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Article Title: Federal workers union furious over DOD contracts
Snippet of Article: "...Defense Department awarded tens of billions in new military contracts last month even as Pentagon leaders finalized plans to furlough up to 700,000 civilian employees..."
Article Title: Obama to propose $35 billion in federal retirement program savings
Snippet of Article: "...the retirement proposals a “betrayal” by the administration on the heels of the already enacted contributions increase, the salary rate freeze and sequestration cuts that threaten unpaid furloughs starting soon...."
Article Title: Army employee shot, killed at Fort Knox
Snippet of Article: "...An Army civilian employee was shot and killed in a parking lot at Kentucky's Fort Knox on Wednesday..."
Article Title: Spies in Huntsville? Believe it. FBI calls the city a 'major target' for espionage
Snippet of Article: "...The FBI is the lead federal agency charged with protecting national secrets, according to Daymond, and it shares threat information with companies and the public on a website devoted to its "business alliance initiative." ..."
Article Title: Furloughs leave federal workers in a world of worry
Snippet of Article: "...“He’s a Marine just getting his life back together, and suddenly he’s looking at losing $300 a month.”..."
Article Title: Defense Department to delay furlough notices
Snippet of Article: "...Furlough notices, which were scheduled to go out Friday, will be delayed until April 5, officials said...."
Article Title: OPM hopes to add six new insurers to FEHBP
Snippet of Article: "...The Office of Personnel Management is now negotiating with six health care insurance carriers..."
Article Title: House committee votes to fire federal workers who owe back taxes
Snippet of Article: "...The Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act, introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah..."
Article Title: Pitney Bowes funds a study to privatize the Postal Service, could make billions off the plan
Snippet of Article: "...Yesterday’s Bloomberg report quotes Sally Davidow, a spokeswoman for the American Postal Workers Union, saying the same thing: Pitney Bowes “stands to benefit enormously from privatizing mail processing operations.” ..."
Article Title: TSP iPhone app warning
Snippet of Article: "...This app is not being offered through the TSP and the TSP does not recommend..."
Article Title: How does the government make its snow-day decisions?
Snippet of Article: "...The federal government closed its D.C.-area offices early Wednesday morning due to a late-winter storm ..."
Article Title: Unionized Federal Workers: We’ll Get Our Pay Despite Sequester
Snippet of Article: "...National Federation of Federal Employees spokesperson Cory Byrthrow threatens that the powerful union will “absolutely fight for back pay in the event of a furlough.”..."
Article Title: Federal-Contractor CFOs Brace for Sequestration
Snippet of Article: "...Smaller contractors, for which any substantial cuts would be damaging, may have particular reason to worry..."
Article Title: Federal Workers Expecting Furlough Notices Friday
Snippet of Article: "...The federal government is required to give employees 30 days notice before a furlough can take affect. Those notices are expected to come this Friday, March 1st..."
Article Title: AFGE National President Demands Contractor Cuts Before Federal Worker Furloughs
Snippet of Article: "...J. David Cox Sr. , national president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), today denounced plans to furlough federal employees as the threat of sequestration looms over the federal government. "We absolutely reject the notion that federal employees should be subjected to furloughs as part of Congress' destructive game of sequestration," said Cox. ..."
Article Title: Nancy Pelosi thinks a pay cut is below her ‘dignity.’
Snippet of Article: "...House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she opposes a cut in congressional pay because it would diminish the dignity of lawmakers’ jobs...."
Article Title: GOP senator: Sequester is going to happen
Snippet of Article: "..."Let me be very clear - and I'd say this to the president as I say it to you - these spending cuts are going to go through on March 1," the senator from Wyoming said on CNN's "State of the Union."..."
Article Title: Furloughs wouldn’t happen until April under sequester
Snippet of Article: "...that “legal requirements” would delay the onset of unpaid leave for defense workers if Congress fails to approve a debt-reduction deal before the March deadline...."
Article Title: Feds Don't Have To Accept Furloughs Laying Down
Snippet of Article: "...could mean furloughs for hundreds of thousands of federal and civilian workers...."
Article Title: GOP lawmakers want to cut federal workforce to avoid sequester
Snippet of Article: "...Republican lawmakers in both chambers on Wednesday proposed reducing the federal workforce through attrition to avoid sequestration this year...."
Article Title: Democrat TSA Shutdown | Wasted Union Dues: AFGE Silent on Democrat Attack on Unionized TSA Workers The disgusting AF...
