Operation Clean Up

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AFGE has its own job creation plan and it's focused on bringing currently contracted jobs out back in-house. The first big step in creating good government jobs, with fair wages and benefits is to pass the CLEAN UP Act (S. 924/H.R. 2736), which was introduced in the United States Senate on April 29, 2009 by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and in the United States House of Representatives on June 4, 2009 by Rep. Paul Sarbanes (D-MD). This bill would require agencies to identify which jobs have been contracted and and to come up with a plan to bring those jobs back in-house if they should actually be performed by government employees. It also protects existing jobs by banning new A-76 (contracting out) studies until major reforms have are enacted government-wide.

Please join your fellow AFGE Activists who have contacted their lawmakers and ask your senators and representative to co-sponsor the CLEAN UP Act.

Use the form below to show your support for the Clean Up Act. If you have questions, please contact AFGE's John Threlkeld at threlj@afge.org / (202) 639-6413

Subject:

Dear [ Decision Maker ],

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I am writing to urge you to become a cosponsor of The CLEAN UP Act (S. 924/H.R. 2736), introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and in the United States House of Representatives by Representative John Sarbanes (D-MD. The Clean Up Act would make the outsourcing and insourcing processes more fair to federal employees and more accountable to taxpayers.  The recently passed FY09 Omnibus Appropriations Bill requires agencies to develop insourcing plans to bring in-house new work and contracted out work and suspend the use of the OMB Circular A-76 process.  The Clean Up Act would build on these and other precedents and:

1)	ensure that work that should be performed by federal employees is incrementally brought back in-house;
2)	encourage agencies to assign new work to federal employees rather than through yet another sole-source or limited competition contract
3)	require agencies to determine where there are or will be shortages of federal employees and develop plans to address these shortages; and
4)	direct the Obama Administration to make drastic, long-overdue reforms to the OMB Circular A-76 process; and suspend the use of that process until all of the reforms discussed above have been substantially implemented across the federal government.

It's time to put an end to the waste, fraud and abuse in the contracting out process. I would appreciate a response to my request.  Thank you.

Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your address]

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