Local 1923 News Release...
Posted by admin in News You Can Use on February 28, 2006 | Comments Off
Congratulations to all bargaining unit Department of Information Management (DOIM) employees located at the army base in Ft. Detrick, Maryland. They now have their very first negotiated Labor/Management Agreement.
DOIM officials were initially hesitant to begin negotiations last July because of pending...
NSPS’ LABOR COMPONENTS STRUCK DOWN...
Posted by admin in News You Can Use on February 27, 2006 | Comments Off
Source: fednews-online
A federal judge has ruled that various parts of the Department of Defense’s National Security Personnel System violate the law that created the pay-for-performance based personnel system.
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan issued a ruling Monday ordering DoD to halt...
Judge overturns Defense labor relations ...
Posted by admin in News You Can Use on February 27, 2006 | Comments Off
By Karen Rutzick
Source: Gov Exec.com
A judge ruled Monday that the Defense Department’s new personnel system unlawfully diminishes collective bargaining, blocking the labor relations portion of the system from moving forward.
Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of...
SSA Bows to AFGE Pressure on Hurricane A...
Posted by admin in News You Can Use on February 21, 2006 | Comments Off
WASHINGTON —AFGE’s National Social Security Council today announced that the Social Security Administration (SSA) has bowed to AFGE pressure to provide financial support to employees who are victims of Hurricane Katrina. According to Council President Witold Skwierczynski, because SSA failed in...
Senate Democrats call for more generous ...
Posted by admin in News You Can Use on February 17, 2006 | Comments Off
By Karen Rutzick
Ten Senate Democrats called Thursday for a higher military pay raise than the 2.2 percent President Bush proposed in his fiscal 2007 budget, opening the door once again for a battle to grant civilian federal employees pay parity.
The senators defended their position in a letter to Budget...
DoD issues new rules for employee apprai...
Posted by admin in News You Can Use on February 17, 2006 | Comments Off
By TIM KAUFFMAN
Defense Department supervisors will be required to rate employees based primarily on job objectives set out at the beginning of the year. And they will be rated themselves based on at least one supervisory objective. These are two elements of the department’s newly revised performance...
DOD TWEAKS NSPS...
Posted by admin in News You Can Use on February 15, 2006 | Comments Off
Source: FedNews Online
The Department of Defense has altered some of the core components of its National Security Personnel System.
NSPS is a performance-based human capital system that would affect approximately 700,000 DoD civilian employees’ pay and classification, performance management, hiring,...
MAXHR ORAL ARGUMENTS BEGIN IN APRIL...
Posted by admin in News You Can Use on February 10, 2006 | Comments Off
Source: FedNews Online
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit set April 6 as the date for oral arguments on an appeal of a district court decision blocking the Department of Homeland Security from implementing its new personnel regulations system.
The case on the personnel regulations...
Cuts in Social Security appear likely to...
Posted by admin in News You Can Use on February 9, 2006 | Comments Off
GOP leaders not supportive of plan
BY DAVID ESPO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans on Wednesday shunned President George W. Bush’s election-year call to cut Social Security benefits, and the Senate Finance Committee chairman accused the administration of seeking to end...
Pay parity offer leaves less room to bar...
Posted by admin in News You Can Use on February 6, 2006 | Comments Off
By Karen Rutzick
Source: Fednews Online
Congressional support for a 2007 pay raise that exceeds President Bush’s 2.2 percent request may wane because, in a break from past years, the president’s proposal grants military-civilian pay parity.
President Bush’s 2007 budget, released Monday,...
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Cynthia Ennis
Cynthia Ennis has served as Executive Vice President of Local 1923 for over 20 years and was elected as President in August, 2003. Cynthia is fervently committed and dedicated to the labor movement.
In her position, Cynthia will move full speed ahead and address some of the serious challenges currently facing the federal workforce. Issues such as personnel reform, contracting out, pay parity, the stripping away of bargaining rights, and continually rising health insurance premiums are just to name a few. Cynthia intends on tackling these and many other issues in order to provide federal employees the rights they so richly deserve.