More Cuts to DoD Civilian Workforce Likely If This Measure Survives the Senate
May 29, 2015
The Senate Armed Services Committee this week voted to keep in place a cut in funding to the Department of Defense Headquarters.
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VA Cemetery Caught Red-Handed in Illegal Outsourcing Scandal
May 08, 2015
The Department of Veterans Affairs Marion National Cemetery in Indiana was hoping to quietly contract out some cemetery work traditionally done by VA employees. But thanks to AFGE Local 1020, that didn’t happen.
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South Dakota Senator Pushes for Mass Outsourcing of Federal Jobs
May 01, 2015
Sen. John Thune of South Dakota and Rep. John Duncan of Tennessee this week introduced a bill (The Freedom From Government Competition Act, S. 1116 and H.R. 2044) that would require the government to hand over control of its public functions to private businesses.
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Outsourcing
TPP Is a Bad Deal for Workers – Including Government Employees
April 24, 2015
As the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees will soon vote to allow the administration to fast track a bad international trade deal being negotiated behind closed doors, AFGE activists on Monday joined hundreds of activists from other organizations to make it clear that we will not let this happen without a fight.
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Stop The TPP
April 24, 2015
Watching the discussion around the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) gives President Cox a nasty sense of déjà vu.
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TPP Is a Bad Deal for Workers – Including Government Employees
April 21, 2015
As the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees are set to vote to allow the administration to fast track a bad international trade deal being negotiated behind closed doors, AFGE activists on Monday joined hundreds of activists from other organizations to make it clear that we will not let this happen without a fight.
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AFGE Rallies to Stop the Fast Track on the TPP
April 17, 2015
AFGE joined more than a thousand other labor and environmental activists Wednesday in a rally to stop the Fast Tracking of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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Which Lawmaker Seems Very Interested in Outsourcing Your Job?
April 10, 2015
As it turns out, this person was born in Maryland, which has one of the highest shares of federal jobs in the country. But Rep. Diane Black doesn’t represent the state she was born in. She represents Tennessee where she moved to after getting an associate’s degree in nursing.
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Outsourcing
VA Caught Red-Handed Wasting Tax Dollars on IT Contract That Could Be Done Cheaper In-house
April 03, 2015
AFGE Local 1745 in Texas demanded that the Department of Veterans Affairs immediately end an illegal contract of information technology work in the Project Management Accountability System Business Office after it became clear from a VA inspector general report that the agency violated both sourcing law and policy and intentionally reduced the number of civilian workers in order to contract out the work.
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VA, Outsourcing
How the Federal Government’s Burning Away Your Money in 1 Chart
March 20, 2015
Of all the three workforces that do work for the federal government – federal civilian employees, military personnel, and contractors – federal civilian employees are the cheapest, often by two to three times. But because of politics, agencies are forced to cut down on the use of civilian employees and give the work to contractors.
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Report: Federal Contract Spending Through the Roof
March 13, 2015
Our government and its workforce are there to create safe, thriving communities that benefit everyone.
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AFGE VA Local’s Push Back Got Management to Scrap Outsourcing Plan
March 06, 2015
A few weeks ago, the AFGE Local at the Phoenix VA Medical Center was asked by management to agree to contracting out Scheduling Clerks positions and even drafted a Memorandum of Understanding for them to sign.
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VA, Outsourcing
We Need a Speed Bump, Not Fast Track
February 27, 2015
Twenty years ago, NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement) was sold to Americans as a job-creating, economy-stimulating trade deal. But 20 years later, we know we have been duped. NAFTA cost the United States more than 1 million manufacturing jobs because of imports from Canada and Mexico or the relocation of factories to those countries. And now the administration and some in Congress are seeking authority to fast track international trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – which is being negotiated and modeled after NAFTA but involves 11 Asian and Latin American countries.
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Business Leaders Throw Contractors an Unexpected Curveball
January 23, 2015
The Defense Business Board (DBB), which provides Pentagon officials with private sector perspectives, consists of business leaders and consultants, some of whom have been contractors to the Department of Defense.
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DoD, Outsourcing
A. Philip Randolph Institute Targets Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Fast Track Trade Authority
January 14, 2015
The president and executive board of the A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI) joined a growing chorus of civil, labor and human rights organizations calling for major changes to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The AFL-CIO’s senior constituency group is also opposing the Fast Track authority that would eliminate the ability of elected officials and constituency groups to recommend and implement necessary changes.
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