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March 12, 2013
Dear Senator Alexander, I write in response to your March 1, 2013 letter to Acting Secretary of Labor Seth Harris. I would like to start by thanking you for pointing…
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March 7, 2013
Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) introduced a bill to cut the federal workforce by ten percent over three years, for a total reduction of 200,000 jobs. The Federal Workforce Reduction Through…
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March 7, 2013
Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a funding measure including a provision to extend the much-maligned federal pay freeze and allowing automatic sequestration cuts to take effect. The bill, H.R.…
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March 5, 2013
It’s official: On Friday, March 1st, $85 billion in automatic sequestration cuts have taken effect. So what happens next? Rather than a sudden hit to federal payrolls, sequestration will take…
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February 28, 2013
Congressional Republicans did not waste much time targeting the federal workforce for cuts since the 113th Congress was seated this January. We have already seen bills to freeze pay, slash…
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February 27, 2013
This morning, NFFE National President William R. Dougan sat down with DC WUSA Channel 9’s Jessica Doyle to talk about the importance of speaking up in opposition to the coming…
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February 22, 2013
With just days before massive sequestration cuts hit federal agencies March 1st, the time for federal employees to take action is now! We want to tell Congress, the White House,…
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February 21, 2013
*Correction: In the first version of this story, we mistakenly said the letter called for one furlough day for each of the remaining 22 pay periods of the year. We…
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February 21, 2013
On a conference call with labor representatives early Wednesday, DoD Assistant Secretary for Readiness and Force Management Frederick Vollrath revealed new details about the Department’s furlough plans in the event…
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February 13, 2013
The 2013 IAM Newsletter and Website Competition is underway, and we’re asking all NFFE locals to enter their newsletter, websites, and Facebook pages today! NFFE locals and the national office…