Education back to the negotiating table to restore employees rights after the Federal Labor Relations Authority found the department guilty of 14 violations of law under the previous administration.
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• Who got signed into law legislation passed by Congress that grants full retirement benefits, to first responders and law enforcement officers injured on the job. 

  
  
• Who won provisions in the PACT ACT that allows higher pay and new jobs for treating veterans exposed to toxic waste.
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• Who delivered higher Locality pay to 32,000 employees in four new locations - Fresno, California; Reno, Nevada; Rochester, New York, and Spokane, Washington - plus hundreds of employees at 43 existing localities as part of changes to the compensation system that took effect in 2024.
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• Who got 25% retention bonuses approved for correctional officers at several severely understaffed federal prisons, helping bridge a significant pay gap as we work for higher salaries across the board.
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• Who got OPM to issue a regulation that will make it much harder to establish schedule F employees in the future.
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• Who helped thousands of federal and D.C. government employees to get student loan forgiveness.

• Who secured numerous AFGE priorities in the 2023 omnibus, appropriation bill, including a 22% increase in VA healthcare funding, limiting DOD‘s ability to cap the size of the civilian workforce, continuing the long-standing band on outsourcing federal jobs, and allowing retiring law enforcement officers at the Bureau of Prison to make penalty-free withdrawals from their retirement savings once they reach 25 years of service or 50 years of age, whichever is earlier.

• Who continued to break organizing records in 2023, registering our fastest growth rate in 13 years (5% growth). With a net gain of over 16,000 new dues-paying members.

• Who exceeded our ambitious organizing goals and grew to 300,000 dues-paying members five months earlier than hoped for, and will keep the momentum going.

• Who, expanded our representation of federa and D.C. government employees, including winning the rights to represent most of the 45,000 healthcare workers who have transferred to the Defense Health Agency (DHA) and winning an election in 2023 to represent more than 200 employees at the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

• Who was successful in stopping the Government Shutdown in 2023. Reestablished integrity, and pride in AFGE membership.

• Who will continue to lead AFGE into a secure future.

• Who stepped onto the ship as it was sinking, took the helm, and steadied the ship.

• Who navigated through uncharted waters of a pandemic, and an unfriendly administration.

• Who under my administration was instrumental in securing the White House, Senate, and the House of Representatives putting AFGE back on firm political foundation. 

• Who is the Leader and 'ONLY GUY" that is fully qualified for the position of President of AFGE. A person with 43+ years of service to the membership and the American people.

• Who is the only candidate with the experience of serving as President of AFGE under both sides of the aisle.

• Who has served as Shop Steward, Chief Steward, Vice President, Local President, National Vice President, National Secretary, Treasurer, and President.

"I AM THE GUY"

Who persuaded the President of the United States to...

• Rescind the May 2018 executive orders that restricted collective bargaining, appeal rights and official time for representation.
  

• Establish Labor Management Forums (Partnerships) inside federal and D.C. government agencies that will accomplish two things:

• Expand registered apprenticeship programs in the skilled trades for federal and D.C. government employees (this comes from the President’s task force on worker empowerment).

• Require that agencies form Labor-Management “forums” or “committees” that allow pre-decisional involvement from unions, and require agencies submit their forum plans to OPM. 

• End the attack on federal scientists by encouraging the President to sign an executive order shielding them from political influence.

• Rescind the Schedule F executive order that our union characterized as the most profound undermining of the civil service in our lifetimes.

• Name a new chair and vice chair of the EEOC, replacing the former chair who recently pushed through a contentious union-busting rule on a party-line vote.

• Eliminate the previous administration’s ban on diversity and inclusion training, reopening the doorway for us to treat each other with dignity and respect.

• Expand paid family leave for DC government employees following passage of AFGE-supported bill.
  

• Remove union busters from the Federal Service Impasses Panel, allowing the appointment of members who will fairly resolve labor contract disputes Rescind the memorandum delegating to the Secretary of Defense the ability to deprive civilian employees of their collective bargaining rights described in Chapter 71 of Title 5.

• Provide 15 weeks of emergency paid leave related to COVID-19 for federal and D.C. government employees.
  
  
• Establish an automatic presumption of workplace illness through the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act for federal and D.C. government employees contracting COVID while on the job.

• Restore the $755 million in funding that DC was denied in the 2020 CARES Act.

• Direct the Office of Personnel Management to explore ways to give federal and D.C. government employees time off to vote.

• Appoint a new acting general counsel at the Federal Labor Relations Authority, Charlotte Dye, paving the way for FLRA to address a backlog of disputes and prosecute agencies that violated their own policies and labor laws.

• Establish the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment to improve the federal government’s policies and practices so that more workers have access to unions and can bargain collectively with their employers.

• AFGE has been scoring wins for federal and D.C. government employees.