AFGE Voices Support for Same-Sex Domestic Partner Benefits Bill
AFGE Action News July 13, 2009
AFGE President John Gage last week submitted a testimony in favor of H.R. 2517, the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009. The bill would grant same-sex domestic partners of federal employees equal benefits given to spouses of married federal employees. The union strongly supports the introduction of S. 1102 by Senator Joe Lieberman,I-Conn., and H.R. 2517 by Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.
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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.