How Outsourcing Destroyed Lives, Broke up Families at FAA
September 29, 2017
An AFGE local president detailed how outsourcing flight service functions destroyed lives and broke up families at the FAA.
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5 Things You Need to Know about the Latest Governmentwide Reorganization Efforts
September 22, 2017
The Trump administration has directed all agencies to create agency reorganization plan. Here are five things you need to know.
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Washington, D.C., Senate, Congress, Pay, Budget, Outsourcing , Privatization, The Insider, White House
VA Employees Demand Immediate Filling of 49,000 Vacancies at VA Hospitals Nationwide
September 08, 2017
Employees at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals have been staging a protest to demand that the 49,000 vacancies be filled immediately to ensure our veterans receive the care that they have earned.
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What Does Congress Have in Store for Defense Workers?
July 07, 2017
BRAC? Privatization? Personnel System? The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act discusses all these issues. Read on to find out how this bill affects you.
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7 Things Trump Wants to Privatize
June 05, 2017
The Trump administration is expanding its plan to privatize public assets and jobs. Here are seven things they want to privatize right now.
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Sweet Cookie, Soggy Deal
July 11, 2016
How a corporate American cookie giant is preparing to move its operations and eliminate 600 middle class workers. Here's how you can help stop them.
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Outsourcing
AFGE Pushes Agencies to Inventory Service Contracts
September 10, 2015
Agencies have until February 15, 2016 to submit their inventories of service contracts to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), according to a new OMB data call. The memo is for non-defense agencies only as the Defense Department is covered under separate legislation.
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Outsourcing , Privatization
DoD Is Cutting Cheapest Workforce in Haste to “Cut Costs”
September 09, 2015
The Department of Defense has a new goal: instead of reducing funding and staffing at its headquarters by 20%, it now wants to do a 25% cut. The problem is, the workforce it’s cutting is the cheapest among the three workforces.
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DoD’s Contractor Workforce Is Either As Big or Bigger Than Its Civilian Workforce
September 04, 2015
The Department of Defense had at least 641,428 contractor employees working on various projects in 2014, according to a new service contractor inventory released this week. That number, however, is on the lower end as it is not based on actual hours and does not include the numbers from four major components.
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Under Full Sequestration, Army Could Cut Additional 6,000 Civilian Jobs on Top of Initial 17,000
July 31, 2015
Contractors are about to have a field day as the latest analysis shows the Army, under full sequestration, will have to cut an additional 6,000 civilian positions on top of the 17,000 earlier reported.
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Senate Passes Fast Track BillNew Page
June 26, 2015
Sixty senators – the bare minimum needed – voted to give the administration authority to negotiate the horrendous Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement with 11 other nations without congressional amendments. Thirty eight senators voted against it. The so-called Fast Track bill passed the House last week.
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Senate, Outsourcing
Is Your Agency Contracting Out Government Jobs?
June 06, 2015
AFGE has updated a new guide to help you spot those problem contracts and more.
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Budget, Outsourcing
Activists Storm U.S. Trade Building Demanding Full Disclosure of Secret Trade Deal
June 06, 2015
Undeterred by a June shower, labor activists from across the country on Tuesday gathered at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. before marching to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), demanding to see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a secret trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 other countries.
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Activists Storm U.S. Trade Building Demanding Full Disclosure of Secret Trade Deal
June 05, 2015
Undeterred by a June shower, labor activists from across the country on Tuesday gathered at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. before marching to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), demanding to see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a secret trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 other countries.
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Washington, D.C., Outsourcing
The Reason Politicians Support Trans-Pacific Partnership
May 29, 2015
Yes, it is what you think. The rich are influential and vocal, and most of them benefit from free trade. So politicians are kowtowing to them even though free trade deals like NAFTA have killed one million jobs and substantially increased the income gap between the rich and everyone else.
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Workers' Rights, Outsourcing
