Sequestration: Pitting Federal Employees vs. Contractors?
Federal employee union says "larger and costlier contractor workforce relatively untouched" by sequestration.
(Editor's note: The following is a release from the The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest federal employee union, representing 670,000 workers in the federal government and the government of the District of Columbia.) The Department of the Army issued a state-by-state analysis of its plans to implement spending cuts under sequestration. The proposed implementation plan would impose furloughs on hundreds of thousands of federal employees, and leave the Army's much larger and costlier contractor workforce relatively untouched. On average nationwide, the Army wants to furlough nine U.S. Army civilian employees for every one contractor position. This outrageously unfair and disproportionate ratio is far worse in …
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4:43 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
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