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Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity.
Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm:
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AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2014 · fourth_quarter · Q4
FY 2015 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
FY 2015 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees. Enabling Innovation for Science, Technology, and Energy in America Act, or EINSTEIN America Act, lobbied against Section 122that required a study be conducted to determine how to convert the Department of Energy's award-winning National Energy Technology Lab (NETL) from a government owned and operated facility (GO-GO) facility into a government owned, contractor-operated (GO-CO) outfit. Lobbied against Blumenauer and Swalwell amendments to House FY15 Energy and Water Appropriation Bill that would cut funding for fossil fuel research conducted at National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). HR 3080, Water Resources Development Act, lobbied against Young/Petri amendment that would prevent the Corps of Engineers (CoE) from using lower-cost, higher-performing alternatives to contractors for surveying and mapping functions.
Source: Senate LDA
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). HR 813/S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Military Reserve Jobs Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Military Reserve Jobs Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). HR 813/S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Military Reserve Jobs Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Military Reserve Jobs Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Smarter Sentencing Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on Gingrey (GA) amendment in House to eliminate official time for all federal employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB).S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity. Lobbied for Julie Akins Clark to be confirmed to a second term and the General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority. HR 3382, the Smarter Sentencing Act of 2014 - lobbied for this bill as a means to curb the explosive growth of the BOP prison population by helping to reduce lengthy sentences for those convicted of non-violent drug offenses thereby making it safer and more secure workplace. HR 3474 portion of tax extenders package, SA 3205, Toomey (PA) amendment to restore tax fairness to certain BOP correctional officers by providing an exemption from the 10% penalty tax on early distributions from Thrift Saving Plan fund for BOP correctional officers who retire before age 55.
Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.HR 4026, Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers, a bill granting public safety officer status to Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) who die in the line of duty. Lobbied to gain Title 5 and MSPB rights for TSOs.
Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.HR 4026, Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers, a bill granting public safety officer status to Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) who die in the line of duty. Lobbied to gain Title 5 and MSPB rights for TSOs.
Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.HR 4026, Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers, a bill granting public safety officer status to Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) who die in the line of duty. Lobbied to gain Title 5 and MSPB rights for TSOs.
Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.HR 4026, Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers, a bill granting public safety officer status to Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) who die in the line of duty. Lobbied to gain Title 5 and MSPB rights for TSOs.
Rebalance for an Effective Defense Uniform and Civilian Employees Act (REDUCE Act)
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out and downsizing of federal employee jobs. Civilian employee furloughs and contractor provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic facilities.Lobbying to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. FY 2015 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. FY 2015 National Defense Authorization (NDAA). Lobbied for amendments that would prevent arbitrary downsizing, sourcing, and workforce management of the civilian workforce: --Senate NDAA Amendment 3432, Cardin--extending cap on service contract spending to offset cap on civilian workforce. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3419, Walsh-Tester--requiring DoD adoption of Army checklist in order to prevent illegal privatization. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3644, Begich--treating Non-Appropriated civilian employees the same as Appropriated civilian employees only for purposes of privatization. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3756, Hirono--requiring DoD to use its own cost comparison process to assign new work on the basis of cost-efficiency. Lobbied against: Jenkins (KS) Amendment - to force DoD to use contractors for the performance of inherently governmental functions regardless of the risk to the public interest. HR 4257 to slash the size of DoD civilian workforce by 15%, or almost 120,000 positions. Lobbied against the bill because it would not reduce the Departments workloadinstead, DoD would do the same with less. --DoD's compliance with Section 955 of the FY13 NDAA, specifically, the arbitrary cuts in the civilian and service contract workforces and the burden on the Department.
Rebalance for an Effective Defense Uniform and Civilian Employees Act (REDUCE Act)
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out and downsizing of federal employee jobs. Civilian employee furloughs and contractor provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic facilities.Lobbying to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. FY 2015 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. FY 2015 National Defense Authorization (NDAA). Lobbied for amendments that would prevent arbitrary downsizing, sourcing, and workforce management of the civilian workforce: --Senate NDAA Amendment 3432, Cardin--extending cap on service contract spending to offset cap on civilian workforce. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3419, Walsh-Tester--requiring DoD adoption of Army checklist in order to prevent illegal privatization. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3644, Begich--treating Non-Appropriated civilian employees the same as Appropriated civilian employees only for purposes of privatization. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3756, Hirono--requiring DoD to use its own cost comparison process to assign new work on the basis of cost-efficiency. Lobbied against: Jenkins (KS) Amendment - to force DoD to use contractors for the performance of inherently governmental functions regardless of the risk to the public interest. HR 4257 to slash the size of DoD civilian workforce by 15%, or almost 120,000 positions. Lobbied against the bill because it would not reduce the Departments workloadinstead, DoD would do the same with less.
Comprehensive Department of Veterans Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Comprehensive Department of Veterans Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Comprehensive Department of Veterans Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Veteran Access to Care Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Veteran Access to Care Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Veteran Access to Care Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
To amend title 5, United States Code, to require that the Office of Personnel Management submit an annual report to Congress relating to the use of official time by Federal employees.
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity.
Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). HR 813/S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity.
Military Reserve Jobs Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Military Reserve Jobs Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Military Reserve Jobs Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). HR 813/S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Military Reserve Jobs Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to modify authorities relating to the collective bargaining of employees in the Veterans Health Administration.
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to modify authorities relating to the collective bargaining of employees in the Veterans Health Administration.
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to modify authorities relating to the collective bargaining of employees in the Veterans Health Administration.
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). HR 813/S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity.
Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on Gingrey (GA) amendment in House to eliminate official time for all federal employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB).S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity. HR 3474 portion of tax extenders package, SA 3205, Toomey (PA) amendment to restore tax fairness to certain BOP correctional officers by providing an exemption from the 10% penalty tax on early distributions from Thrift Saving Plan fund for BOP correctional officers who retire before age 55. Lobbied for Schumer legislation to address Social Security Administration field office closings leading to vital service reductions as outlined in its Vision 2025 report. Plan to go to an exclusively on-line system for the public to get help instead of talking directly to a qualified, trained staff. Raised these concerns for discussion during Acting Commissioner Carolyn Colvin's nomination hearing.
Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity.
Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on Gingrey (GA) amendment in House to eliminate official time for all federal employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB).S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity. HR 3474 portion of tax extenders package, Toomey (PA) amendment to restore tax fairness to certain BOP correctional officers by providing an exemption from the 10% penalty tax on early distributions from Thrift Saving Plan fund for BOP correctional officers who retire before age 55. Lobbied for Schumer legislation to address Social Security Administration field office closings leading to vital service reductions as outlined in its Vision 2025 report. Plan to go to an exclusively on-line system for the public to get help instead of talking directly to a qualified, trained staff. Raised these concerns for discussion during Acting Commissioner Carolyn Colvin's nomination hearing.
Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2015 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on Gingrey (GA) amendment in House to eliminate official time for all federal employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB).S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity. Lobbied for Julie Akins Clark to be confirmed to a second term and the General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority. HR 3382, the Smarter Sentencing Act of 2014 - lobbied for this bill as a means to curb the explosive growth of the BOP prison population by helping to reduce lengthy sentences for those convicted of non-violent drug offenses thereby making it safer and more secure workplace. HR 3474 portion of tax extenders package, SA 3205, Toomey (PA) amendment to restore tax fairness to certain BOP correctional officers by providing an exemption from the 10% penalty tax on early distributions from Thrift Saving Plan fund for BOP correctional officers who retire before age 55.
Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). HR 813/S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). HR 813/S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Trade Enforcement Priorities Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). HR 813/S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Trade Enforcement Priorities Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Trade Enforcement Priorities Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Trade Enforcement Priorities Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.
Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity.
Helping Heroes Fly Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2013 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services (Sessions Amendment targeting CIS Information Officers and other specificoccupations and job titles changes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. S 772, Secure Facilities Act of 2011, Federal Protective Service reform for adequately staffing and funding of this Homeland Security Agency. HR 3116/S 1546 - DHS Authorization Act of 2011/FY 2012 - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, and sourcing of federal employees in these agencies. HR 1344 - Helping Heroes Fly Act - to provide expedited screening for seriously wounded or disabled active duty and military veterans.
Helping Heroes Fly Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services (Sessions Amendment targeting CIS Information Officers and other specificoccupations and job titles changes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. S 772, Secure Facilities Act of 2011, Federal Protective Service reform for adequately staffing and funding of this Homeland Security Agency. HR 3116/S 1546 - DHS Authorization Act of 2011/FY 2012 - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, and sourcing of federal employees in these agencies. HR 1344 - Helping Heroes Fly Act - to provide expedited screening for seriously wounded or disabled active duty and military veterans.
School Safety Enhancements Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2013 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC.FY 2013 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. HR 3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees. Lobbied to transition to the use of $1 coins and to end the use of $1 bills.
School Safety Enhancements Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC.FY 2014 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. HR 3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees. Lobbied to transition to the use of $1 coins and to end the use of $1 bills.
Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2765 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both Hybrid Title 38 and Pure Title 38). HR 813/ S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses.
Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2765 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both Hybrid Title 38 and Pure Title 38). HR 813/ S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses.
Save Our Seasons Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2765 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both Hybrid Title 38 and Pure Title 38). HR 813/ S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses.
Save Our Seasons Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2765 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both Hybrid Title 38 and Pure Title 38). HR 813/ S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses.
No Bailouts for Insurance Industry Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2013 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic industrial facilities. Also, to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. S. 3254, section 341, to cut funding for civilian personnel by 5% and require elimination of 18,000 to 37,000 by 2017.HR.3980/ HR 3851/ HR 3893, anti-insourcing provisions advocating for small businesses. FY 2013 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. HR 5854, opposing provisions to freeze salaries of civilians in DoD and DVA .
Responsible Rail and Deterring Deficiency Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2013 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic industrial facilities. Also, to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. S. 3254, section 341, to cut funding for civilian personnel by 5% and require elimination of 18,000 to 37,000 by 2017.HR.3980/ HR 3851/ HR 3893, anti-insourcing provisions advocating for small businesses. FY 2013 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. HR 5854, opposing provisions to freeze salaries of civilians in DoD and DVA .
Water Supply Permitting Coordination Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2013 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic industrial facilities. Also, to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. S. 3254, section 341, to cut funding for civilian personnel by 5% and require elimination of 18,000 to 37,000 by 2017.HR.3980/ HR 3851/ HR 3893, anti-insourcing provisions advocating for small businesses. FY 2013 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. HR 5854, opposing provisions to freeze salaries of civilians in DoD and DVA .
To amend title 5, United States Code, to require that the Office of Personnel Management submit an annual report to Congress relating to the use of official time by Federal employees.
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.
To amend title 5, United States Code, to require that the Office of Personnel Management submit an annual report to Congress relating to the use of official time by Federal employees.
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity.
To allow the importation, distribution, and sale of investigational drugs and devices intended for use by terminally ill patients who execute an informed consent document.
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Civilian employee furloughs and contractor provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic facilities. HR 1960, Rigell amendment, to give DoD discretion to conduct OMB Circular A-76privatization studies Lobbying to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventori3es and to lift the cap on civilian employees. FY 2014 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. HR 5854, opposing provisions to freeze salaries of civilians in DoD and DVA.
To allow the importation, distribution, and sale of investigational drugs and devices intended for use by terminally ill patients who execute an informed consent document.
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Civilian employee furloughs and contractor provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic industrial facilities.Also, to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. FY 2014 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. HR 5854, opposing provisions to freeze salaries of civilians in DoD and DVA .
To allow the importation, distribution, and sale of investigational drugs and devices intended for use by terminally ill patients who execute an informed consent document.
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2013 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic industrial facilities. Also, to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. S. 3254, section 341, to cut funding for civilian personnel by 5% and require elimination of 18,000 to 37,000 by 2017.HR.3980/ HR 3851/ HR 3893, anti-insourcing provisions advocating for small businesses. FY 2013 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. HR 5854, opposing provisions to freeze salaries of civilians in DoD and DVA .
To allow the importation, distribution, and sale of investigational drugs and devices intended for use by terminally ill patients who execute an informed consent document.
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Civilian employee furloughs and contractor provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic facilities. HR 1960, Rigell amendment, to give DoD discretion to conduct OMB Circular A-76privatization studies. Lobbying to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. FY 2014 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. FY 2014 National Defense Authorization (NDAA)--lobbied for Sanders' amendment that would increase the minimum wage to at least $14 an hour for work performed in the U.S. HR 5854, opposing provisions to freeze salaries of civilians in DoD and DVA.
Part-Time Worker Bill of Rights Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2013 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC.FY 2013 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. HR 3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees. Lobbied to transition to the use of $1 coins and to end the use of $1 bills.
Part-Time Worker Bill of Rights Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC.FY 2014 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. HR 3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees. Lobbied to transition to the use of $1 coins and to end the use of $1 bills.
Full Faith and Credit Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2013 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC.FY 2013 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. HR 3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees. Lobbied to transition to the use of $1 coins and to end the use of $1 bills.
Full Faith and Credit Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC.FY 2014 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. HR 3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees. Lobbied to transition to the use of $1 coins and to end the use of $1 bills.
Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2765 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both Hybrid Title 38 and Pure Title 38). HR 813/ S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses.
Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Reintroduction of bill to amend Section 7422 of Title 38 - provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. Bills would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities.Lobbying on draft bills to: -- Provide Title 38 employees with equal bargaining rights. -- Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. -- Provide VA health care employees appointed under Title 38 with equal rights to appeal to Merit Systems Protection Board and Department of Labor when their veterans' preference rights are violated. -- Make technical fixes to Caregiver Act (PL 111-163) relating to VA personnel provisions. -- Request for oversight of Veterans Benefit Administration personnel issues, including performance standards and training. -- Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. -- HR 813/S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013; expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. --S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013; establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration; mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records.
Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2765 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both Hybrid Title 38 and Pure Title 38). HR 813/ S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses.
Decrease Spending Now Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2013 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC.FY 2013 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. HR 3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees. Lobbied to transition to the use of $1 coins and to end the use of $1 bills.
Decrease Spending Now Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC.FY 2014 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. HR 3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees. Lobbied to transition to the use of $1 coins and to end the use of $1 bills.
Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.
Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity.
Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC.FY 2014 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. HR 3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees. Lobbied to transition to the use of $1 coins and to end the use of $1 bills.
Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2013 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC.FY 2013 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. HR 3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees. Lobbied to transition to the use of $1 coins and to end the use of $1 bills.
Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.
Federal Employee Accountability Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity.
Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
FY 2014 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity.
Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO · Firm: AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2765 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both Hybrid Title 38 and Pure Title 38). HR 813/ S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses.
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. S932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act. to ensure more stable funding by extending advance appropriations to the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), National Cemetery Administration (NCA), and other VA programs, services, and benefits. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2015, to ensure veterans with a service connected disability rating of 30 percent or more with 104 hours of "disabled veteran leave (leave)" at the beginning of their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Lobbied on proposed changes to FEHBP that could benefit some federal employees and harm others, while shifting more of cost burden on federal employees and retirees. And to ensure any legislation to implement these changes will not harm FEHBP enrollees.
FY 2015 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.HR 4026, Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers, a bill granting public safety officer status to Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) who die in the line of duty. Lobbied to gain Title 5 and MSPB rights for TSOs.
FY 2015 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on Gingrey (GA) amendment in House to eliminate official time for all federal employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB).S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity. HR 3474 portion of tax extenders package, Toomey (PA) amendment to restore tax fairness to certain BOP correctional officers by providing an exemption from the 10% penalty tax on early distributions from Thrift Saving Plan fund for BOP correctional officers who retire before age 55. Lobbied for Schumer legislation to address Social Security Administration field office closings leading to vital service reductions as outlined in its Vision 2025 report. Plan to go to an exclusively on-line system for the public to get help instead of talking directly to a qualified, trained staff. Raised these concerns for discussion during Acting Commissioner Carolyn Colvin's nomination hearing.
FY 2015 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out and downsizing of federal employee jobs. Civilian employee furloughs and contractor provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic facilities.Lobbying to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. FY 2015 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. FY 2015 National Defense Authorization (NDAA). Lobbied for amendments that would prevent arbitrary downsizing, sourcing, and workforce management of the civilian workforce: --Senate NDAA Amendment 3432, Cardin--extending cap on service contract spending to offset cap on civilian workforce. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3419, Walsh-Tester--requiring DoD adoption of Army checklist in order to prevent illegal privatization. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3644, Begich--treating Non-Appropriated civilian employees the same as Appropriated civilian employees only for purposes of privatization. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3756, Hirono--requiring DoD to use its own cost comparison process to assign new work on the basis of cost-efficiency. Lobbied against: Jenkins (KS) Amendment - to force DoD to use contractors for the performance of inherently governmental functions regardless of the risk to the public interest. HR 4257 to slash the size of DoD civilian workforce by 15%, or almost 120,000 positions. Lobbied against the bill because it would not reduce the Departments workloadinstead, DoD would do the same with less. --DoD's compliance with Section 955 of the FY13 NDAA, specifically, the arbitrary cuts in the civilian and service contract workforces and the burden on the Department.
FY 2015 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76. Budget Reconciliation with regard to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of publicworker jobs to private contractors.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2014 · third_quarter · Q3
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. HR 5229, the Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014, to ensure disabled veterans do not have to choose between their health care needs and their employment. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes. --Introduction of a resolution designating September 22-28 as Federal Nurses Week.
FY 2015 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on Gingrey (GA) amendment in House to eliminate official time for all federal employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB).S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity. HR 3474 portion of tax extenders package, SA 3205, Toomey (PA) amendment to restore tax fairness to certain BOP correctional officers by providing an exemption from the 10% penalty tax on early distributions from Thrift Saving Plan fund for BOP correctional officers who retire before age 55. Lobbied for Schumer legislation to address Social Security Administration field office closings leading to vital service reductions as outlined in its Vision 2025 report. Plan to go to an exclusively on-line system for the public to get help instead of talking directly to a qualified, trained staff. Raised these concerns for discussion during Acting Commissioner Carolyn Colvin's nomination hearing.
FY 2015 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76. Budget Reconciliation with regard to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of publicworker jobs to private contractors.
FY 2015 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out and downsizing of federal employee jobs. Civilian employee furloughs and contractor provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic facilities.Lobbying to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. FY 2015 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. FY 2015 National Defense Authorization (NDAA). Lobbied for amendments that would prevent arbitrary downsizing, sourcing, and workforce management of the civilian workforce: --Senate NDAA Amendment 3432, Cardin--extending cap on service contract spending to offset cap on civilian workforce. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3419, Walsh-Tester--requiring DoD adoption of Army checklist in order to prevent illegal privatization. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3644, Begich--treating Non-Appropriated civilian employees the same as Appropriated civilian employees only for purposes of privatization. --Senate NDAA Amendment 3756, Hirono--requiring DoD to use its own cost comparison process to assign new work on the basis of cost-efficiency. Lobbied against: Jenkins (KS) Amendment - to force DoD to use contractors for the performance of inherently governmental functions regardless of the risk to the public interest. HR 4257 to slash the size of DoD civilian workforce by 15%, or almost 120,000 positions. Lobbied against the bill because it would not reduce the Departments workloadinstead, DoD would do the same with less.
FY 2015 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees. Enabling Innovation for Science, Technology, and Energy in America Act, or EINSTEIN America Act, lobbied against Section 122that required a study be conducted to determine how to convert the Department of Energy's award-winning National Energy Technology Lab (NETL) from a government owned and operated facility (GO-GO) facility into a government owned, contractor-operated (GO-CO) outfit. Lobbied against Blumenauer and Swalwell amendments to House FY15 Energy and Water Appropriation Bill that would cut funding for fossil fuel research conducted at National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). HR 3080, Water Resources Development Act, lobbied against Young/Petri amendment that would prevent the Corps of Engineers (CoE) from using lower-cost, higher-performing alternatives to contractors for surveying and mapping functions.
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Lobbied on proposed changes to FEHBP that could benefit some federal employees and harm others, while shifting more of cost burden on federal employees and retirees. And to ensure any legislation to implement these changes will not harm FEHBP enrollees.
FY 2015 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.HR 4026, Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers, a bill granting public safety officer status to Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) who die in the line of duty. Lobbied to gain Title 5 and MSPB rights for TSOs.
FY 2015 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2014 · second_quarter · Q2
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Lobbied for HR 3230/S 2450, Veterans' Access to Care Through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, in particular emergency funding for the VA. These bills provide a comprehensive, balanced, and evidence-based approach to improving health care access to our veterans and ensure fair evaluation of VA frontline physicians' performance and the critical emergency funding necessary. HR 4399, Comprehensive Department of Veterans' Affairs Performance Management and Accountability Reform Act of 2014 - lobbied against its drastic changes to market pay and performance pay elements that would adversely affect recruitment and retention of front-line clinicians providing direct care to our veterans. HR 4810, the Veterans Access to Care Act of 2014, specifically, lobbied against the portion requiring VA utilize a single approach to expanding access by allowing contractors to handle inpatient and outpatient veterans' care. Also against provisions to ban all bonuses and awards to VA employees. Lobbied for S 1556/HR 4580, Improving Clinical Care Workforce for Our Vets - provisions restoring equal bargaining rights, significantly strengthening VA's ability to recruit and retain health care professionals, and cutting down on turnover and contract care costs. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide emergency funding for VA health care. --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
FY 2015 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out and downsizing of federal employee jobs. Civilian employee furloughs and contractor provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic facilities.Lobbying to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. FY 2015 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. FY 2015 National Defense Authorization (NDAA).
FY 2015 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on Gingrey (GA) amendment in House to eliminate official time for all federal employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB).S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity. Lobbied for Julie Akins Clark to be confirmed to a second term and the General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority. HR 3382, the Smarter Sentencing Act of 2014 - lobbied for this bill as a means to curb the explosive growth of the BOP prison population by helping to reduce lengthy sentences for those convicted of non-violent drug offenses thereby making it safer and more secure workplace. HR 3474 portion of tax extenders package, SA 3205, Toomey (PA) amendment to restore tax fairness to certain BOP correctional officers by providing an exemption from the 10% penalty tax on early distributions from Thrift Saving Plan fund for BOP correctional officers who retire before age 55.
FY 2015 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees. Enabling Innovation for Science, Technology, and Energy in America Act, or EINSTEIN America Act, lobbied against Section 122that required a study be conducted to determine how to convert the award-winning National Energy Technology Lab (NETL) from a government owned and operated facility (GO-GO) facility into a government owned, contractor-operated (GO-CO) outfit. HR 3080, Water Resources Development Act, lobbied against Young/Petri amendment that would prevent the Corps of Engineers (CoE) from using lower-cost, higher-performing alternatives to contractors for surveying and mapping functions.
FY 2015 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
FY 2015 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.HR 4026, Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers, a bill granting public safety officer status to Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) who die in the line of duty. Lobbied to gain Title 5 and MSPB rights for TSOs.
FY 2015 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76. Budget Reconciliation with regard to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of publicworker jobs to private contractors.
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Lobbied on proposed changes to FEHBP that could benefit some federal employees and harm others, while shifting more of cost burden on federal employees and retirees. And to ensure any legislation to implement these changes will not harm FEHBP enrollees.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2014 · first_quarter · Q1
FY 2015 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.HR 4026, Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers, a bill granting public safety officer status to Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) who die in the line of duty. Lobbied to gain Title 5 and MSPB rights for TSOs.
FY 2015 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees. Enabling Innovation for Science, Technology, and Energy in America Act, or EINSTEIN America Act, lobbied against Section 111that required a study be conducted to determine how to convert the award-winning National Energy Technology Lab (NETL) from a government owned and operated facility (GO-GO) facility into a government owned, contractor-operated (GO-CO) outfit. HR 3080, Water Resources Development Act, lobbied against Young/Petri amendment that would prevent the Corps of Engineers (CoE) from using lower-cost, higher-performing alternatives to contractors for surveying and mapping functions.
FY 2015 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out and downsizing of federal employee jobs. Civilian employee furloughs and contractor provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic facilities.privatization studies. Lobbying to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. FY 2015 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. FY 2015 National Defense Authorization (NDAA).
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. Incorporate into S 1950 and S 1982. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2785 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both HR 2785 and S 1320). HR 813/S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. --Expand veterans preference rights for Title 38 employees. --Mandate a new work credit system for VBA employees based on a data driven time motion study. --Issue a moratorium on VA spending on any downgrades of employees before a study can be done to determine the impact on protected EEO classes.
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Lobbied on proposed changes to FEHBP that could benefit some federal employees and harm others, while shifting more of cost burden on federal employees and retirees. And to ensure any legislation to implement these changes will not harm FEHBP enrollees.
FY 2015 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
FY 2015 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity.
FY 2015 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76. Budget Reconciliation with regard to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of publicworker jobs to private contractors.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2013 · fourth_quarter · Q4
FY 2014 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76. Budget Reconciliation with regard to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of publicworker jobs to private contractors.
FY 2014 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.S 815, the Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2013 (ENDA), lobbied for extension of worker protections against discrimination to all workers. This would include hiring, firing, and other personnel actions based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, and disability. This would also include sexual orientation or gender identity.
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Lobbied on proposed changes to FEHBP that could benefit some federal employees and harm others, while shifting more of cost burden on federal employees and retirees. And to ensure any legislation to implement these changes will not harm FEHBP enrollees.
FY 2014 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
FY 2014 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.
FY 2014 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Civilian employee furloughs and contractor provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic facilities. HR 1960, Rigell amendment, to give DoD discretion to conduct OMB Circular A-76privatization studies. Lobbying to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. FY 2014 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. FY 2014 National Defense Authorization (NDAA)--lobbied for Sanders' amendment that would increase the minimum wage to at least $14 an hour for work performed in the U.S. HR 5854, opposing provisions to freeze salaries of civilians in DoD and DVA.
FY 2014 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees. Enabling Innovation for Science, Technology, and Energy in America Act, or EINSTEIN America Avt, lobbied against Section 111that required a study be conducted to determine how to convert the award-winning National Energy Technology Lab (NETL) from a government owned and operated facility (GO-GO) facility into a government owned, contractor-operated (GO-CO) outfit. HR 3080, Water Resources Development Act, lobbied against Young/Petri amendment that would prevent the Corps of Engineers (CoE) from using lower-cost, higher-performing alternatives to contractors for surveying and mapping functions.
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2765 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both Hybrid Title 38 and Pure Title 38). HR 813/ S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
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2013 · third_quarter · Q3
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Lobbied on proposed changes to FEHBP that could benefit some federal employees and harm others, while shifting more of cost burden on federal employees and retirees. And to ensure any legislation to implement these changes will not harm FEHBP enrollees.
FY 2014 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Civilian employee furloughs and contractor provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic facilities. HR 1960, Rigell amendment, to give DoD discretion to conduct OMB Circular A-76privatization studies Lobbying to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventori3es and to lift the cap on civilian employees. FY 2014 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. HR 5854, opposing provisions to freeze salaries of civilians in DoD and DVA.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2013 · second_quarter · Q2
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Possible changes to recently passed health care reform legislation.
FY 2014 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Civilian employee furloughs and contractor provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic industrial facilities.Also, to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. FY 2014 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. HR 5854, opposing provisions to freeze salaries of civilians in DoD and DVA .
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2013 · first_quarter · Q1
FY 2013 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2013 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
FY 2013 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC.FY 2013 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. HR 3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees. Lobbied to transition to the use of $1 coins and to end the use of $1 bills.
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2012 · fourth_quarter · Q4
FY 2013 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services (Sessions Amendment targeting CIS Information Officers and other specific occupations and job titles changes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. S 772, Secure Facilities Act of 2011, Federal Protective Service reform for adequately staffing and funding of this Homeland Security Agency. HR 3116/S 1546 - DHS Authorization Act of 2011/FY 2012 - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, and sourcing of federal employees in these agencies. HR 3011 TSA Authorization Act - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, working conditions, and sourcing of TSA federal employees. Lobbied against Stop TSA's Reach in Policy (STRIP) and Restoring Integrity and Good-Heartedness to the Traveler Screening (RIGHTS) bills to "protect" passengers from perceived mistreatment by TSOs.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2012 · third_quarter · Q3
FY 2013 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2013 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. S 95/HR 1941, Hiring Heroes Act, provision that would create a new direct hire authority to offer federal jobs to every veteran within the first 180 days after an honorable discharge from active duty. S 743, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. S 2170, the Hatch Act Modernization Act, provisions to allow state and local workers to run for political office. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. HR 3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 1175/S 1645, Pepper Spray bill - provisions dealing with Bureau of Prisons management policy changes, including the use of non-lethal weaponry. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees. S 2049 and HR 2977, lobbied to transition to the use of $1 coins and to end the use of $1 bills.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2012 · second_quarter · Q2
FY 2013 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2013 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2013 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. S 95/HR 1941, Hiring Heroes Act, provision that would create a new direct hire authority to offer federal jobs to every veteran within the first 180 days after an honorable discharge from active duty. S 743, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. H.R.3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 1175/S 1645, Pepper Spray bill - provisions dealing with Bureau of Prisons management policy changes, including the use of non-lethal weaponry. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S. 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2012 · first_quarter · Q1
FY 2013 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Possible changes to recently passed health care reform legislation. S 582/HR 1118, S. Amdt. 207, regarding Social Security benefits for current and future beneficiaries. These benefits should not be cut and the Social Security program should not be privatized as part of any legislation to reduce the federal budget deficit.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2011 · third_quarter · 3A
FY 2012 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic industrial facilities.FY 2012 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing.
FY 2012 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
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2011 · fourth_quarter · Q4
S 572/HR 807, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 572/HR 807 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights over compensation matters as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities. HR 2965 - to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for penalties for employees of the Veterans Health Administration who intentionally fail to follow infection control practices. HR 2433, Veterans Opportunity to Work Act of 2011- provisions related to increases in use of contractors for veterans training and jobs programs. S 951/HR 1941, Hiring Heroes Act of 2011 - Section 10 that would provide federal jobs to newly discharged veterans through direct hire authority. HR 2383, Modernizing Notice to Claimants Act - provisions that could weaken requirements for statutory notices to veterans appealing benefit claims by overrelying on electronic notices and reducing number of notices. HR 2349, Veterans' Benefits Act of 2011 - provisions that could expose VBA claims processing personnel to unwarranted adverse actions; requirement of biannual assessment testing but does not ensure fair testing process; and links remediation and adverse personnel actions.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2011 · third_quarter · Q3
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Possible changes to recently passed health care reform legislation. S 582/HR 1118, S. Amdt. 207, regarding Social Security benefits for current and future beneficiaries. These benefits should not be cut and the Social Security program should not be privatized as part of any legislation to reduce the federal budget deficit.
FY 2012 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2011 · second_quarter · Q2
S 572/HR 807, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 572/HR 807 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights over compensation matters as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities.
FY 2012 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services (Sessions Amendment targeting CIS Information Officers and other specific occupations and job titles changes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. S 772, Secure Facilities Act of 2011, Federal Protective Service reform for adequately staffing and funding of this Homeland Security Agency.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2011 · first_quarter · Q1
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Possible changes to recently passed health care reform legislation. S 582/HR 1118, S. Amdt. 207, regarding Social Security benefits for current and future beneficiaries. These benefits should not be cut and the Social Security program should not be privatized as part of any legislation to reduce the federal budget deficit.
FY 2011/12 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2010 · fourth_quarter · Q4
FY 2011 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.
FY 2011 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2011 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 626/S 354, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act -- proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. HR 1722/S 707, Telework Improvements Act - provisions to increase amount of telework for eligible employees to at least 20% of the hours worked for every two work week period. HR 1881 - Transportation Security Workforce Enhancement Act, provision to grant TSOs true workplace rights and protections as other federal employees. S 362/HR 949 - provision to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistants, and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care). HR 1507/S 372, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. S 1963 - Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Healthy Services Act; including personnel provisions impacting VA health care professionals' pay and scheduling, and converting Title 5 Nursing Assistants to Hybrid Title 38 personnel system. HR 4832, One America, Many Voices Act, to grant federal employees whose position descriptions require a multilingual skill a 5% pay differential. HR 4735 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 3345, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions on Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issue including dual status and retiree health care. H.R.3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 1990, Pepper Spray bill - provisions dealing with Bureau of Prisons management policy changes, including the use of non-lethal weaponry. H.R.4239 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, to provide statutory relief from 10% early withdrawal penalty for BOP correctional workers who participate in the Thrift Savings Plan.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2010 · third_quarter · Q3
FY 2011 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors. Approval of the FY 2011 DC budget in the Continuing Resolution. FY 2011 Defense Authorization - provision allowing Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) staff hired between 1987-1997 to count all of their years of service for federal retirement eligibility.
AFGE is part of a coalition of 28 health organizations and labor unions urging support of Health and Human Services's funding request to appropriate $2 billion for research, vaccine purchases, and related activities. HR 4489, The FEHBP Prescription Drug Integrity, Transparency, and Cost Savings Act - support of bill and use of Pharmacy Benefit Managers to ensure fairness to taxpayers and enrollees.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2010 · second_quarter · Q2
FY 2011 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2011 Defense Appropriations and Authorization- provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Department of Defense purchase of Unicorp goods and services.
FY 2011 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.
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2010 · first_quarter · Q1
FY 2011 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget. S 1963, bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - to enhance the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health care professionals and to improve the provision of health care to veterans. HR 919, bill to amend Title 38 to enhance the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health care professionals. S 597, Women's Veterans Health Improvement Act of 2008 - provisions to identify and address needs of women veterans and their families through research, training and certification programs, and participation on VA advisory committees. S 362/HR 949, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 362/HR 949 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities. S 1155/HR 1302 - provision to establish a full-time Director of Physician Assistant Services with the Department of Veterans Affairs. S 658 - provisions to improve access to health care for rural veterans. Recommending an increase in the mileage rate and greater oversight of contract care program (such as Project HERO, VA's contract health care program already underway) to include collection of data comparing amount of travel required for visits to contract care facilities to amount of travel required to receive care at nearest VA facility; and its resulting impact on VA's capacity to provide services in-house. S801/HR 2342, bill to provide support services to family caregivers of severely injured or disabled veterans. HR 1016/S 423, HRes 804, bills to provide advance appropriations for VA health care.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2009 · fourth_quarter · Q4
FY 2010 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2010 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2010 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 626/S 354 - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. HR 1722/S 707, Telework Improvements Act - provisions to increase amount of telework for eligible employees to at least 20% of the hours worked for every two work week period. HR 1881 - Transportation Security Workforce Enhancement Act, provision to grant TSOs true workplace rights and protections as other federal employees. HR 949 - provision to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistants, and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care). HR 1507/S 372, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2009 · third_quarter · Q3
FY 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.
FY 2010 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2010 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2010 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 626/S 354 - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. HR 1722/S 707, Telework Improvements Act - provisions to increase amount of telework for eligible employees to at least 20% of the hours worked for every two work week period. HR 1881 - Transportation Security Workforce Enhancement Act, provision to grant TSOs true workplace rights and protections as other federal employees. HR 949 - provision to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistants, and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care). HR 1507/S 372, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2009 · second_quarter · Q2
AFGE is part of a coalition of 28 health organizations and labor unions urging support of Health and Human Services's funding request to appropriate $2 billion for research, vaccine purchases, and related activities.
FY 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.
FY 2010 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on DeCA A-76 moratorium, depot maintenance, civilian personnel issues (NSPS provisions for restoration of collective bargaining rights and appeal rights), suspension of new OMB circular A-76 privatization study in DoD, Performance Based Organizations, Demonstrations Projects, contracting out for Security Guards and firefighter functions, and BRAC.
AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO via AMERICAN FED OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO
2009 · first_quarter · Q1
FY 2010 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
H.Con.Res. 85/S.Con.Res. 13, FY 2010 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget. S 423, bill to authorize advance appropriations for VA health care - provisions to reform the VA health care funding process and enhance Congress' ability to better predict and oversee health care spending. S 252, bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions to increase the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health-care professionals. S 597, Women's Veterans Health Improvement Act of 2008 - provisions to identify and address needs of women veterans and their families through research, training and certification programs, and participation on VA advisory committees. S 362, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations and negotiations. S 362 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities. S 246/HR 568, bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions relating to improving the quality of care provided to veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities and the recruitment of highly qualified doctors to hard to fill positions in these facilities. HR 1302 - provision to establish a full-time Director of Physician Assistant Services with the Department of Veterans Affairs. HR 1377, bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions for expansion of veteran eligibility for reimbursement by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for emergency treatment furnished in a non-Department facility. S 658 - provisions to improve access to health care for rural veterans. Recommending an increase in the mileage rate and greater oversight of contract care program (such as Project HERO, VA's contract health care program already underway) to include collection of data comparing amount of travel required for visits to contract care facilities to amount of travel required to receive care at nearest VA facility; and its resulting impact on VA's capacity to provide services in-house.
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2008 · second_quarter · 2A
H.Con.Res. 312/S.Con.Res. 70, FY 2009 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget. FY 2008 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, Hurricane Recovery, and provisions for additional funding for Department of Veterans Affairs health care. HR 2790 - provision to establish a full-time Director of Physician Assistant Services with the Department of Veterans Affairs. HR 5892, Veterans Disability Benefits Claims Modernization Act of 2008 - provisions to make comprehensive and significant improvement in VBA disability claims processing. S 2799, Women's Veterans Health Improvement Act of 2008 - provisions to improve the quality and access to medical and mental health care for women. HR 4231 - proposal to pilot a voucher system for VA mental health services. S 2984, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions to expand and enhance veterans' benefits. S 2969/HR 6153, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions to increase the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health-care professionals. S 2889, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code - provisions to improve veterans' health care benefits. S 1881/HR 3195, a bill to amend the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - provisions to restore the intent and protections of the Act. S 2639/HR 2514, a bill to amend Title 39, United States Code - provisions to assure an adequate level of funding for veterans' health care. HR 2123, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act - provisions to establish direct care of registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals. S 2377/HR 4463, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions relating to improving the quality of care provided to veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities and the recruitment of highly qualified doctors to hard to fill positions in these facilities. HR 5888, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions for expansion of veteran eligibility for reimbursement by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for emergency treatment furnished in a non-Department facility. HR 6122, a bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to develop and implement a comprehensive policy on pain management as experienced by veterans who are enrolled for health care services provided by the VA. Testimony: April 9, 2008, Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs on "Making the VA the Workplace of Choice for Health Care Providers" May 21, 2008, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on "Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Legislation" May 22, 2008, House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, on "Human Resource Challenges with the Veterans Health Administration" June 5, 2008, House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, on "Legislative Hearing"--Statement for the Record.
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2008 · second_quarter · 2A
FY 2009 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2009 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 5781/HR 3799 - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 1000/HR 4106, Telework Improvements Act - provisions to increase amount of telework for eligible employees to at least 20% of the hours worked for every two work week period. HR 985/S 494, Whistleblower Reform Bill - provisos to grant Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) whistleblower protections and prevent retaliation from their supervisors and the right to appeal decisions to the MSPB. HR 3212 - to grant TSOs true workplace rights and protections as other federal employees. HR 3551/S 2057, MSPB Reauthorization - provisions relating to adjudication of federal workers' rights and protections. HR 4089/HR 2824, provision to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistant and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care). Testimony: April 2, 2008, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies on "FY 2009 Funding for the Bureau of Prisons" April 9, 2008, Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs on "Making the VA the Workplace of Choice for Health Care Providers" April 23, 2008, House Committee on Ways and Means on "Clearing the Disability Backlog--Giving the Social Security Administration the Resources it Needs to Provide the Benefits Workers Have Earned" April 29, 2008, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia on "Catching Up: Benefits That Will Help Recruit and Retain Federal Employees" May 2, 2008, Senate Committee on Finance on "More Work, Less Resources: Social Security Field Offices Struggle to Deliver Service to the Public" May 8, 2008, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, on "From Candidates to Change Makers: Recruiting and Hiring the Next Generation of Federal Employees" May 21, 2008, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on "Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Legislation" May 22, 2008, House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, on "Human Resources Challenges within the Veterans Health Administration" June 5, 2008, House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, on "Legislative Hearing"--Statement for the Record.
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2008 · fourth_quarter · Q4
FY 2009 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. HR 5600, DC Court, Offender Supervision, Parole, and Public Defender Employer Equity Act of 2008 - provisions on the calculation calculation of years of service being transferred and counted toward retirement.
FY 2009 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. HR 985/S 274 - amendments to Title 5, U.S. Code - provisions to clarify which disclosures of information are protected from prohibited personnel practices; to require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements to the effect that they conform with certain disclosure protections.
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2008 · third_quarter · Q3
AFGE is part of a coalition of 28 health organizations and labor unions urging support of Health and Human Services's funding request to appropriate $2billion for research, vaccine purchases, and related activities.
FY 2009 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2009 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 5781/HR 3799 - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 1000/HR 4106, Telework Improvements Act - provisions to increase amount of telework for eligible employees to at least 20% of the hours worked for every two work week period. HR 985/S 274, Whistleblower Reform Bill - provisons to grant Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) whistleblower protections and prevent retaliation from their supervisors and the right to appeal decisions to the MSPB. HR 3212 - to grant TSOs true workplace rights and protections as other federal employees. HR 3551/S 2057, MSPB Reauthorization - provisions relating to adjudication of federal workers' rights and protections. HR 4089/HR 2824, provision to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistant and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care). HR 6339, Federal Employees Deserve to Volunteer on the Elections (FEDVOTE) Act of 2008 - provisons that allow federal employees to serve as non-partisan poll workers on election day; and their time off be counted as administrative leave with pay.
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2008 · second_quarter · Q2
FY 2009 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2009 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. HR 5600, DC Court, Offender Supervision, Parole, and Public Defender Employer Equity Act of 2008 - provisions on the calculation calculation of years of service being transferred and counted toward retirement.
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2008 · first_quarter · Q1
FY 2009 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2009 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 5718/HR 3799 - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. Testimony on March 6, 2008 on Investing in the Future of the Federal workforce: Paid Parental Leave Improves Recruitment and Retention. S 1000/HR 4106, Telework Improvements Act - efforts to increase amount of telework for eligible employees to at least 20% of the hours worked for every two work week period. HR 985/S 494, Whistleblower Reform Bill - to grant Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) whistleblower protections and prevent retaliation from their supervisors and the right to appeal decisions to the MSPB. HR 3212 - to grant TSOs true workplace rights and protections as other federal employees. HR 3551/S 2057, MSPB Reauthorization - adjudication of federal workers' rights and protections. HR 4089, to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistant and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care). Testimony on February 12, 20-0-8 on Federal Workforce on Pay for Performance Systems, focusing on DoD and TSA systems being highly subjective and unfair. Recommendations to require detailed data on how pay is distributed, including number of ratings awarded in each pay pool, and age, gender, and race distributions of employees.
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2007 · year_end · YA
HR 3074/S 1789, FY 2008 Financial Services Appropriations, with regard to contracting out; pay; benefits, staffing levels; and job security of HUD employees.
HR 2638 and 1684/S 1644, FY 2008 Homeland Security Appropriations, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security (DHS Civil Service Plan, renamed the Human Capital Operational Plan) of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. HR 1/S 4, to provide for implementation of the recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States and to make the United States more secure by implementing unfinished recommendations of the 9/11 Commission to fight the war on terror more effectively, and to improve homeland security. HR 985/S 274, to amend Title 5, U.S. Code, to clarify which disclosures of information are protected from prohibited personnel practices; to required a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements to the effect that they conform with certain disclosure protections.
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2007 · year_end · YY
HR 3161/S 1859, FY 2008 Agriculture Appropriations - Authorization and Appropriations, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of USDA employees.
HR 3093, FY 2008 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations, with regard to the reorganization plan that could compromise the EEOC's ability to protect employees from employment discrimination.
HR 2638/S 1644, FY 2008 Homeland Security Appropriations - Border Patrol and INS, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DHS employees, including contracting out.
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2007 · mid_year · MM
wage; federal retirement systems; lines of business, and union representation. HR 2829, FY 2008 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations, amendment to prohibit bill from being used to implement the new pro-contractor revision of OMB Circular A-76; Civil Service Reform; contracting out; blue collar pay; minimum
HR 3161/ S 1859, FY 2008 Agriculture Appropriations - Authorization and Appropriations, with particular attention ot the pay, benefits, staffing levels,and job security of USDA employees.
HR 2829, FY 2008 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - Contracting Out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staff levels, and job security of DC Government employees.
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2006 · year_end · YY
HR 5672, FY 2007 Science, State, Justice, and Commerce Appropriations, with regard to the reorganization plan that could compromise the agency's ability to protect employees from employment discrimination.
HR 5441, FY 2007 Homeland Security Appropriations - Border Patrol and INS, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DHS employees.
AFGE opposed President George W. Bush's nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to be Supreme Court Justice.
FY 2014 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2014 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76. Budget Reconciliation with regard to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of publicworker jobs to private contractors.
FY 2014 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.
FY 2014 THUD Appropriations - lobbying on amendments in House and Senate to eliminate official time for employees in agencies covered by the bill (Transportation, HUD, Merchant Marine Academy, FAA, and NTSB). Other bills to eliminate official time for union representatives - S. 785, S. 1312, H.R. 107 and H.R. 568.
Lobbied for advance appropriations for VA health care to shield most employees during in anticipation of furloughs. Lobbied on Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution to fund benefits paid to veterans and personnel costs for processing disability payments, GI Bill, education training, and VA home loans.HR 813/S 932 - to extend advance appropriations to benefits, cemeteries, and other VA operations to further stabilize VA operations and staffing. HR 1907 - the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2013. HR 2765 - to extend veterans' preference rights to over 80,000 VA health care employees (both Hybrid Title 38 and Pure Title 38). HR 813/ S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 to expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013 - lobbying to establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration and mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records. Continue lobbying efforts on legislation to: --Provide and expand title 38 bargaining rights; --Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. --Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses.
FY 2014 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
Reintroduction of bill to amend Section 7422 of Title 38 - provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. Bills would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities.Lobbying on draft bills to: -- Provide Title 38 employees with equal bargaining rights. -- Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. -- Provide VA health care employees appointed under Title 38 with equal rights to appeal to Merit Systems Protection Board and Department of Labor when their veterans' preference rights are violated. -- Make technical fixes to Caregiver Act (PL 111-163) relating to VA personnel provisions. -- Request for oversight of Veterans Benefit Administration personnel issues, including performance standards and training. -- Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses. -- HR 813/S 932, Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013; expand advance appropriations to the rest of the VA budget, beyond health care. --S 928, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2013; establish a working group to improve work credit and work management systems of the Veterans Benefits Administration; mandate of additional help to veterans to secure federal records.
FY 2014 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC.FY 2014 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. HR 3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees. Lobbied to transition to the use of $1 coins and to end the use of $1 bills.
FY 2014 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
FY 2014 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services (Sessions Amendment targeting CIS Information Officers and other specificoccupations and job titles changes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. S 772, Secure Facilities Act of 2011, Federal Protective Service reform for adequately staffing and funding of this Homeland Security Agency. HR 3116/S 1546 - DHS Authorization Act of 2011/FY 2012 - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, and sourcing of federal employees in these agencies. HR 1344 - Helping Heroes Fly Act - to provide expedited screening for seriously wounded or disabled active duty and military veterans.
FY 2014 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees.Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors. S. 2170, the Hatch Act Modernization Act of 2012, provisions addressing outdated and unclear restrictions of political activities of federal and DC Government employees and to ensure DC employees are treated the same as state or local workers for purposes of the Hatch Act.
FY 2014 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2013 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services (Sessions Amendment targeting CIS Information Officers and other specificoccupations and job titles changes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. S 772, Secure Facilities Act of 2011, Federal Protective Service reform for adequately staffing and funding of this Homeland Security Agency. HR 3116/S 1546 - DHS Authorization Act of 2011/FY 2012 - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, and sourcing of federal employees in these agencies. HR 1344 - Helping Heroes Fly Act - to provide expedited screening for seriously wounded or disabled active duty and military veterans.
FY 2013 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic industrial facilities. Also, to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. S. 3254, section 341, to cut funding for civilian personnel by 5% and require elimination of 18,000 to 37,000 by 2017.HR.3980/ HR 3851/ HR 3893, anti-insourcing provisions advocating for small businesses. FY 2013 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. HR 5854, opposing provisions to freeze salaries of civilians in DoD and DVA .
Reintroduction of bill to amend Section 7422 of Title 38 - provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. Bills would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities.Lobbying on draft bills to: -- Provide Title 38 employees with equal bargaining rights. -- Provide VA Canteen Service employees with Title 5 rights to appeal terminations. -- Provide VA health care employees appointed under Title 38 with equal rights to appeal to Merit Systems Protection Board and Department of Labor when their veterans' preference rights are violated. -- Make technical fixes to Caregiver Act (PL 111-163) relating to VA personnel provisions. -- Request for oversight of Veterans Benefit Administration personnel issues, including performance standards and training. -- Request for oversight of VA health care personnel issues, including recruitment and retention of VA physicians and registered nurses.
FY 2013 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees.Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors. S. 2170, the Hatch Act Modernization Act of 2012, provisions addressing outdated and unclear restrictions of political activities of federal and DC Government employees and to ensure DC employees are treated the same as state or local workers for purposes of the Hatch Act.
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Possible changes to recently passed health care reform legislation.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
AFGE is part of a coalition of 28 health organizations and labor unions urging support of Health and Human Services's funding request to appropriate $2 billion for research, vaccine purchases, and related activities. HR 4489, The FEHBP Prescription Drug Integrity, Transparency, and Cost Savings Act - support of bill and use of Pharmacy Benefit Managers to ensure fairness to taxpayers and enrollees.
FY 2013 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2013 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors. S. 2170, the Hatch Act Modernization Act of 2012, provisions addressing outdated and unclear restrictions of political activities of federal and DC Government employees and to ensure DC employees are treated the same as state or local workers for purposes of the Hatch Act.
S 572/HR 807, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 572/HR 807 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights over compensation matters as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities. HR 2965 - to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for penalties for employees of the Veterans Health Administration who intentionally fail to follow infection control practices. HR 2349, Veterans' Benefits Act of 2011 - provisions that could expose VBA claims processing personnel to unwarranted adverse actions; requirement of biannual assessment testing but does not ensure fair testing process; and links remediation and adverse personnel actions; includes provisions that could weaken requirements for statutory notices to veterans appealing benefit claims by overrelying on electronic notices and reducing the number of notices. HR 3670/S 1990 - provisions requiring Transportation Administration to comply with the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). S 3084, VISN Reorganization Act of 2012, provision regarding arbitrary reduction in VISN structure and functions with no labor input and expansion of private sector role. S 3233/HR 6015, Service Members Access to Justice Act of 2012, provision regarding improving enforcement of USERRA rights. S 572/HR 807, provision to provide Title 38 employees with equal bargaining rights over compensatory matters. S 3052, provision to require notice to veterans who file claims electronically of services from veterans' groups. S 1859, expanding veterans preference appeal rights to FAA and TSA employees. S 1849, Rural Veterans Health Care Improvement Act, provision that could expand use of non-VA care. S 1823/HR 1811, National Guard Employment Protection Act of 2011, provision to expand USERRA coverage to National Guard. HR 2074/S 1689, to prevent sexual assault at VA facilities; and provision to expand non-VA care for Traumatic Brain Injury. S 1631, to establish technical assistance center for non-VA providers at rural health care services. S 1089, to apply pay-for-performance to VA outpatient clinics run by contractors. HR 1484, provision to allow new evidence for veterans' claims on appeal to be submitted directly to Board of Veterans Appeals instead of Regional Office.
FY 2013 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2013 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. S 95/HR 1941, Hiring Heroes Act, provision that would create a new direct hire authority to offer federal jobs to every veteran within the first 180 days after an honorable discharge from active duty. S 743, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. S 2170, the Hatch Act Modernization Act, provisions to allow state and local workers to run for political office. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. HR 3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 1175/S 1645, Pepper Spray bill - provisions dealing with Bureau of Prisons management policy changes, including the use of non-lethal weaponry. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years. S 3221, RAISE Act, lobbied against giving an employer the right to ignore a negotiated and ratified collective bargaining agreement. Lobbied against Congressional Republican leadership proposal to extend current rate for student loans for one year by permanently raising taxes sole on middle income federal employees. S 2049 and HR 2977, lobbied to transition to the use of $1 coins and to end the use of $1 bills.
FY 2013 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic industrial facilities. Also, to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. S. 3254, section 341, to cut funding for civilian personnel by 5% and require elimination of 18,000 to 37,000 by 2017. HR.3980/ HR 3851/ HR 3893, anti-insourcing provisions advocating for small businesses. FY 2013 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. HR 5854, opposing provisions to freeze salaries of civilians in DoD and DVA for third year.
FY 2013 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2013 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services (Sessions Amendment targeting CIS Information Officers and other specific occupations and job titles changes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. S 772, Secure Facilities Act of 2011, Federal Protective Service reform for adequately staffing and funding of this Homeland Security Agency. HR 3116/S 1546 - DHS Authorization Act of 2011/FY 2012 - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, and sourcing of federal employees in these agencies. HR 3011 TSA Authorization Act - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, working conditions, and sourcing of TSA federal employees. Lobbied against Stop TSA's Reach in Policy (STRIP) and Restoring Integrity and Good-Heartedness to the Traveler Screening (RIGHTS) bills to "protect" passengers from perceived mistreatment by TSOs.
FY 2013 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2013 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
S 572/HR 807, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 572/HR 807 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights over compensation matters as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities. HR 2965 - to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for penalties for employees of the Veterans Health Administration who intentionally fail to follow infection control practices. HR 2349, Veterans' Benefits Act of 2011 - provisions that could expose VBA claims processing personnel to unwarranted adverse actions; requirement of biannual assessment testing but does not ensure fair testing process; and links remediation and adverse personnel actions; includes provisions that could weaken requirements for statutory notices to veterans appealing benefit claims by overrelying on electronic notices and reducing the number of notices. HR 3670/S 1990 - provisions requiring Transportation Administration to comply with the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). S 3084, VISN Reorganization Act of 2012, provision regarding arbitrary reduction in VISN structure and functions with no labor input and expansion of private sector role. S 3233/HR 6015, Service Members Access to Justice Act of 2012, provision regarding improving enforcement of USERRA rights. S 572/HR 807, provision to provide Title 38 employees with equal bargaining rights over compensatory matters. S 3052, provision to require notice to veterans who file claims electronically of services from veterans' groups. S 1859, expanding veterans preference appeal rights to FAA and TSA employees. S 1849, Rural Veterans Health Care Improvement Act, provision that could expand use of non-VA care. S 1823/HR 1811, National Guard Employment Protection Act of 2011, provision to expand USERRA coverage to National Guard. HR 2074/S 1689, to prevent sexual assault at VA facilities; and provision to expand non-VA care for Traumatic Brain Injury. S 1631, to establish technical assistance center for non-VA providers at rural health care services. S 1089, to apply pay-for-performance to VA outpatient clinics run by contractors. HR 1484, provision to allow new evidence for veterans' claims on appeal to be submitted directly to Board of Veterans Appeals instead of Regional Office.
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Possible changes to recently passed health care reform legislation. S 582/HR 1118, S. Amdt. 207, regarding Social Security benefits for current and future beneficiaries. These benefits should not be cut and the Social Security program should not be privatized as part of any legislation to reduce the federal budget deficit.
FY 2013 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors. S. 2170, the Hatch Act Modernization Act of 2012, provisions addressing outdated and unclear restrictions of political activities of federal and DC Government employees and to ensure DC employees are treated the same as state or local workers for purposes of the Hatch Act.
FY 2013 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic industrial facilities. Also, to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. S. 3254, section 341, to cut funding for civilian personnel by 5% and require elimination of 18,000 to 37,000 by 2017. HR.3980/ HR 3851/ HR 3893, anti-insourcing provisions advocating for small businesses. FY 2013 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. HR 5854, opposing provisions to freeze salaries of civilians in DoD and DVA for third year.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2013 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic industrial facilities. Also, to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. S. 3254, section 341, to cut funding for civilian personnel by 5% and require elimination of 18,000 to 37,000 by 2017. HR.3980/ HR 3851/ HR 3893, anti-insourcing provisions advocating for small businesses. FY 2013 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76. HR 5854, opposing provisions to freeze salaries of civilians in DoD and DVA for third year.
AFGE is part of a coalition of 28 health organizations and labor unions urging support of Health and Human Services's funding request to appropriate $2 billion for research, vaccine purchases, and related activities. HR 4489, The FEHBP Prescription Drug Integrity, Transparency, and Cost Savings Act - support of bill and use of Pharmacy Benefit Managers to ensure fairness to taxpayers and enrollees.
FY 2013 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
S 572/HR 807, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 572/HR 807 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights over compensation matters as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities. HR 2965 - to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for penalties for employees of the Veterans Health Administration who intentionally fail to follow infection control practices. HR 2433, Veterans Opportunity to Work Act of 2011- provisions related to increases in use of contractors for veterans training and jobs programs. S 951/HR 1941, Hiring Heroes Act of 2011 - Section 10 that would provide federal jobs to newly discharged veterans through direct hire authority. HR 2383, Modernizing Notice to Claimants Act - provisions that could weaken requirements for statutory notices to veterans appealing benefit claims by overrelying on electronic notices and reducing the number of notices. HR 2349, Veterans' Benefits Act of 2011 - provisions that could expose VBA claims processing personnel to unwarranted adverse actions; requirement of biannual assessment testing but does not ensure fair testing process; and links remediation and adverse personnel actions. HR 3670/S 1990 - provisions requiring Transportation Administration to comply with the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA).
FY 2013 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services (Sessions Amendment targeting CIS Information Officers and other specific occupations and job titles changes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. Lobbied against Stop TSA's Reach in Policy (STRIP) and Restoring Integrity and Good-Heartedness to the Traveler Screening (RIGHTS) bills to "protect" passengers from perceived mistreatment by TSOs. S 772, Secure Facilities Act of 2011, Federal Protective Service reform for adequately staffing and funding of this Homeland Security Agency. HR 3116/S 1546 - DHS Authorization Act of 2011/FY 2012 - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, and sourcing of federal employees in these agencies. HR 3011 TSA Authorization Act - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, working conditions, and sourcing of TSA federal employees.
FY 2013 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors. S. 2170, the Hatch Act Modernization Act of 2012, provisions addressing outdated and unclear restrictions of political activities of federal and DC Government employees.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2013 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors.
FY 2013 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2013 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. S 95/HR 1941, Hiring Heroes Act, provision that would create a new direct hire authority to offer federal jobs to every veteran within the first 180 days after an honorable discharge from active duty. S 743, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. H.R.3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 1175/S 1645, Pepper Spray bill - provisions dealing with Bureau of Prisons management policy changes, including the use of non-lethal weaponry. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years.
FY 2013 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2013 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services (Sessions Amendment targeting CIS Information Officers and other specific occupations and job titles changes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. S 772, Secure Facilities Act of 2011, Federal Protective Service reform for adequately staffing and funding of this Homeland Security Agency. HR 3116/S 1546 - DHS Authorization Act of 2011/FY 2012 - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, and sourcing of federal employees in these agencies. HR 3011 TSA Authorization Act - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, working conditions, and sourcing of TSA federal employees.
FY 2013 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic industrial facilities. Also, to include more favorable language on direct conversions and contractor inventories and to lift the cap on civilian employees. FY 2013 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing, and to retain government-wide prohibition against A-76.
S 572/HR 807, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 572/HR 807 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights over compensation matters as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities. HR 2965 - to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for penalties for employees of the Veterans Health Administration who intentionally fail to follow infection control practices. HR 2433, Veterans Opportunity to Work Act of 2011- provisions related to increases in use of contractors for veterans training and jobs programs. S 951/HR 1941, Hiring Heroes Act of 2011 - Section 10 that would provide federal jobs to newly discharged veterans through direct hire authority. HR 2383, Modernizing Notice to Claimants Act - provisions that could weaken requirements for statutory notices to veterans appealing benefit claims by overrelying on electronic notices and reducing the number of notices. HR 2349, Veterans' Benefits Act of 2011 - provisions that could expose VBA claims processing personnel to unwarranted adverse actions; requirement of biannual assessment testing but does not ensure fair testing process; and links remediation and adverse personnel actions. HR 3670/S 1990 - provisions requiring Transportation Administration to comply with the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA).
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2012 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services (Sessions Amendment targeting CIS Information Officers and other specificoccupations and job titles changes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. S 772, Secure Facilities Act of 2011, Federal Protective Service reform for adequately staffing and funding of this Homeland Security Agency. HR 3116/S 1546 - DHS Authorization Act of 2011/FY 2012 - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, and sourcing of federal employees in these agencies. HR 3011 TSA Authorization Act- provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, working conditions, and sourcing of TSA federal employees. .
FY 2012 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
S 572/HR 807, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 572/HR 807 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights over compensation matters as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities.HR 2965 - to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for penalties for employees of the Veterans Health Administration who intentionally fail to follow infection control practices. HR 2433, Veterans Opportunity to Work Act of 2011- provisions related to increases in use of contractors for veterans training and jobs programs. S 951/HR 1941, Hiring Heroes Act of 2011 - Section 10 that would provide federal jobs to newly discharged veterans through direct hire authority. HR 2383, Modernizing Notice to Claimants Act - provisions that could weaken requirements for statutory notices to veterans appealing benefit claims by overrelying on electronic notices and reducing number of notices. HR 2349, Veterans' Benefits Act of 2011 - provisions that could expose VBA claims processing personnel to unwarranted adverse actions; requirement of biannual assessment testing but does not ensure fair testing process; and links remediation and adverse personnel actions.
FY 2012 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC.FY 2012 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. S 95/HR 1941, Hiring Heroes Act, provision that would create a new direct hire authority to offer federal jobs to every veteran within the first 180 days after an honorable discharge from active duty. S 743, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. H.R.3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 1175, Pepper Spray bill - provisions dealing with Bureau of Prisons management policy changes, including the use of non-lethal weaponry. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years.
FY 2012 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees.Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors.
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Possible changes to recently passed health care reform legislation.S 582/HR 1118, S. Amdt. 207, regarding Social Security benefits for current and future beneficiaries. These benefits should not be cut and the Social Security program should not be privatized as part of any legislation to reduce the federal budget deficit.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2012 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors.
FY 2012 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2012 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. S 95/HR 1941, Hiring Heroes Act, provision that would create a new direct hire authority to offer federal jobs to every veteran within the first 180 days after an honorable discharge from active duty. S 743, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. H.R.3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 1175, Pepper Spray bill - provisions dealing with Bureau of Prisons management policy changes, including the use of non-lethal weaponry. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years.
FY 2012 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Possible changes to recently passed health care reform legislation. S 582/HR 1118, S. Amdt. 207, regarding Social Security benefits for current and future beneficiaries. These benefits should not be cut and the Social Security program should not be privatized as part of any legislation to reduce the federal budget deficit.
FY 2012 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
FY 2012 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic industrial facilities. FY 2012 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing.
FY 2012 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services (Sessions Amendment targeting CIS Information Officers and other specific occupations and job titles changes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. S 772, Secure Facilities Act of 2011, Federal Protective Service reform for adequately staffing and funding of this Homeland Security Agency. HR 3116/S 1546 - DHS Authorization Act of 2011/FY 2012 - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, and sourcing of federal employees in these agencies. HR 3011 TSA Authorization Act - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, working conditions, and sourcing of TSA federal employees.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2012 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2012 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (reform of current overtime system), Citizenship and Immigration Services (Sessions Amendment targeting CIS Information Officers and other specific occupations and job titles changes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. S 772, Secure Facilities Act of 2011, Federal Protective Service reform for adequately staffing and funding of this Homeland Security Agency. HR 3116/S 1546 - DHS Authorization Act of 2011/FY 2012 - provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, and sourcing of federal employees in these agencies. HR 3011 TSA Authorization Act- provisions that may affect the pay, benefits, working conditions, and sourcing of TSA federal employees. .
FY 2012 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Provisions related to programs and policies impacting industrial facilities, specifically related to depot maintenance, arsenals, and organic industrial facilities. FY 2012 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing.
S 572/HR 807, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 572/HR 807 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights over compensation matters as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities. HR 2965 - to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for penalties for employees of the Veterans Health Administration who intentionally fail to follow infection control practices. HR 2433, Veterans Opportunity to Work Act of 2011- provisions related to increases in use of contractors for veterans training and jobs programs. S 951/HR 1941, Hiring Heroes Act of 2011 - Section 10 that would provide federal jobs to newly discharged veterans through direct hire authority. HR 2383, Modernizing Notice to Claimants Act - provisions that could weaken requirements for statutory notices to veterans appealing benefit claims by overrelying on electronic notices and reducing number of notices. HR 2349, Veterans' Benefits Act of 2011 - provisions that could expose VBA claims processing personnel to unwarranted adverse actions; requirement of biannual assessment testing but does not ensure fair testing process; and links remediation and adverse personnel actions.
FY 2012 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors.
FY 2012 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2012 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. S 95/HR 1941, Hiring Heroes Act, provision that would create a new direct hire authority to offer federal jobs to every veteran within the first 180 days after an honorable discharge from active duty. S 743, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. H.R.3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 1175, Pepper Spray bill - provisions dealing with Bureau of Prisons management policy changes, including the use of non-lethal weaponry. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2012 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
FY 2012 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. FY 2012 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing.
FY 2012 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2012 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 572/HR 807 - provisions to provide health care professionals with equal rights to bargain over compensation matters. S 95/HR 1941, Hiring Heroes Act, provision that would create a new direct hire authority to offer federal jobs to every veteran within the first 180 days after an honorable discharge from active duty. S 743, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. H.R.3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 1175, Pepper Spray bill - provisions dealing with Bureau of Prisons management policy changes, including the use of non-lethal weaponry. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units. HR 1470, provision to extend the probationary period for federal workers from one year to two years.
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Possible changes to recently passed health care reform legislation. S 582/HR 1118, S. Amdt. 207, regarding Social Security benefits for current and future beneficiaries. These benefits should not be cut and the Social Security program should not be privatized as part of any legislation to reduce the federal budget deficit.
FY 2012 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors.
FY 2012 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2011/12 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2011/12 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 616, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 362/HR 949 - provision to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistants, and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care). S 743, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. HR 828 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 1169, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions to correct outdated sections in current laws that harm Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issues, including dual status and retiree health care. H.R.3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 324, to amend Title 10 USC to provide federal Civilian Police Officers, Civilian Criminal Investigators, and Civilian Game Law Enforcement Officers in the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. HR 1175, Pepper Spray bill - provisions dealing with Bureau of Prisons management policy changes, including the use of non-lethal weaponry. HR 658, FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, in regards to official time use of elected volunteer federal employee union representatives at FAA to engage in representation responsibilities on behalf of employees in their collective bargaining units.
FY 2011/12 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. FY 2012 Financial Services Appropriations bill - provisions regarding pay, benefits, and sourcing.
S 572/HR 807, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 572/HR 807 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights over compensation matters as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities.
FY 2011/12 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.
FY 2011/12 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors. Approval of the FY 2011 DC budget in the Continuing Resolution.
FY 2011/12 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2011 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2011 Defense Appropriations and Authorization- provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Department of Defense purchase of Unicorp goods and services.
AFGE is part of a coalition of 28 health organizations and labor unions urging support of Health and Human Services's funding request to appropriate $2 billion for research, vaccine purchases, and related activities. HR 4489, The FEHBP Prescription Drug Integrity, Transparency, and Cost Savings Act - support of bill and use of Pharmacy Benefit Managers to ensure fairness to taxpayers and enrollees.
FY 2010 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
S 362/HR 949, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 362/HR 949 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities. HR 5145, Assuring Quality Care for Veterans Act, which seeks to increase reimbursement of VA Health Care Professionals' expenses for continuing medical education. HR 5542/S 3456, seeks to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights over compensation matters, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting additional compensation through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 3517, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2010, strives to improve the processing of claims for disability compensation filed with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Amendment to S 3517, directing OPM to develop an action plan and legislative language for a pay for performance system for VA employees, especially, employees of the Veterans Benefits Administration who process disability claims. HR 5120/S 3234, Veteran Employment Assistance Act of 2010, seeking to improve employment, training, and placement services furnished to veterans, especially those serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. S 3486/HR 5543, amending Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with compensation bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting compensation through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 362/HR 949 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same compensation bargaining rights as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities.
FY 2011 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors. Approval of the FY 2011 DC budget in the Continuing Resolution. FY 2011 Defense Authorization - provision allowing Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) staff hired between 1987-1997 to count all of their years of service for federal retirement eligibility.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2011 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2011 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 626/S 354, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act -- proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. HR 1722/S 707, Telework Improvements Act - provisions to increase amount of telework for eligible employees to at least 20% of the hours worked for every two work week period. HR 1881 - Transportation Security Workforce Enhancement Act, provision to grant TSOs true workplace rights and protections as other federal employees. S 362/HR 949 - provision to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistants, and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care). HR 1507/S 372, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. S 1963 - Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Healthy Services Act; including personnel provisions impacting VA health care professionals' pay and scheduling, and converting Title 5 Nursing Assistants to Hybrid Title 38 personnel system. HR 4832, One America, Many Voices Act, to grant federal employees whose position descriptions require a multilingual skill a 5% pay differential. HR 4735 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 3345, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions on Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issue including dual status and retiree health care. H.R.3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 1990, Pepper Spray bill - provisions dealing with Bureau of Prisons management policy changes, including the use of non-lethal weaponry. H.R.4239 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, to provide statutory relief from 10% early withdrawal penalty for BOP correctional workers who participate in the Thrift Savings Plan.
FY 2011 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.
S 362/HR 949, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 362/HR 949 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities. HR 5145, Assuring Quality Care for Veterans Act, which seeks to increase reimbursement of VA Health Care Professionals' expenses for continuing medical education. HR 5542/S 3456, seeks to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights over compensation matters, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting additional compensation through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 3517, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2010, strives to improve the processing of claims for disability compensation filed with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Amendment to S 3517, directing OPM to develop an action plan and legislative language for a pay for performance system for VA employees, especially, employees of the Veterans Benefits Administration who process disability claims. HR 5120/S 3234, Veteran Employment Assistance Act of 2010, seeking to improve employment, training, and placement services furnished to veterans, especially those serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. S 3486/HR 5543, amending Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with compensation bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting compensation through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 362/HR 949 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same compensation bargaining rights as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities.
FY 2011 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2010 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
FY 2011 Defense Appropriations and Authorization- provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Department of Defense purchase of Unicorp goods and services.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2011 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2011 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 626/S 354, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act -- proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. HR 1722/S 707, Telework Improvements Act - provisions to increase amount of telework for eligible employees to at least 20% of the hours worked for every two work week period. HR 1881 - Transportation Security Workforce Enhancement Act, provision to grant TSOs true workplace rights and protections as other federal employees. S 362/HR 949 - provision to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistants, and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care). HR 1507/S 372, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. S 1963 - Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Healthy Services Act; including personnel provisions impacting VA health care professionals' pay and scheduling, and converting Title 5 Nursing Assistants to Hybrid Title 38 personnel system. HR 4832, One America, Many Voices Act, to grant federal employees whose position descriptions require a multilingual skill a 5% pay differential. HR 4735 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 3345, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions on Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issue including dual status and retiree health care. H.R.3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 1990, Pepper Spray bill - provisions dealing with Bureau of Prisons management policy changes, including the use of non-lethal weaponry. H.R.4239 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, to provide statutory relief from 10% early withdrawal penalty for BOP correctional workers who participate in the Thrift Savings Plan.
S 362/HR 949, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 362/HR 949 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities. HR 5145, Assuring Quality Care for Veterans Act, which seeks to increase reimbursement of VA Health Care Professionals' expenses for continuing medical education. HR 5542/S 3456, seeks to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights over compensation matters, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting additional compensation through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 3517, Claims Processing Improvement Act of 2010, strives to improve the processing of claims for disability compensation filed with the Department of Veterans Affairs. HR 5120/S 3234, Veteran Employment Assistance Act of 2010, seeking to improve employment, training, and placement services furnished to veterans, especially those serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
FY 2011 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors. FY 2011 Defense Authorization - provision allowing Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) staff hired between 1987-1997 to count all of their years of service for federal retirement eligibility.
FY 2010 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees, particularly in Greenville Transmitting Station in North Carolina.
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Possible changes to recently passed health care reform legislation.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2011 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.
FY 2011 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2011 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 626/S 354 - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. HR 1722/S 707, Telework Improvements Act - provisions to increase amount of telework for eligible employees to at least 20% of the hours worked for every two work week period. HR 1881 - Transportation Security Workforce Enhancement Act, provision to grant TSOs true workplace rights and protections as other federal employees. S 362/HR 949 - provision to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistants, and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care). HR 1507/S 372, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits. S 1963 - Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Healthy Services Act of 2009; including personnel provisions impacting VA health care professionals' pay and scheduling, and converting Title 5 Nursing Assistants to Hybrid Title 38 personnel system. HR 4832, One America, Many Voices Act, to grant federal employees whose position descriptions require a multilingual skill a 5% pay differential. HR 4735 - proposal to terminate federal employees who have seriously delinquent tax debt due the Internal Revenue Service. HR 1383, Air Force Depot Workers Fairness Act - provision on compensatory time and a half. HR 3345, National Guard Technician Equity Act - provisions on Title 32 National Guard and Reserve issue including dual status and retiree health care. H.R.3493, Locality Pay Equity Act - provisions to align blue collar and white collar wage areas. HR 673 and HR 675, Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - provisions to provide law enforcement officer status to many different groups of federal employees. HR 1990, Pepper Spray bill - provisions dealing with Bureau of Prisons management policy changes, including the use of non-lethal weaponry. H.R.4239 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, to provide statutory relief from 10% early withdrawal penalty for BOP correctional workers who participate in the Thrift Savings Plan.
FY 2011 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. Enforcement of DC and federal law, and collective bargaining agreements involving increased oversight of the conversion of public worker jobs to private contractors. FY 2011 Defense Authorization - provision allowing Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) staff hired between 1987-1997 to count all of their years of service for federal retirement eligibility.
Possible bill to increase the federal government's share of health benefits premiums for its employees and retirees. Possible changes to recently passed health care reform legislation.
FY 2011 Defense Appropriations and Authorization- provisions on contracting out of federal employee jobs. Department of Defense purchase of Unicorp goods and services.
FY 2010 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees. Provisions that adversely affect Voice of America Employees.
FY 2011 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
AFGE is part of a coalition of 28 health organizations and labor unions urging support of Health and Human Services's funding request to appropriate $2 billion for research, vaccine purchases, and related activities.
FY 2010 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. FY 2010 Defense Authorization - provision allowing Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) staff hired between 1987-1997 to count all of their years of service for federal retirement eligibility.
FY 2010 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on DeCA A-76 moratorium, depot maintenance, civilian personnel issues (NSPS provisions for restoration of collective bargaining rights and appeal rights), suspension of new OMB circular A-76 privatization study in DoD, Performance Based Organizations, Demonstrations Projects, contracting out for Security Guards and firefighter functions, and BRAC. Also Report language of Defense Department purchases of Federal Prisons Industries' goods and services.
FY 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration.
FY 2010 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees.
H.Con.Res. 85/S.Con.Res. 13, FY 2010 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget. S 423/HR 1016, bills to authorize advance appropriations for VA health care - provisions to reform the VA health care funding process and enhance Congress' ability to better predict and oversee health care spending. S 252, bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - to enhance the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health care professionals and to improve the provision of health care to veterans. HR 919, bill to amend Title 38 to enhance the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health care professionals. S 597, Women's Veterans Health Improvement Act of 2008 - provisions to identify and address needs of women veterans and their families through research, training and certification programs, and participation on VA advisory committees. S 362/HR 949, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective bargaining rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations, and negotiations. S 362/HR 949 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities. HR 1302 - provision to establish a full-time Director of Physician Assistant Services with the Department of Veterans Affairs. S 658 - provisions to improve access to health care for rural veterans. Recommending an increase in the mileage rate and greater oversight of contract care program (such as Project HERO, VA's contract health care program already underway) to include collection of data comparing amount of travel required for visits to contract care facilities to amount of travel required to receive care at nearest VA facility; and its resulting impact on VA's capacity to provide services in-house. S801/HR 2342, bill to provide support services to family caregivers of severely injured or disabled veterans. HR 1016/S 423, HRes 804, bills to provide advance appropriations for VA health care.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
H.Con.Res. 85/S.Con.Res. 13, FY 2010 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget. S 423/HR 1016, bills to authorize advance appropriations for VA health care - provisions to reform the VA health care funding process and enhance Congress' ability to better predict and oversee health care spending. S 252, bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - to enhance the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health-care professionals and to improve the provision of health care to veterans. HR 919, bill to amend Title 38 to enhance the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health care professionals. S 597, Women's Veterans Health Improvement Act of 2008 - provisions to identify and address needs of women veterans and their families through research, training and certification programs, and participation on VA advisory committees. S 362/HR 949, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations and negotiations. S 362/HR 949 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities. HR 1302 - provision to establish a full-time Director of Physician Assistant Services with the Department of Veterans Affairs. S 658 - provisions to improve access to health care for rural veterans. Recommending an increase in the mileage rate and greater oversight of contract care program (such as Project HERO, VA's contract health care program already underway) to include collection of data comparing amount of travel required for visits to contract care facilities to amount of travel required to receive care at nearest VA facility; and its resulting impact on VA's capacity to provide services in-house. S8 01/HR 2342, bill to provide support services to family caregivers of severely injured or disabled veterans. HR 1016/S 423, HRes 804 bills to provide advance appropriations for VA health care.
FY 2010 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on DeCA A-76 moratorium, depot maintenance, civilian personnel issues (NSPS provisions for restoration of collective bargaining rights and appeal rights), suspension of new OMB circular A-76 privatization study in DoD, Performance Based Organizations, Demonstrations Projects, contracting out for Security Guards and firefighter functions, and BRAC. Also Report language of Defense Department purchases of Federal Prisons Industries' goods and services.
FY 2010 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. FY 2010 Defense Authorization - provision allowing Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) staff hired between 1987-1997 to count all of their years of service for federal retirement eligibility.
FY 2010 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees and Voice of America employees.
AFGE is part of a coalition of 28 health organizations and labor unions urging support of Health and Human Services's funding request to appropriate $2 billion for research, vaccine purchases, and related activities.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2010 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2010 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees.
FY 2010 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. HR 1804, Federal Retirement Reform Act, provision providing credit for time in-service for DC Court Service and Offenders Supervision Agency employees prior to transfer of agency to federal government.
H.Con.Res. 85/S.Con.Res. 13, FY 2010 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget. S 423/HR 1016, bills to authorize advance appropriations for VA health care - provisions to reform the VA health care funding process and enhance Congress' ability to better predict and oversee health care spending. S 252, bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - to enhance the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health-care professionals and to improve the provision of health care to veterans. HR 919, bill to amend Title 38 to enhance the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health care professionals. S 597, Women's Veterans Health Improvement Act of 2008 - provisions to identify and address needs of women veterans and their families through research, training and certification programs, and participation on VA advisory committees. S 362/HR 949, to amend Section 7422 of Title 38, which provides medical professionals with collective rights, including the right to resolve disputes with management over matters affecting working conditions through grievances, arbitrations and negotiations. S 362/HR 949 would give VA registered nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, and dentists the same bargaining rights as their counterparts in military hospitals and prison facilities. HR 1302 - provision to establish a full-time Director of Physician Assistant Services with the Department of Veterans Affairs. S 658 - provisions to improve access to health care for rural veterans. Recommending an increase in the mileage rate and greater oversight of contract care program (such as Project HERO, VA's contract health care program already underway) to include collection of data comparing amount of travel required for visits to contract care facilities to amount of travel required to receive care at nearest VA facility; and its resulting impact on VA's capacity to provide services in-house. S801/HR 2342, bill to provide support services to family caregivers of severely injured or disabled veterans.
FY 2010 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2010 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 626/S 354 - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. HR 1722/S 707, Telework Improvements Act - provisions to increase amount of telework for eligible employees to at least 20% of the hours worked for every two work week period. HR 1881 - Transportation Security Workforce Enhancement Act, provision to grant TSOs true workplace rights and protections as other federal employees. HR 949 - provision to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistants, and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care). HR 1507/S 372, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, provisions to reform protection from retaliation for disclosure of fraud, waste, and abuse. HR 1409/S 560, Employee Free Choice Act, establishment of a pro-worker system for employees to form, join, or assist a labor organization thus assuring workers the right to bargain for better working conditions, wages, and benefits.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2010 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees.
FY 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. Whistleblower Amendment to HR 1, Economic Stimulus Package - provisions to clarify which disclosures of information are protected from prohibited personnel practices; to require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements to the effect that they conform with certain disclosure protections.
FY 2010 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on DeCA A-76 moratorium, depot maintenance, civilian personnel issues (NSPS provisions for restoration of collective bargaining rights and appeal rights), suspension of new OMB circular A-76 privatization study in DoD, Performance Based Organizations, Demonstrations Projects, contracting out for Security Guards and firefighter functions, and BRAC.
AFGE is part of a coalition of 28 health organizations and labor unions urging support of Health and Human Services's funding request to appropriate $2 billion for research, vaccine purchases, and related activities.
FY 2010 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees.
FY 2010 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2010 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 626 - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. HR 1722, Telework Improvements Act - provisions to increase amount of telework for eligible employees to at least 20% of the hours worked for every two work week period. HR 1, Whistleblower Amendment to grant Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) whistleblower protections and prevent retaliation from their supervisors and the right to appeal decisions to the MSPB. HR 1881 - to grant TSOs true workplace rights and protections as other federal employees. HR 949 - provision to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistants, and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care).
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2009 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2009 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 5781/HR 3799 - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 1000/HR 4106, Telework Improvements Act - provisions to increase amount of telework for eligible employees to at least 20% of the hours worked for every two work week period. HR 985/S 494, Whistleblower Reform Bill - provisos to grant Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) whistleblower protections and prevent retaliation from their supervisors and the right to appeal decisions to the MSPB. HR 3212 - to grant TSOs true workplace rights and protections as other federal employees. HR 3551/S 2057, MSPB Reauthorization - provisions relating to adjudication of federal workers' rights and protections. HR 4089/HR 2824, provision to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistant and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care). Testimony: April 2, 2008, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies on "FY 2009 Funding for the Bureau of Prisons" April 9, 2008, Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs on "Making the VA the Workplace of Choice for Health Care Providers" April 23, 2008, House Committee on Ways and Means on "Clearing the Disability Backlog--Giving the Social Security Administration the Resources it Needs to Provide the Benefits Workers Have Earned" April 29, 2008, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia on "Catching Up: Benefits That Will Help Recruit and Retain Federal Employees" May 2, 2008, Senate Committee on Finance on "More Work, Less Resources: Social Security Field Offices Struggle to Deliver Service to the Public" May 8, 2008, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, on "From Candidates to Change Makers: Recruiting and Hiring the Next Generation of Federal Employees" May 21, 2008, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on "Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Legislation" May 22, 2008, House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, on "Human Resources Challenges within the Veterans Health Administration" June 5, 2008, House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, on "Legislative Hearing"--Statement for the Record.
FY 2009 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees.
AFGE is part of a coalition of 28 health organizations and labor unions urging support of Health and Human Services's funding request to appropriate $2billion for research, vaccine purchases, and related activities.
FY 2009 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security (DHS Personnel Plan, renamed the Human Capital Operational Plan) of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. HR 985/S 274 - amendments to Title 5, U.S. Code - provisions to clarify which disclosures of information are protected from prohibited personnel practices; to require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements to the effect that they conform with certain disclosure protections.
FY 2009 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on DeCA A-76 moratorium, depot maintenance, civilian personnel issues (NSPS provisions for restoration of collective bargaining rights and appeal rights), contracting out A-76, privatization, Performance Based Organizations, Demonstrations Projects, contracting out for Security Guards and firefighter functions, and BRAC.
FY 2009 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. HR 5600, DC Court, Offender Supervision, Parole, and Public Defender Employer Equity Act of 2008 - provisions on the calculation calculation of years of service being transferred and counted toward retirement.
FY 2009 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
AFGE is part of a coalition of 28 health organizations and labor unions urging support of Health and Human Services's funding request to appropriate $2billion for research, vaccine purchases, and related activities.
FY 2009 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2009 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees.
FY 2009 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. HR 5600, DC Court, Offender Supervision, Parole, and Public Defender Employer Equity Act of 2008 - provisions on the calculation calculation of years of service being transferred and counted toward retirement.
FY 2009 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on DeCA A-76 moratorium, depot maintenance, civilian personnel issues (NSPS provisions for restoration of collective bargaining rights and appeal rights), contracting out A-76, privatization, Performance Based Organizations, Demonstrations Projects, contracting out for Security Guards and firefighter functions, and BRAC.
FY 2009 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security (DHS Personnel Plan, renamed the Human Capital Operational Plan) of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. HR 985/S 274 - amendments to Title 5, U.S. Code - provisions to clarify which disclosures of information are protected from prohibited personnel practices; to require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements to the effect that they conform with certain disclosure protections.
H.Con.Res. 312/S.Con.Res. 70, FY 2009 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget. FY 2008 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, Hurricane Recovery, and provisions for additional funding for Department of Veterans Affairs health care. HR 2790 - provision to establish a full-time Director of Physician Assistant Services with the Department of Veterans Affairs. HR 5892, Veterans Disability Benefits Claims Modernization Act of 2008 - provisions to make comprehensive and significant improvement in VBA disability claims processing. S 2799, Women's Veterans Health Improvement Act of 2008 - provisions to improve the quality and access to medical and mental health care for women. HR 4231 - proposal to pilot a voucher system for VA mental health services. S 2984, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions to expand and enhance veterans' benefits. S 2969/HR 6153, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions to increase the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health-care professionals. S 2889, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code - provisions to improve veterans' health care benefits. S 1881/HR 3195, a bill to amend the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - provisions to restore the intent and protections of the Act. S 2639/HR 2514, a bill to amend Title 39, United States Code - provisions to assure an adequate level of funding for veterans' health care. HR 2123, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act - provisions to establish direct care of registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals. S 2377/HR 4463, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions relating to improving the quality of care provided to veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities and the recruitment of highly qualified doctors to hard to fill positions in these facilities. HR 5888, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions for expansion of veteran eligibility for reimbursement by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for emergency treatment furnished in a non-Department facility. HR 6122, a bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to develop and implement a comprehensive policy on pain management as experienced by veterans who are enrolled for health care services provided by the VA. Testimony: April 9, 2008, Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs on "Making the VA the Workplace of Choice for Health Care Providers" May 21, 2008, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on "Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Legislation" May 22, 2008, House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, on "Human Resource Challenges with the Veterans Health Administration" June 5, 2008, House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, on "Legislative Hearing"--Statement for the Record.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2009 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees.
FY 2009 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on DeCA A-76 moratorium, depot maintenance, civilian personnel issues (NSPS provisions for restoration of collective bargaining rights and appeal rights), suspension of new OMB circular A-76 privatization study in DoD, Performance Based Organizations, Demonstrations Projects, contracting out for Security Guards and firefighter functions, and BRAC.
AFGE is part of a coalition of 28 health organizations and labor unions urging support of Health and Human Services's funding request to appropriate $2 billion for research, vaccine purchases, and related activities.
FY 2009 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2009 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 5781/HR 3799 - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 1000/HR 4106, Telework Improvements Act - provisions to increase amount of telework for eligible employees to at least 20% of the hours worked for every two work week period. HR 985/S 274, Whistleblower Reform Bill - provisions to grant Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) whistleblower protections and prevent retaliation from their supervisors and the right to appeal decisions to the MSPB. HR 3212 - to grant TSOs true workplace rights and protections as other federal employees. HR 3551/S 2057, MSPB Reauthorization - provisions relating to adjudication of federal workers' rights and protections. HR 4089/HR 2824, provision to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistants, and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care). HR 6339, Federal Employees Deserve to Volunteer on the Elections (FEDVOTE) Act of 2008 - provisions that allow federal employees to serve as non-partisan poll workers on election day; and their time off be counted as administrative leave with pay.
FY 2009 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees. HR 6258 - provisions to promote development and deployment of systems for the capture and storage of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel electric generation facilities; specifically, the need to include DoE's employees in the National Energy Technology Laboratory as a key player in the process.
H.Con.Res. 312/S.Con.Res. 70, FY 2009 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget. FY 2008 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, Hurricane Recovery, and provisions for additional funding for Department of Veterans Affairs health care. HR 2790 - provision to establish a full-time Director of Physician Assistant Services with the Department of Veterans Affairs. HR 5892, Veterans Disability Benefits Claims Modernization Act of 2008 - provisions making comprehensive and significant improvement in VBA disability claims processing. S 2799, Women's Veterans Health Improvement Act of 2008 - provisions to improve the quality and access to medical and mental health care for women. HR 4231 - proposal to pilot a voucher system for VA mental health services. S 2984, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions to expand and enhance veterans' benefits. S 2969/HR 6153, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions to increase the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health-care professionals. S 2889, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code - provisions to improve veterans' health care benefits. S 1881/HR 3195, a bill to amend the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - provisions to restore the intent and protections of the Act. S 2639/HR 2514, a bill to amend Title 39, United States Code - provisions to assure an adequate level of funding for veterans' health care. HR 2123, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act - provisions to establish direct care of registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals. S 2377/HR 4463, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions relating to improving the quality of care provided to veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities and the recruitment of highly qualified doctors to hard to fill positions in these facilities. HR 5888, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions for expansion of veteran eligibility for reimbursement by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for emergency treatment furnished in a non-Department facility. HR 6122, a bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to develop and implement a comprehensive policy on pain management as experienced by veterans who are enrolled for health care services provided by the VA. HR 1527, Project HERO, involving the VA initiative on contract health care.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2009 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security (DHS Personnel Plan, renamed the Human Capital Operational Plan) of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. HR 985/S 274 - amendments to Title 5, U.S. Code - provisions to clarify which disclosures of information are protected from prohibited personnel practices; to require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements to the effect that they conform with certain disclosure protections.
FY 2009 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees.
H.Con.Res. 312/S.Con.Res. 70, FY 2009 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget. FY 2008 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, Hurricane Recovery, and provisions for additional funding for Department of Veterans Affairs health care. HR 2790 - provision to establish a full-time Director of Physician Assistant Services with the Department of Veterans Affairs. HR 5892, Veterans Disability Benefits Claims Modernization Act of 2008 - provisions to make comprehensive and significant improvement in VBA disability claims processing. S 2799, Women's Veterans Health Improvement Act of 2008 - provisions to improve the quality and access to medical and mental health care for women. HR 4231 - proposal to pilot a voucher system for VA mental health services. S 2984, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions to expand and enhance veterans' benefits. S 2969/HR 6153, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions to increase the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health-care professionals. S 2889, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code - provisions to improve veterans' health care benefits. S 1881/HR 3195, a bill to amend the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - provisions to restore the intent and protections of the Act. S 2639/HR 2514, a bill to amend Title 39, United States Code - provisions to assure an adequate level of funding for veterans' health care. HR 2123, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act - provisions to establish direct care of registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals. S 2377/HR 4463, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions relating to improving the quality of care provided to veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities and the recruitment of highly qualified doctors to hard to fill positions in these facilities. HR 5888, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions for expansion of veteran eligibility for reimbursement by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for emergency treatment furnished in a non-Department facility. HR 6122, a bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to develop and implement a comprehensive policy on pain management as experienced by veterans who are enrolled for health care services provided by the VA. HR 1527, Project HERO, involving the VA initiative on contract health care.
FY 2009 Interior and Environmental Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees. HR 6258 - provisions to promote development and deployment of systems for the capture and storage of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel electric generation facilities; specifically, noting the need to include DoE's employees in the National Energy Technology Laboratory as a key player in the process.
FY 2009 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - provisions on contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees. HR 5600, DC Court, Offender Supervision, Parole, and Public Defender Employer Equity Act of 2008 - provisions on the calculation calculation of years of service being transferred and counted toward retirement.
FY 2009 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on DeCA A-76 moratorium, depot maintenance, civilian personnel issues (NSPS provisions for restoration of collective bargaining rights and appeal rights), suspension of new OMB circular A-76 privatization study in DoD, Performance Based Organizations, Demonstrations Projects, contracting out for Security Guards and firefighter functions, and BRAC.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2009 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations - amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the EEOC or to make reductions in force part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. FY 2009 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill - provisions on cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and increasing the Social Security Administration's administrative budget to ease processing backlog of more than 600,000 disability claims. HR 5781/HR 3799 - proposal to provide federal employees who are new parents or adoptive parents with eights weeks of full pay and benefits. S 1000/HR 4106, Telework Improvements Act - provisions to increase amount of telework for eligible employees to at least 20% of the hours worked for every two work week period. HR 985/S 494, Whistleblower Reform Bill - provisos to grant Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) whistleblower protections and prevent retaliation from their supervisors and the right to appeal decisions to the MSPB. HR 3212 - to grant TSOs true workplace rights and protections as other federal employees. HR 3551/S 2057, MSPB Reauthorization - provisions relating to adjudication of federal workers' rights and protections. HR 4089/HR 2824, provision to restore the rights of VA health care professionals to bargain and file grievances over workplace issues under Title 38 (RNs, physicians, physician assistant and other VA employees on front lines of VA health care). Testimony: April 2, 2008, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies on "FY 2009 Funding for the Bureau of Prisons" April 9, 2008, Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs on "Making the VA the Workplace of Choice for Health Care Providers" April 23, 2008, House Committee on Ways and Means on "Clearing the Disability Backlog--Giving the Social Security Administration the Resources it Needs to Provide the Benefits Workers Have Earned" April 29, 2008, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia on "Catching Up: Benefits That Will Help Recruit and Retain Federal Employees" May 2, 2008, Senate Committee on Finance on "More Work, Less Resources: Social Security Field Offices Struggle to Deliver Service to the Public" May 8, 2008, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, on "From Candidates to Change Makers: Recruiting and Hiring the Next Generation of Federal Employees" May 21, 2008, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on "Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Legislation" May 22, 2008, House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, on "Human Resources Challenges within the Veterans Health Administration" June 5, 2008, House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, on "Legislative Hearing"--Statement for the Record.
FY 2009 Homeland Security Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security (DHS Personnel Plan, renamed the Human Capital Operational Plan) of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. HR 985/S 274 - amendments to Title 5, U.S. Code - provisions to clarify which disclosures of information are protected from prohibited personnel practices; to require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements to the effect that they conform with certain disclosure protections.
H.Con.Res. 312/S.Con.Res. 70, FY 2009 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget. FY 2008 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, Hurricane Recovery, and provisions for additional funding for Department of Veterans Affairs health care. HR 2790 - provision to establish a full-time Director of Physician Assistant Services with the Department of Veterans Affairs. HR 5892, Veterans Disability Benefits Claims Modernization Act of 2008 - provisions to make comprehensive and significant improvement in VBA disability claims processing. S 2799, Women's Veterans Health Improvement Act of 2008 - provisions to improve the quality and access to medical and mental health care for women. HR 4231 - proposal to pilot a voucher system for VA mental health services. S 2984, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions to expand and enhance veterans' benefits. S 2969/HR 6153, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions to increase the capacity of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain nurses and other critical health-care professionals. S 2889, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code - provisions to improve veterans' health care benefits. S 1881/HR 3195, a bill to amend the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - provisions to restore the intent and protections of the Act. S 2639/HR 2514, a bill to amend Title 39, United States Code - provisions to assure an adequate level of funding for veterans' health care. HR 2123, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act - provisions to establish direct care of registered nurse-to-patient staffing ratio requirements in hospitals. S 2377/HR 4463, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions relating to improving the quality of care provided to veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities and the recruitment of highly qualified doctors to hard to fill positions in these facilities. HR 5888, a bill to amend Title 38, United States Code - provisions for expansion of veteran eligibility for reimbursement by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for emergency treatment furnished in a non-Department facility. HR 6122, a bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to develop and implement a comprehensive policy on pain management as experienced by veterans who are enrolled for health care services provided by the VA. Testimony: April 9, 2008, Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs on "Making the VA the Workplace of Choice for Health Care Providers" May 21, 2008, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on "Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Legislation" May 22, 2008, House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, on "Human Resource Challenges with the Veterans Health Administration" June 5, 2008, House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, on "Legislative Hearing"--Statement for the Record.
FY 2009 Foreign Operations Appropriations - provisions on the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees.
FY 2009 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - provisions on DeCA A-76 moratorium, depot maintenance, civilian personnel issues (NSPS provisions for restoration of collective bargaining rights and appeal rights), contracting out A-76, privatization, Performance Based Organizations, Demonstrations Projects, contracting out for Security Guards and firefighter functions, and BRAC.
AFGE is part of a coalition of 28 health organizations and labor unions urging support of Health and Human Services's funding request to appropriate $2billion for research, vaccine purchases, and related activities.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
FY 2009 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - depot maintenance, civilian personnel issues (NSPS provisions for restoration of collective bargaining rights and appeal rights), contracting out A-76, privatization, Performance Based Organizations, Demonstrations Projects, contracting out for Security Guards and firefighter functions, and BRAC.
AFGE is part of a coalition of 28 health organizations and labor unions urging support of Health and Human Services's funding request to appropriate $2billion for research, vaccine purchases, and related activities. Testimony on March 13 on EPA Library Closures: Better Access for a Broader Audience, focusing on EPA library closings compromising its mission of protecting the environment and public health. No access to scientific research and studies after library closing to comply with $2 million budget cut. No consultation with EPA staff and public before closing libraries.
H.Con.Res. 312/S.Con.Res. 70, FY 2009 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget. FY 2008 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, Hurricane Recovery, and provisions for additional funding for Department of Veterans Affairs health care. Testimony on February 14 on Examining the Backlog and the VA's Claims Processing System, focusing on lack of proper training, skills certifications, and staffing shortages that resulted in a backlog of 650,000 benefits claims. HR 2790, to establish a full-time Director of Physician Assistant Services with the Department of Veterans Affairs. S 2162, to meet current need for VA mental health care through VA in-house care and limited use of community mental health centers outside the VA. We opposed S 38 that would use more non-VA mental health care providers. HR 4089/S 2824, to restore collective bargaining rights of Title 39 VA health care professionals.
FY 2009 Homeland Security Appropriations - with attention to the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security (DHS Personnel Plan, renamed the Human Capital Operational Plan) of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. HR 985/S 274 - to amend Title 5, U.S. Code, to clarify which disclosures of information are protected from prohibited personnel practices; to require a statement in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements to the effect that they conform with certain disclosure protections.
FY 2009 Interior and Environmental Appropriations, with special attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, job security, and contracting out of Department of Interior employees.
FY 2009 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - amendment to prohibit bill from being used to implement the new pro-contractor revision of OMB Circular A-76; Civil Service Reform; contracting out; blue collar pay; minimum wage; federal retirement systems; lines of business; and union representation.
FY 2009 Foreign Operations Appropriations - with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of the Department of State employees.
FY 2009 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - contracting out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Merit Systems Protection Board, Natl Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
H.Con.Res. 99/S.Con.Res.21, FY 2008 Budget Resolution - to increase the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget with attention to budget reconciliation, legislation, blue collar pay, white collar pay, minimum wage, retirement, part-time annuity computations, and compensatory time. S.Con.Res.21, FY 2008 Senate Budget Resolution, Medicaid Cuts amendment that would undermine health care and result in the cost of uncompensated health care being shifted to employer-sponsored health plans. H.Con.Res.99, FY 2008 Budget Resolution, conference agreement provided an increase for veterans health care programs. HR 2206, FY 2007 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, amendment to provide additional funding for Department of Veterans Affairs health care. HR 2638, FY 2008 Homeland Security Appropriations, funding for Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (DHS Personnel Plan, also called the Human Capital Operations Code). In particular, the provisions to halt the Administration's plan to reduce the Federal Protective Service workforce. HR 2642, FY 2008 Military Quality of Life/Veterans Affairs Appropriations, funding for VA health and benefit programs, and contracting out. HR 2643, FY 2008 Interior and Environmental Appropriations, contracting out of federal employee jobs, specifically, the A-76 Forest Service studies in 2008. HR 3043, FY 2008 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill, contracting out, cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and the increase in Social Security Administration's administrative budget to enable some reduction in the backlog of disability claims. HR 3074, FY 2008 Financial Services Appropriations Bill, provision to make the A-76 process more fair. HR 3093, FY 2008 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Bill, amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any EEOC office or make any reductions in force as part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC; provision that prevents use of CIS funds for A-76 competition for BoP/FPI work; and the funding for BoP "Salaries and Expenses" account and "Buildings and Facilities" Account. HR 3161, FY 2008 Agriculture Appropriations, contracting out of federal employee jobs. HR 3222, FY 2008 Defense Appropriations, contracting out of federal employee jobs. FY 2008 Energy and Water Appropriations bill, provision banning A-76 public-private competition at the Army Crops of Engineers.
HR 2764, FY 2008 Foreign Operations Appropriations, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of Department of State employees.
HR3093/S 1745, FY 2008 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Bill, amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or to make any reductions in force as part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. HR 3043/S 1710, FY 2008 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill, Cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding of the National Institutes of Health, and the increase in Social Security Administration's administrative budget to enable some reduction in the backlog of disability claims.
HR 3161/S 1859, FY 2008 Agriculture Appropriations - contracting out of federal employee jobs and how it relates to food safety issues. HR 2419, 2007 Farm Bill - Meat and poultry inspected by state programs to be sold in interstate commerce.
HR 2638/S 1644, FY 2008 Homeland Security Appropriations - Border Patrol and INS, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DHS employees, including contracting out.
HR 3093, FY 2008 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations, with regard to the reorganization plan that could compromise the EEOC's ability to protect employees from employment discrimination.
HR 2643/S 1696, FY 2008 Interior and Environmental Appropriations, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels and contracting out, and job security of Department of Interior employees.
HR 2829, FY 2008 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - Contracting Out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees.
HR 2929, FY 2008 Financial services and General Government Appropriations, amendment to prohibit bill from being used to implement the new pro-contractor revision of OMB Circular A-76; Civil Service Reform; contracting out; blue collar pay; minimum wage; federal retirement systems; lines of business, and union representation.
H.Con.Res. 99/S.Con.Res.21, FY 2008 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing Department of Veterans Affairs health care. In particular, HR 1471, Better Access to Chiropractors to Keep our Veterans Health Act (Back Veterans Health Act); HR 2514, Assured Funding for Veterans Health Care Act; and HR 2642, Military Construction and VA Appropriations Act of 2008. HR 2206, FY 2007 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, Hurricane Recovery, and provision for additional funding for Department of Veterans Affairs health care.
HR 3161/S 1859, FY 2008 Agriculture Appropriations - Authorization and Appropriations, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of USDA employees. HR 2419, - 2007 Farm Bill - Meat and poultry inspected by state programs to be sold in interstate commerce.
HR 241, Associations Health Plans,with attention to its exemption from state laws and regulations; state patient protections and health insurance company solvency standards; higher premiums for older, sicker workers covered by conventional health care plans; and the resultant substantial increase in the number of uninsured workers, especially as it relates to Federal Employee Health Benefits, and FEHBP in general.
HR 3222, FY 2008 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - depot maintenance, defense issues, civilian personnel issues, Contracting Out A-76, privatization, Performance Based Organizations, Demonstration Projects, contracting for Security Guards and firefighter functions, and BRAC. HR 1585, Defense Authorization - Anti-Federal Prisons Industries provision (section 827).
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Other), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense, Dept of (DOD), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), U.S. Marines, UNDETERMINED, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
HR 3074/S 1789, FY 2008 Financial Services Appropriations, with regard to contracting out; pay; benefits, staffing levels; and job security of HUD employees.
HR 2643/S 1696, FY 2008 Interior and Environmental Appropriations, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels and contracting out, and job security of Department of Interior employees.
HR3093/S 1745, FY 2008 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Bill, amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or to make any reductions in force as part of any
H.Con.Res. 99/S.Con.Res.21, FY 2008 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing Department of Veterans Affairs health care. In particular, HR 1471, Better Access to Chiropractors to Keep our Veterans Health Act (Back Veterans Health Act); HR 2514,
HR 2638 and 1684/S 1644, FY 2008 Homeland Security Appropriations, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security (DHS Civil Service Plan, renamed the Human Capital Operational Plan) of DHS
HR 3161/S 1859, FY 2008 Agriculture Appropriations - contracting out of federal employee jobs and how it relates to food safety issues.
HR 2764, FY 2008 Foreign Operations Appropriations, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of Department of State employees.
H.Con.Res. 99/S.Con.Res.21, FY 2008 Budget Resolution - to increase the Department of Veterans Affairs health care budget with attention to budget reconciliation, legislation, blue collar pay, white collar pay, minimum wage, retirement, part-time annuity
HR 2929, FY 2008 Financial services and General Government Appropriations, amendment to prohibit bill from being used to implement the new pro-contractor revision of OMB Circular A-76; Civil Service Reform; contracting out; blue collar pay; minimum
HR 3222, FY 2008 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - depot maintenance, defense issues, civilian personnel issues, Contracting Out A-76, privatization, Performance Based Organizations, Demonstration Projects, contracting for Security Guards and
HR 2829, FY 2008 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations - Contracting Out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DC Government employees.
HR 241, Associations Health Plans,with attention to its exemption from state laws and regulations; state patient protections and health insurance company solvency standards; higher premiums for older, sicker workers covered by conventional health care plans;
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Other), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense, Dept of (DOD), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), U.S. Marines, UNDETERMINED, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
HR 3093/S 1745, FY 2008 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Bill, amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or to make any reductions in force as part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. HR 3043/S 1710, FY 2008 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill, cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and the increase in Social Security Administration's administrative budget to enable some reduction in the backlog of disability claims.
HR 3222, FY 2008 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - depot maintenance, defense issues, civilian personnel issues, Contracting Out A-76, privatization, Performance Based Organizations, Demonstration Projects, contracting for Security Guard and Firefighter functions, and BRAC.
HR 3074/S 1789, FY 2008 Financial Services Appropriations, with regard to contracting out; pay; benefits; staffing levels; and job security of HUD employees.
HR 2643/S 1696, FY 2008 Interior and Environmental Appropriations, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels and contracting out, and job security of Department of Interior employees.
and its resultant sustantial increase in the number of uninsured workers, especially as it relates to Federal Employee Health Benefits; and FEHBP in general. HR 241, Associations Health Plans, with attention to its exemption from state laws and regulations; state patient protections and health insurance company solvency standards; higher premiums for older, sicker workers covered by conventional health care plans;
HR 2638/S 1644, FY 2008 Homeland Security Appropriations - Border Patrol and INS, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of DHS employees, including contracting out.
HR 2764, FY 2008 Foreign Operations Appropriations, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of Department of State employees.
HR 2638 and 1684/S 1644, FY 2008 Homeland Security Appropriations, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security (DHS Civil Service Plan, recently renamed the Human Capital Operational Plan) of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. HR 1/S 4, to provide for implementation of the recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States and to make the United States more secure by implementing unfinished recommendations of the 9/11 Commission to fight the ware on terror more effectively, and to improve homeland security. HR 985/S 274, to amend Title 5, US Code, to clarify which disclosures of information are protected from prohibited personnel practices; to require a statement in nondisdclosure policies, forms, and agreemeents to the effect that they conform with certain disclosure protections.
Assured Funding for Veterans Health Care Act; and HR 2642, Military Construction and VA Appropriations Act, 2008. HR 2206, FY 2007 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, Hurricane Recovery, and provision for additional funding for Department of Veterans Affairs health care. H.Con.Res. 99/S.Con.Res. 21, FY 2008 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing Department of Veterans Affairs health care. In particular: HR 1471, Better Access to Chiropractors to Keep our Veterans Healthy Act (Back Veterans Health Act); HR 2514,
H.Con.Res. 99/S.Con.Res. 21, FY 2008 Budget Resolution - to increase the Department of Veterans Afffairs health care budget with attention to budget reconciliation, legislation, blue collar pay, white collar pay, minimum wage, retirement, part-time annuity computations, and compensatory time. HR 2206, FY 2007 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, amendment to provide additional funding for Department of Veterans Affairs health care. S.Con.Res. 21, FY 2008 Senate Budget Resolution, Medicaid Cuts amendment that would undermine health care and result in the cost of uncompensated health care being shifted to employer-sponsored health plans. HR 3074, FY 2008 Financial Services Appropriations Bill, provisions to make the A-76 process more fair. H.Con.Res 99, FY 2008 Budget Resolution, conference agreement provided an increase for veterans health care programs. HR 3093, FY 2008 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Bill, amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or to make any reductions in force as part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. HR 3043, FY 2008 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill, contracting out, cuts in funds for job training and employment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, funding for the National Institutes of Health, and the increase in Social Security Administration's administrative budget to enable some reduction in the backlog of disability claims. HR 3161, FY 2008 Agriculture Appropriations, contracting out of federal employee jobs. HR 3222, FY 2008 Defense Appropriations, contracting out of federal employee jobs. HR 2638, FY 2008 Homeland Security Appropriations, funding for Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (DHS Personnel Plan, recently renamed the Human Capital Operations Code). In particular, the provision to halt the Administration's plan to reduce the Federal Protective Service workforce. HR 2643, FY 2008 Interior and Environmental Appropriations, contracting out of federal employee jobs. Specifically, the A-76 studies at the Forest Service in 2008. FY 2008 Energy and Water Appropriations bill, provision banning A-76 public-private competitions at the Army Corps of Engineers. HR 2642, FY 2008 Military Quality of Life/Veterans Affairs Appropriations, funding for VA health and benefit programs, and contracting out. .
HR 3093, FY 2008 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations, with regard to the reorganization plan that could compromise the EEOC's ability to protect employees from employment discrimination.
HR 3161/S 1859, FY 2008 Agriculture Appropriations - contracting out of federal employee jobs and how it relates to food safety issues.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Other), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense, Dept of (DOD), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
HR 5384, FY 2007 Agriculture Appropriations - Authorization and Appropriations, with particular attention ot the pay, benefits, staffing levels,and job security of USDA employees.
S.Con.Res. 83, Senate Budget Resolution, Medicaid Cuts amendment that would undermine health care and result in the cost of uncompensated health care being shifted to employer-sponsored health plans.
HR 4939, FY 2006 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, Hurricane Recovery, and provision of an additional $1.98 billion for Department of Veterans Affairs health care. H.Con.Res. 376, FY 2007 Budget Resolution, provision of only an $872 million increase for veterans' health care programs. S.Con.Res. 83, FY 2007 Budget Resolution, in regard to increasing Department of Veterans Affairs health care by $2.85 billion.
S.Con.Res. 83, Senate Budget Resolution, amendment that puts the Senate on record in opposition to the Social Security privatization proposals of the Bush Administration and Senate Republican leaders. HR 5642, FY 2007 Science, State, Justice, and Commerce Appropriations Bill, amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or to make any reductions in force as part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. HR 5647, FY 2007 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill, cuts in funds for job training and emplyment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, and funding for the National Institutes of Health; amendment to prohibit the use of funds by the National Labor Relations Board to enforce its decision to apply the National Labor Relations Act to on-reservation commercial tribal enterprises such as casinos; amendment to prohibit the use of funds by the Department of Labor to enforce item 6B of the settlement agreement between DoL's Wage and House Division and Wal-Mart Stores being given 15 days' prior notice of any audit or investigation; amendment to prohibit any funds from being used by the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation in the United Airlines settlement agreement.
HR 5386, FY 2007 Interior and Environmental Appropriations, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels and contracting out, and job security of Department of Interior employees.
HR 5631, FY 2007 Defense Appropriations and Authorization - depot maintenance, defense issues, civilian personnel issues, Contracting Out A-76, privatization, Performance Based Organizations, Demonstration Projects, contractor travel inventory, contracting for Security Guard and Firefighter functions, and BRAC.
HR 5576, FY 2007 Transportation-Treasury-HUD Appropriations Bill, amendment to prohibit bill from being used to implement the new pro-contractor revision of OMB Circular A-76; Civil Service Reform; contracting out; blue collar pay; minimum wage; federal retirement systems; Service Acquisition Reform Act (SARA); DVA Privatization; Volice of America; and union representation.
and its resultant sustantial increase in the number of uninsured workers, especially as it relates to Federal Employee Health Benefits; and FEHBP in general. HR 525, Associations Health Plans, with attention to its exemption from state laws and regulations; state patient protections and health insurance company solvency standards; higher premiums for older, sicker workers covered by conventional health care plans;
S 3569, Oman Free Trade Agreement, in particular, its likelihood of exacerbating poverty and inequality in Oman and further eroding good jobs and wages at home.
HR 5384, FY 2007 Agriculture Appropriations - contracting out of federal employee jobs and how it relates to food safety issues.
S.Con.Res. 83, FY 2007 Budget Resolution - to increase the Department of Veterans Afffairs health care budget by $2.85 billion, with attention to budget reconciliation, legislation, blue collar pay, white collar pay, minimum wage, retirement, part-time annuity computations, and compensatory time. HR 4939, FY 2006 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, amendment to provide an additional $1.98 billion for Department of Veterans Affairs health care. S.Con.Res. 83, FY 2007 Senate Budget Resolution, Medicaid Cuts amendment that would undermine health care and result in the cost of uncompensated health care being shifted to employer-sponsored health plans. HR 5576, FY 2007 Transportation-Treasury-HUD Appropriations Bill, amendment to prohibit funds in the bill from being used to implement the new pro-contractor revision of OMB Circular A-76. H.Con.Res 376, FY 2007 Budget Resolution, conference agreement provided only $872 million increase for veterans health care programs, leaving DVA programs $2 billion short of meeting needs of veterans. HR 5672, FY 2007 Science, State, Justice, and Commerce Appropriations Bill, amendment to prohibit funds from being used to close or consolidate any office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or to make any reductions in force as part of any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or organizing of the EEOC. HR 5647, FY 2007 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill, cuts in funds for job training and emplyment services, college aid for students, rural health care services, and funding for the National Institutes of Health; amendment to prohibit the use of funds by the National Labor Relations Board to enforce its decision to apply the National Labor Relations Act to on-reservation commercial tribal enterprises such as casinos; amendment to prohibit the use of funds by the Department of Labor to enforce item 6B of the settlement agreement between DoL's Wage and House Division and Wal-Mart Stores being given 15 days' prior notice of any audit or investigation; amendment to prohibit any funds from being used by the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation in the United Airlines settlement agreement. HR 5384, FY 2007 Agriculture Appropriations, contracting out of federal employee jobs. HR 5631, FY 2007 Defense Appropriations, contracting out of federal employee jobs. HR 5441, FY 2007 Homeland Security Appropriations, funding for Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Federal Emergency Management Agency. HR 5386, FY 2007 Interior and Environmental Appropriations, contracting out of federal employee jobs. HR 5385, FY 2007 Military Quality of Life/Veterans Affairs Appropriations, funding for VA health and benefit programs.
S.Con.Res.83, Senate Budget Resolution, amendment on anti-Social Security privatization. HR 5647, FY 2007 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill, amendment to prohibit any funds in the bill from being used by the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation to implement its settlement agreement with United Airlines that allows United Airlines to terminate its four pension plans and provides they assume only $6.6 billion of the $9.8 billion pension liability.
HR 5522, FY 2007 Foreign Operations Appropriations, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staffing levels, and job security of Department of State employees.
S 2020, Senate Tax Reconciliation, in particular, the cutting of federal tax revenues when the federal budget deficit is over $300 billion and its reduction of federal revenues by $11 billion in FY 2006 and $58 billion in FY 2006-2010. HR 4297, House Tax Reconciliation -- see above.
HR 5441, FY 2007 Homeland Security Appropriations, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, contracting out and staffing levels, funding, and job security of DHS employees in Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
S 3660 and HR 55767, FY 2007 District of Columbia Appropriations - Budget Resolution, Contracting Out A-76, and Budget Reconciliation, with particular attention to the pay, benefits, staff levels, and job security of DC Government employees.
HR 5576, FY 2007 Transportation-Treasury-HUD Appropriations, amendment to prohibit funds in the bill from being used to implement the new pro-contractor review of OMB Circular A-76 and, in particular, contracting out; pay; benefits; staffing levels; and job security of HUD employees.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Other), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense, Dept of (DOD), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Interior, Dept of (DOI), Navy, Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), U.S. Marines, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)