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July 15, 2013
Thousands of letters poured into Capitol Hill this month from federal workers across all 50 states as NFFE-IAM members and others demanded Congress deliver a solution to reckless Defense furloughs. Now it…
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July 13, 2013
Late last month, NFFE and other unions joined a bipartisan group of 31 members of Congress in requesting that Defense cancel furloughs for nearly 180,000 Working Capital Fund (WCF) employees. This week,…
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July 9, 2013
While Congress was on vacation the week before the 4th of July holiday, thousands of NFFE-IAM members and their fellow federal workers were taking action. The Furlough Red Zone Campaign, launched by…
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July 9, 2013
Lakewood, CO (July 9, 2013) – Federal employee furloughs have doubled the amount of the Federal Employee Education & Assistance Fund’s emergency assistance loans just in the month of June. The program…
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July 1, 2013
Starting July 8th, mandatory furloughs for upwards of 700,000 Department of Defense workers will go into effect. Each worker is required to take 11 unpaid furlough days – one per…
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July 1, 2013
This year’s second edition of the National Federation of Federal Employees’ (NFFE) quarterly newsletter, the Federal Employee, is now available! Featuring a detailed view of the updated organizing and recruiting strategic…
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June 28, 2013
Last week in Washington, Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) introduced a bill, the Locality Pay Area Equity Act(H.R. 2450), to address an unfairness in pay for many blue collar federal employees throughout…
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June 26, 2013
A bipartisan group of 31 House members sent a letter to Department of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently demanding answers on the proposed furloughs of thousands of Defense Working Capital…
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June 24, 2013
Budget cuts, staff reductions, and rising workloads. This may sound familiar to millions of federal employees working at dozens of federal departments and agencies over the past few years. For…
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June 24, 2013
As we revealed in May of this year, NFFE completed an update of its strategic plan for building membership. To better serve you the NFFE National Office has created a more…