Medical personnel from Ramstein AB, Germany transfer wounded service members from a KC-135 aircraft to buses that will move them to other medical facilities in the area including Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Oct 20, 2010. (Air Force photo/TSgt Wayne Clark) Image: Air Force
The AFGE union has said it is creating an “at-large” local for federal employees stationed in Europe, where it said there are some 10,000 employees who are eligible for union representation but currently are not represented.
“Membership in the new at-large local is open to federal employees throughout Europe at any agency who are not already represented by an AFGE local and are under the general schedule, wage grade, or non-appropriated fund pay systems. Most of these employees work for the Defense Department at military hospitals, child care centers, commissaries and exchanges, as firefighters, and in combat support and logistics,” it said.
The union currently represents what it termed “small pockets” of federal employees working in Europe. It said the approach to the new local mirrors its work to organize TSA employees after that agency’s creation.
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