Missouri News Connection
St. Louis labor leaders and good-government groups are coming together to demand U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley s resignation.
At the U.S. Capitol last week, Hawley fist-pumped the mob that shortly after stormed the building, putting members of Congress and Capitol staff at risk and injuring Capitol and D.C. metro police - including one officer who later died. And Hawley led the charge in the Senate to object to the counting of electoral votes, the motivation for the riot.
American Federation of Government Employees Local 2192 President Keena Smith said Missouri s people deserve better, and their senator should be focusing on helping them especially Black, Brown and low-income residents get through this health and economic crisis.
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email EEOC Cancels Official Time for Union Reps Across Government
In a party-line vote, commission members issued a final rule stripping union officials from access to official time to work on colleagues’ discrimination complaints and tried to exempt the regulation from the Congressional Review Act.
Members of the federal agency tasked with eliminating workplace discrimination voted 3-2 along party lines Thursday to strip union federal employees of their right to official time to work on discrimination complaints, undoing nearly 50 years of precedent.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guarantees official time to federal employees working on their colleagues’ discrimination claims, a policy intended to help victims feel more comfortable and navigate a complicated and difficult adjudication process.
Like a war zone : Prison that freed Paul Manafort early now ravaged by Covid Lisa Riordan Seville
Rodney Wyatt has lived more than a few lives in his 52 years.
There was his life in the drug trade more than a decade ago that landed him a 22-year sentence for conspiracy to distribute cocaine, and his life as a loving father and fiancé. There’s his life as a patient, in which he has suffered two heart attacks and endured 42 rounds of radiation treatments for prostate cancer.
And there’s his life now, as one of more than 620 prisoners at FCI Loretto in Pennsylvania who contracted Covid-19 in the last month in what was, by mid-December, the worst outbreak in the federal prison system.
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The head of an employee union at the Milwaukee VA Medical Center said understaffing at the facility has taken a toll on nursing staff during the coronavirus pandemic.
Gayle Griffin, president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 3, said nurses and aids have been forced to work overtime or face disciplinary action.
“Some people are calling in because for the simple fact they know that once they come into work, that they’re going to stay. They have no other life. You cannot plan anything outside of your eight hours at the Milwaukee VA because you don’t know where you will end up,” Griffin said.