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		<title>Cold Pay Gets Hot Win!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[United States Naval Academy Arbitration Win
 
AFGE 4th District Staff Attorney, Hampton Stennis, AFGE 4th District National Representative, John Swann, AFGE Local 1923 Vice President, Edward Gough and AFGE Local 1923 Chief Steward, Clyde Carr were successful in a recent arbitration involving food service employees at the United States Naval Academy.
 
According to the union, the Agency violated the Collective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Pay Gets Hot Win!</title>
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AFGE 4th District Staff Attorney, Hampton Stennis, AFGE 4th District National Representative, John Swann, AFGE Local 1923 Vice President, Edward Gough and AFGE Local 1923 Chief Steward, Clyde Carr were successful in a recent arbitration involving food service employees at the United States Naval Academy.
 
According to the union, the Agency violated the Collective Bargaining Agreement by failing to pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA/Wallops Flight Facility Violated the Contract During Last Years Snow Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to AFGE Local 1923 Associate General Counsel, Richard Klein and Local 1923 Vice President, Ben Robbins in a recent arbitration win at the NASA facility in Wallops Island.
 
A grievance was filed when the administration denied administrative leave for a delayed base opening due to a snow storm over the preceding weekend.  The Center granted administrative leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA/Wallops Flight Facility Violated the Contract During Last Years Snow Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to AFGE Local 1923 Associate General Counsel, Richard Klein and Local 1923 Vice President, Ben Robbins in a recent arbitration win at the NASA facility in Wallops Island.
A grievance was filed when the administration denied administrative leave for a delayed base opening due to a snow storm over the preceding weekend.  The Center granted administrative leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CLAIMS REPRESENTATIVE WRONGFULLY SUSPENDED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Agency ordered to award grievant back pay and interest.
 
AFGE Local 1923 Attorney, James W. Richard II was successful in a recent arbitration involving a Social Security Claims Representative.
 
After 32 years of service, the Agency issued a 45 day suspension for four alleged acts of inappropriate behavior pertaining to customer service type infractions. 
 
The Union contends the Agency had not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CLAIMS REPRESENTATIVE WRONGFULLY SUSPENDED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Agency ordered to award grievant back pay and interest.
AFGE Local 1923 Attorney, James W. Richard II was successful in a recent arbitration involving a Social Security Claims Representative.
After 32 years of service, the Agency issued a 45 day suspension for four alleged acts of inappropriate behavior pertaining to customer service type infractions.
The Union contends the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House proposes 0.5 percent pay increase for federal workers</title>
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By Ed O&#8217;Keefe

Source: Washington Post
January 6, 2012
 
The White House will propose a 0.5 percent pay increase for civilian federal employees as part of its 2013 budget proposal, according to two senior administration officials familiar with the plans.The modest across-the-board pay jump would be the first increase for federal workers since before a two-year freeze began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncertainty remains about federal pay, benefits in payroll tax cut bill</title>
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Tuesday &#8211; 12/20/2011, 8:09am  ET
By Jolie Lee
@jleewfed
Federal News Radio

The House is scheduled to vote today on how it will proceed with a Senate-passed bill to extend the payroll tax cutexpiring at the end of this year.
If Congress does not pass the tax cut extension, the payroll tax would rise 2 percentage points on Jan. 1.
With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal pay freeze still on table in payroll tax cut talks?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday &#8211; 12/19/2011, 9:27am  ET
By Jolie Lee
@jleewfed
Federal News Radio

Federal employees were safe from another year of a pay freeze and changes to their annuity formula in the two-month payroll tax cut bill passed by the Senate this weekend. But now House Republican leaders are shunning the bipartisan bill, wanting to write their own version.
Without congressional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.afgelocal1923.org/2011/12/19/federal-pay-freeze-still-on-table-in-payroll-tax-cut-talks/</link>
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		<title>Congress reaches tentative deal to avoid government shutdown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The $1-trillion plan would last through September 2012. Republicans and Democrats are still struggling with how to extend a payroll tax break.


By Lisa Mascaro, Washington BureauDecember 15, 2011, 8:57 p.m.

Weary of one last round of brinkmanship before the holidays, Congress reached a tentative deal late Thursday on a $1-trillion spending bill that would avert a [...]]]></description>
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