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Friday, June 27, 2008 – Position: Currently, federal employees under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) get no credit for unused sick time upon retirement. However, federal workers under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) do get credit for unused sick time. This discrepancy is unfair to some federal workers and it causes an incentive
Read moreFriday, June 27, 2008 – Position: The Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) privatization effort is not about making federal services more efficient; rather, it is designed to replace hundreds of thousands of federal employees with contractors. OMB is still forcing agencies to use privatization quotas, the A-76 process remains extremely pro-contractor, and OMB justifies
Read moreFriday, June 27, 2008 – Position: Over the last several years, Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) healthcare professionals have seen their collective bargaining rights practically eliminated. Agency management’s improperly broad interpretation of a certain provision in federal labor law has allowed them to circumvent the bargaining process on numerous critical issues, and the effect is
Read moreFriday, June 27, 2008 – The U.S. passport is the premier travel/identity document in the world – the “gold standard”, as some have said. U.S. passports – like U.S. currency – should not be outsourced to foreign companies. Outsourcing the manufacturing of the U.S. passport book covers compromises our nation’s security. Congress must put a
Read moreWashington, D.C., June 18, 2008 – The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) today welcomed the report by the Government Accounting Office (GAO) that cited serious flaws in the refueling tanker competition that led to a French-built Airbus being chosen over a U.S-manufactured Boeing 767. “This is a major victory for
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