AFGE activists stood in silence for 20 minutes at the Hart Senate building at noon Tuesday -- 1 minute for every month since union-busting executive orders were issued. Hundreds government workers from across the country are in Washington for the American Federation of Government Employees’ annual legislative conference. The “Stand Up, Stand In” action raised awareness of “how this administration is hurting federal employees, federal agencies, and the American public by systematically stripping workers of their collective bargaining rights, politicizing the work of non-partisan civil servants, and understaffing agencies to justify further cuts and outsourcing,” said AFGE.