AFGE 17 Wins 2013 Organizing Award
Friday, February 28, 2014(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
AFGE Local 17 – which represents workers
at the US Department of Veterans Affairs – is
the 2013 Evening with Labor
Organizing Award winner. Tickets for the March
15 event are still available:
email kmckirchy@dclaborarchives.org.
Local 17
scored a phenomenal 102.67% increase in
membership in 2013 and was recognized
by AFGE’s National VA Council for having
“helped make a very positive
difference” within NVAC, which represents all
200,000 plus AFGE-represented
employees at the VA. Local 17’s doubled
membership is “a sign of strength that
has not gone unnoticed by management,” says
president Bill Preston. NEXT: the 2013
Golden Picket Sign
Award winner. photo by Chris
Garlock/Union City