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The State Employees Attorneys Guild (SEAG) is a division of the Federation of Physicians & Dentists/Alliance of Healthcare & Professional Employees (FPD/AHPE), a non-profit organization representing public and private employees. The organization is dedicated to improving the working conditions of its members.

In 1993, a group of Florida state attorneys from Pensacola to Key West petitioned the Public Employees Relations Commission (PERC) for the right to organize SEAG. The State of Florida filed objections, arguing that state attorneys should not have the right to collectively bargain. The Attorney General didn’t want to give up its unilateral control over changes in our wages, benefits and working conditions.

From 1993 to 1999, SEAG successfully appealed to the Circuit Court, Appeals Court and the Florida Supreme Court. And on May 20, 1999, the Supreme Court ruled that public-employed attorneys have the constitutional right to organize a union.

So, for the purpose of protecting our rights as state employees and to promote our professional interests, SEAG was formed. As SEAG, we affiliated with the FPD/AHPE because it represents state-employed physicians, and we felt the issues they have with the state are akin to ours.

SEAG recognizes the critical relationship between professional employees and their employers: each has a profound effect and influence on the other and on the standards of quality and care within their professions. Achieving professional standards of quality in and of itself is a fundamental tenet of SEAG’s mission and goal.

SEAG, as a division of FPD/AHPE, is affiliated with the National Union of Hospital & Healthcare Employees (NUHHCE) and with the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME)/AFL-CIO. As such, SEAG is part of the largest union organization in the world, an organization which has been working for over fifty years to better the lives of its members and to achieve the dignity which, as professionals, they deserve.

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