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Officials forgo Supreme Court appeal in ...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 27, 2006 | Comments Off

By Karen Rutzick Source: GovExec.com Government officials on Monday night passed up their last chance to seek reversal of a court decision blocking proposed labor relations reforms at the Homeland Security Department. The solicitor general’s office, which brings cases to the Supreme Court on...

Bush issues order for 2.2 percent pay ra...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 21, 2006 | Comments Off

Source: GovExec.com By Karen Rutzick President Bush issued an executive order Thursday morning officially granting white-collar federal employees a 2.2 percent pay raise in 2007. Federal employees can expect the increase to be factored into their first paycheck of the new year, with the overall raise...

Unions Hope Democrats Will Counter GOP P...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 18, 2006 | Comments Off

As a member of the Democratic minority, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.) fought a Bush administration policy that increasingly opened up federal jobs to private contracting. Although he and colleagues had some success, Van Hollen said that when the 110th Congress takes over next month and the Democrats are...

Statement by AFL-CIO President John Swee...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 15, 2006 | Comments Off

WASHINGTON - November 15 - Today’s decision by the International Labor Organization (ILO) sends a powerful message to the Bush Administration that the international community rejects its attempts to limit the collective bargaining rights of government employees entrusted with protecting our nation’s...

SSA bracing for furlough as funding is d...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 15, 2006 | Comments Off

Federal Workers: Melissa Harris Source: The Baltimore Sun The Social Security Administration may still have to close offices nationwide for several days next year after the Republican-led Congress failed to act on nine of the 11 spending bills for 2007 and incoming Democratic leaders announced that...

GATES COMMITTED TO NSPS...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 12, 2006 | Comments Off

Source: Fednews-online A change in leadership at the Department of Defense will not lead to a departure from DoD’s migration to a new personnel system. Testimony released last week from recently-confirmed Defense Secretary Robert Gates reveals his stance on the contentious National Security Personnel...

NSPS APPEAL BEGINS TODAY...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 11, 2006 | Comments Off

Source: fednews-online.com Representatives from the Department of Defense and a coalition of unions are in court today contesting DoD’s pay-for-performance personnel system. In February 2006, a federal judge ruled that various parts of DoD’s National Security Personnel System violate the...

VA plans pay-for-performance effort in �...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 11, 2006 | Comments Off

By TIM KAUFFMAN Source: FederalTimes.com The Bush administration’s attempt to win congressional authority to expand pay reforms beyond the Defense and Homeland Security departments has stalled, but that hasn’t deterred some agencies from moving forward on their own. Several agencies, including the...

Internal e-mails indicate extreme unrest...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 3, 2006 | Comments Off

02/03/2006 @ 2:28 pm Filed by RAW STORY After receiving an internal e-mail indicating an extreme state of unrest at the Social Security Administration, Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) has written Speaker Hastert regarding the situation. Currently, nearly 50 million Americans rely on Social Security. Waxman...

Pay Raise Proposed by Bush Would Be Smal...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on December 1, 2006 | Comments Off

About 1.8 million federal employees would receive a 1.7 percent increase in their basic pay and a 0.5 percent average increase in their locality pay next year under a plan that President Bush sent to Congress yesterday, administration officials said. Bush recommended a 2.2 percent average raise in his...

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.