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		<title>AFGE Press Releases</title>
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		<description>The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union representing 600,000 federal and D.C. government workers nationwide and overseas. Workers in virtually all functions of government at every federal agency depend upon AFGE for legal representation, legislative advocacy, technical expertise and informational services.</description>
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		<copyright>Copyright 2009, American Federation of Government Employees</copyright>
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			<title><![CDATA[AFGE's Fight Against Controversial Pentagon Personnel System to Be Discussed on "Inside Government"]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON-The American Federation of Government Employees' (AFGE) ongoing fight against the Pentagon's misguided pay-for-performance system will be addressed this week on AFGE's &quot;Inside Government&quot; radio show. The show will air on Friday, June 26 at 10 a.m. EDT nationwide on Federal News Radio at www.federalnewsradio.com and 1500 AM in the Washington, D.C., area.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[AFGE National President Testifies Before DoD Task Group]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[John Gage, AFGE national president, testified today before the Defense Business Board Task Group, which has been asked by the Department of Defense to review the controversial National Security Personnel System, (NSPS). AFGE called on the Task Force to immediately terminate NSPS and move the employees back to the General Schedule.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TSA Must Immediately Suspend Flawed Skills Testing, Says AFGE]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The American Federation of Government Employees today called on TSA to take immediate action after hearing from myriad members at the Transportation Security Administration about unusually high failure rates on the Practical Skills Evaluations portion of the agency's Performance Accountability and Standards System.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Social Security Administration Offices Exposed to H1N1]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[WISCONSIN - The Social Security Administration has taken no action to close two offices in Wisconsin despite several of its employees being exposed to the H1N1 flu virus.  &quot;This has become a matter of public safety and SSA needs to act,&quot; stated Loni Schultz, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 1346, which represents employees in several SSA offices in the Wisconsin area. &quot;We have an employee who was diagnosed with swine flu on June 16th. This employee had been to multiple offices prior to, and on the day of being diagnosed, including the Milwaukee DT Reuss Building and the Waukesha, Wisconsin SSA office. There now are four employees at the Waukesha, Wisconsin office with suspected cases.  It is appalling that SSA has taken no action to close or sanitize these offices, or notify the public of this exposure.&quot;]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Swine Flu Outbreak at Miami Immigration Center to Be Discussed on AFGE Radio Show]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON-A recent swine flu outbreak at the Krome Service Processing Center in Miami, Fla. will be addressed this week on AFGE's &quot;Inside Government&quot; radio show. The show will air on Friday, June 19 at 10 a.m. EDT nationwide on Federal News Radio at www.federalnewsradio.com and 1500 AM in the Washington, D.C., area.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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