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Democrats, unions say push to freeze fed...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on June 22, 2010 | Comments Off
By Ed O’Keefe Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, June 22, 2010; B03 Source: Fedsmith.com   Ongoing efforts to freeze or cut federal pay to help control U.S. spending are demoralizing and bad for recruitment, according to Democratic lawmakers and unions. Senate Republicans last week failed...
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New benefits for partners - gay and stra...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on June 22, 2010 | Comments Off
By STEPHEN LOSEY | Last Updated: June 20, 2010 Source:Fedtimes.com   For the first time, the Office of Personnel Management is extending new benefits to the unmarried domestic partners of straight federal employees, as it has done previously for gay employees’ partners. As of July 14, unmarried...
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AFGE ACTION NETWORK...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on June 17, 2010 | Comments Off
June 16, 2010 Republican lawmakers are at it again — attempting to freeze federal pay and cap the number of government workers. This time, Senator John Thune (R-SD) is proposing an amendment to the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act that freezes federal pay, caps the number of government...
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Freeze Your Pay? They’re Trying!...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on June 16, 2010 | Comments Off
AFGE ACTION NEWS June 6, 2010 Republican leaders in the House and Senate want to freeze your pay.  Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) offered an amendment last week to the emergency supplemental spending bill that would have frozen your pay in 2011. The very next day, Representative...
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Telework bill comes up short in the Hous...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on May 11, 2010 | Comments Off
By Elizabeth Newell Source: Govexec.com May 6, 2010  A bill aimed at helping federal employees spend more time working outside the office hit a wall in the House on Thursday.   House members debated the 2009 Telework Improvements Act on Wednesday and voted on Thursday 268-147 to pass it. But the...
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SSA Contract Update: Temporary, Probatio...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on May 11, 2010 | Comments Off
May 11, 2010 The Social Security Administration wants to radically change those parts of the National Contract that deal with temporary, probationary, part-time and seasonal workers but the Union is working very hard to extend employee rights and not reduce them.   Witold Skwierczynski, the Chief...
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THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EM...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on May 4, 2010 | Comments Off
Nation’s Largest Federal Employees Union Reaches Quarter Million Mark April 29, 2010   (WASHINGTON)—The American Federation of Government Employees, the nation’s largest federal and D.C. employee union representing more than 600,000 government workers, today announced that it passed the quarter...
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AFGE Week in Review (May 3, 2010)...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on May 3, 2010 | Comments Off
AFGE Membership Reaches the 250,000 Mark: AFGE’s membership is continuing to grow in record numbers, and as of April, 2010, the active membership is 252,630, an increase of 2,804 members since February. According to the AFL-CIO membership report issued at the March 2010 Executive Council meeting,...
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OPM works with Congress to speed health ...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on April 28, 2010 | Comments Off
By STEPHEN LOSEY | Last Updated: April 26, 2010 Source: Federaltimes.com   The Office of Personnel Management is working with Congress to implement the health reform law early by allowing health insurance coverage of employees’ adult dependent children up to age 26 before Jan. 1. If current laws...
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Almost half of NSPS employees to be in n...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on April 26, 2010 | Comments Off
April 23, 2010 Source: Fedtimes.com by Stephen Losey The Defense Department hopes to have nearly 47 percent of National Security Personnel System employees transitioned back to the General Schedule by the end of June. The Pentagon had transferred 6,918 employees out of NSPS as of April 15, according...
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