FOCUS ON AFSA AS A UNION AT 50
Once a polite diplomats’ society, AFSA is now a financially and politically strong union and a player on the wider stage—with the administration, Congress, and the American public.
BY THOMAS BOYATT
In becoming a union, AFSA gained new powers to influence the personnel system and safeguard the interests of career diplomats.
BY JOHN K. NALAND
A second-generation USAID FSO and AFSA vice president explains why the USAID Foreign Service needs a union and lays out workforce challenges facing the agency today.
BY JASON SINGER
FEATURE
Foreign Service crisis management can involve your own family. A career FSO and ambassador recalls his harrowing experience in Cambodia, and the lessons learned.
BY KENNETH M. QUINN
PERSPECTIVES
You Are AFSA: AFSA Needs You
BY ERIC RUBIN
The AFSA Union at 50
BY SHAWN DORMAN
Schedule F: Let’s Deprofessionalize Government and Make America Irrelevant Again
BY DENNIS JETT
Holding History in the Vatican’s Secret Archives
BY VINCENT CHIARELLO
Jerusalem, Israel
BY MICHAEL LONGHAUSER
DEPARTMENTS
AFSA NEWS
Focusing on Our Specialist Members
BY TOM YAZDGERDI
USAID’s Workforce Report to Congress
BY JASON SINGER
AFSA’s Good Works: Scholarship Program
BY JOHN K. NALAND
Time to Modernize Our Collective Bargaining Agreement
BY LISA AHRAMJIAN
Communication: A Two-Way Street Named Action
BY CHARLES RANADO
