Welcome to the AFGE Local 709 web page. Local 709 is the exclusive representative for the bargaining unit employees that work at FCI Englewood. This web page is intended as an alternate means of keeping the membership informed of local issues. UNITY is accomplished by participating in the meetings and interacting with your union brothers and sisters. Meetings are held at the Lake Henry Training Center the second Tuesday of the month at 4:15 p.m. Next meeting is: February 9, 2010 March 9. 2010  April 13, 2010 May 11, 2010 June 8, 2010 July 13, 2010 August 10, 2010 Union Member Rights and Officer Responsibilities under the Civil Service Reform Act  Labor Quote   "A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government."  Thomas Jefferson "The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor." William Cobbett quotes, (Pseudonym Peter Porcupine, English popular journalist, champion of traditional rural England against the Industrial Revolution, 1763-1835)    "The first thing a dictator does is abolish the free press. Next he abolishes the right of labor to go on strike. Strikes have been labor's weapon of progress in the century of our industrial civilization. Where the strike has been abolished ... labor is reduced to a state of medieval peonage, the standard of living lowered, the nation falls to subsistence level." George Seldes, Freedom of the Press, 1935      Top News Gross National Debt

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