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Acting AFGE President Revels in Wage, Recruiting Gains With Trump’s ‘Help’

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 1/17/20

These have been tumultuous times for the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest Federal workers union, which represents 700,000 civil servants all over the U.S. and its territories.

After three years of legal battles with the Trump administration over the union's right to exist and weathering the longest government shutdown in history, it closed out the year with big gains from Congress, according to Everett Kelley, AFGE’s national secretary-treasurer, who is serving as its interim president.

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