AFGE is leading the fight to contract IN jobs. You read that right.  AFGE has its own job creation plan and it’s focused on bringing currently contracted out jobs back in-house.  It’s time to play offense to protect and create good federal employee jobs.  It’s time for AFGE activists to get IN gear to contract in federal employee jobs.

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The first big step in AFGE’s contracting in campaign is to get lawmakers to support the CLEAN UP Act -- a bill that requires agencies to identify which jobs have been contracted out and to come up with a schedule to bring those jobs back in house.  The CLEAN UP Act also protects existing jobs by banning new A-76 (contracting out) studies until major reforms are enacted government-wide. The Clean Up Act was introduced in the Senate (S. 924) on April 21 by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and will soon be introduced in the House by Representative John Sarbanes (D, MD-3).

Thousands of AFGE activists have contacted their lawmaker(s) to support the Clean Up Act.  If you haven’t, please do so today.

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AFGE activists successfully fought back against the Bush administration’s plan to contract out half of all federal employee jobs.  Now it’s time to move our fight to a totally new level.  It’s time to bring back the jobs that will help us fulfill the mission at each of our agencies

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Please take a moment to watch AFGE's video about the CLEAN UP Act:

http://www.afge.org/index.cfm?fuse=content&contentID=1822. 

And go to operationcleanup.org for more information on the Clean Up Act and grassroots petitions and flyers that you can download and circulate at the worksite.

Thanks for all you do for working families.

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In solidarity,  

John Gage

National President

American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO