Items Tagged with 'American Federation of Government Employees'

The expanding shutdowns - and slowdowns - of U.S. meatpacking plants is raising concerns in the nation’s capital and putting a new focus on the need for curbing the COVID-19 outbreaks that are forcing plants to suspend or at least reduce operations.

Five federal employees, including a Food Safety and Inspection Service inspector, have sued the federal government for hazard pay for working during the coronavirus crisis.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue tried to sell the Kansas City region as an attractive new home for employees of the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture at an “all-hands” meeting Thursday to brief those agencies’ employees. But some weren’t buying it.

Employees of USDA's Economic Research Service voted 138-4 for union representation even as their department continues to proceed with plans to move ERS and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture out of the nation's capital.