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AFGE Family,

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will be holding a public teleconference to strip the rights of federal workers facing discrimination to get help from their union representative. EEOC's lame duck Chair Janet Dhillon thinks she can get away with shoving through this union-busting rule in her last days at the agency's helm, but AFGE members like you will prove her wrong.

On January 7, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. ET, we need you to dial into the meeting to shame EEOC into doing the right thing.

Currently, federal employees with an EEO claim can pick a representative of their choice and pursue the case on duty time, that is, during business hours while being paid. But if this rule goes into effect union representatives will be singled out as the only employees who cannot assist on duty time. This is union-busting — a blatant attempt to delegitimize our union and take away our ability to represent our members.

Click here to urge EEOC leadership to VOTE NO on changing the law.

EEOC’s mission to bar workplace discrimination is especially critical now in the middle of a national reckoning on racial injustice, a viral #MeToo movement, and a pandemic. Yet, Chair Dhillon in her waning days in charge of the EEOC wants to give a gift to bad managers: make it easier to get away with discrimination by hamstringing the Union.

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Chair Dhillon and EEOC Commissioners Keith Sonderling, Andrea Lucas, Charlotte Burrows, and Jocelyn Samuels should vote “No,” on changing the law to take away an employee’s choice of representative thereby making it harder to file a federal EEO complaint. Historically EEOC’s laws and regulations have expanded rights, not taken them away.


Please mark your calendar — the public can dial into EEOC's public meeting on January 7, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. ET AFGE will send you the dial-in instructions the day before so you can call in.

Members of the public will not have an opportunity to speak, but can hear the proceedings. I urge you to dial into this meeting. EEOC’s leadership must know that concerned citizens are bearing witness to their actions. Their vote is their legacy and we will be listening.

In Solidarity,

Dr. Everett Kelley
AFGE National President

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