Unions devise ‘Plan B’ in De...
Posted by admin in News You Can Use on February 6, 2006 | Comments Off
Source: GovExec.com
By Karen Rutzick
A coalition of labor unions is developing a “Plan B” in case the group’s legal challenge to the Defense Department’s new personnel system fails.
The United DoD Workers Coalition has hired Joseph Swerdzewski, former general counsel of the Federal...
Drug programs stress Social Security...
Posted by admin in News You Can Use on February 4, 2006 | Comments Off
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Los Angeles Times
Inside Bay Area
WASHINGTON — Social Security has been so overwhelmed helping seniors cope with the new Medicare drug program that other services are starting to suffer, a senior government official said in an internal e-mail released Friday.
A large backlog...
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