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Moran Amendment Passes
Congratulations to
everybody who worked the Moran Amendment to the Treasury Appropriations Bill
on the OMB outsourcing quotas. It's just the first step, but the House has
handed the Bush Administration an explicit and bipartisan repudiation of its
competitive sourcing initiative. The Moran Amendment prevailed by a vote of
261-166. All Democrats voted right, as did 52 Republicans. Please continue
to lobby on homeland security. Congressman Young voted against us.
Please, contact him and others via email to inform them of his acting
against federal employees' interests in Alaska.
Report on Important Senate TRAC Act Hearing
The March 6 Senate Governmental Affairs hearing on federal service
contracting was the highlight of AFGE's extremely successful 2002
Legislative and Political Action Conference. Thanks to the hundreds of AFGE
Activists who braved harsh weather by standing outside the Hart Senate
Office Building as early as 4:00 a.m. for a hearing that would not begin for
another five and one-half hours, there was not an empty seat in Room 216,
the Senate's biggest hearing room
Article Courtesy of
GovExec.com
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0302/030602p1.htm
For the full
story give this link a look, below is my statement that appears in the
story.
The union members strongly opposed OMB’s competitive sourcing plan.
“I represent 1,000 employees who are basically terrified of losing their
jobs,” said David Owens, president of AFGE Local 1101 at Elmendorf AFB
in Anchorage, Alaska, after the hearing.
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