TAKE ACTION: Urge House Members to Protect America’s Workforce

The Equal COLA Act

• What it would do: End the disparity in annual cost-of-living adjustments for employees under the older Civil Service Retirement System and the newer Federal Employees Retirement System.

Saving the Civil Service Act

• What it would do: Prevent the politicization of the non-partisan civil service by limiting the conversion of federal jobs from the competitive service to the excepted service without congressional approval.

Federal Adjustment of Income Rates Act

• What it would do: Help narrow the nearly 25% pay gap between federal and non-federal workers by providing a 4.3% pay raise in January 2026 that would be divided between a 3.3% across-the-board increase and a 1% locality increase that would vary geographically.

Federal Firefighter's Families First Act

• What it would do: Include mandatory overtime hours worked into the calculation of retirement benefits to ensure federal firefighters are eligible for the same full and fair retirement benefits as their state and local counterparts.

• What it would do: Reinstate veterans who were fired from their jobs a during the Trump Administration and DOGE purge of federal employees.

Model Employee Reinstatement for Ill-advised Termination (MERIT) Act

• What it would do: Rep. LaMonica McIver (NJ-10) introduced the in the House to reinstate federal employees who were unjustly fired by Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative that targeted federal workers. In addition to rehiring these workers, the MERIT Act gives them the back pay they deserve.

Probationary Employee Bill

• What it would do: If enacted would allow hardworking civil servants to return to the important work of serving the American people.

Rights for the TSA Workforce Act

• What it would do: Enshrine into law that Transportation Security Officers receive the same basic rights afforded to all other federal workers, such as collective bargaining rights, and ensure that TSOs can advocate for workplace improvements without fear of retaliation.
• Send a letter to Congress to protect TSO pay and rights. 

COST of Relocations Act 

• What it would do: Require a cost-benefit analysis to be submitted to Congress to ensure that any attempt to move federal agencies is appropriately analyzed to guarantee it is in the best interest of the taxpayer and the agency’s mission.

Protect America's Workforce Act

• What it would do: Legislation would overturn Executive Orders that purport to end collective bargaining at numerous federal agencies and reinstate all collective bargaining agreements that were in effect on March 26, 2025.
• Send a letter to Congress about the Discharge Petiton.

No Tax Breaks for Union Busting Act

• What it would do: Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to end the tax subsidy for employer efforts to influence their workers' exercise of their rights around labor organizations and engaging in collective action.

Ensuring Agency Service Quality Act

• What it would do: Amend 5 USC 3101 ("Each Executive agency, military department, and the government of the District of Columbia may employ such number of employees of the various classes recognized by chapter 51 of this title as Congress may appropriate for from year to year."), the general authority provision that allows the government to employ, from a 'may employ' to a '*shall* employ', and requires an agency to justify their inability or refusal to comply with the requirement.

SERVICE Act

• What it would do: Prevent an agency from reducing its workforce by 5% or greater in a given fiscal year without itself conducting a full impact analysis of those cuts on the agency's ability to carry out its mission, and GAO evaluating the accuracy of that evaluation.