AFGE LOCAL 3343

10/16/2026

Management didn't like our last image. We don't like what's happening to our members.
Protected leave and contract rights aren't optional. Every time management ignores them, SSA staffing, morale, and service to the public pay for it.

If you've been denied something the contract guarantees, contact your steward. We'll file the grievance.

10/14/2026

Today SSA announced a 3.6% COLA for the millions of Americans who rely on Social Security. They've earned it. Prices went up, so benefits go up.

The people who deliver those benefits get no COLA at all. After a 1% raise this year, the administration plans to freeze pay for most civilian federal employees in 2027, including the SSA employees who take claims, answer calls, and process benefits every day.

Meanwhile, some law enforcement personnel are slated for 3.8%. The administration says competitive pay is needed to recruit and retain them. If that's true for them, it's true for every federal employee who keeps the government running.

Congress can still fix this before January. Call your representative and tell them: no pay freeze for the federal workforce.

www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

10/09/2026

Advanced leave was how a coworker kept their job through cancer treatment. Management says it was 'unsustainable.' Ask them what they'd call a quarterly newsletter.
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10/09/2026

10/07/2026

SSA ended AWS agency-wide with almost no notice, despite a contract that runs to 2029. Staffing is at a 50-year low, advanced leave is gone, and now flexibility for medical and family care is too. Congress failed this agency.
Funding, staffing, oversight. Pick one and do it.

The agency’s top HR official says these changes are necessary to “deliver the service the public expects.” A union argues SSA violated its labor contract making this decision on its own.

09/28/2026

This Administration is looking to re-write 60+ years of EEOC regulations that will diminish independent decision making and due process in the EEO complaint process.

Save the photo below to your phone and click on the QR codes to learn about how these rules would impact workers who have been subjected to discrimination, and take action to submit comments to the Federal Register to stop this change from being enacted. Deadline for comments is tomorrow (9/28).

09/24/2026

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