Federal workers union says HHS layoffs ‘targeting science’

Federal Union Accuses HHS of ‘Targeting Science’

A federal labor union has accused the Department of Health and Human Services of “targeting science” amid hundreds of layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, The Hill reported on Friday. Yolanda Jacobs, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, Local 2883, said the firings at HHS “gut frontline science and shut down life-saving public health prog…

Federal Union Accuses HHS of 'Targeting Science'

A federal labor union has accused the Department of Health and Human Services of targeting science amid hundreds of layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, The Hill reported.

Labor unions representing laid off NIOSH, CDC workers to protest in D.C. next week

The American Federation of Government Employees said it will join other labor unions, including the AFL-CIO, in a protest outside the federal Department of Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington, D.C., at noon on Thursday, May 22. (Mark Wilson | Getty Images)Unions representing workers laid off at federal health and oversight agencies are heading to Washington D.C. next week to protest past and continued cuts to their workforces by…

Federal workers union says HHS layoffs ‘targeting science’

Labor unions say layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) are threatening science even as some employees get their jobs back. In a statement released Friday, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) said the layoffs at the Department of Health and…