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Jul 1, 2012

AFGE Members Ratify Contract With SSA

     The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the union that represents most Social Security employees, has announced that its members have ratified the new contract that its leaders negotiated with the Social Security Administration (SSA).
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  1. Anonymous8:49 AM, July 01, 2012

    What does a sign contract mean when SSA employees have not received their award money dating back to October 2011. Too me, this is a worthless piece of paper.

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  2. Anonymous9:46 AM, July 01, 2012

    You should be lucky to receive any award money given the budget problems the agency is faced with. They should eliminate awards all together.

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  3. Anonymous10:45 AM, July 01, 2012

    I agree that they should eliminate the awards due to too much favoritism by management. The previous "contract" was designed with a tougher evaluation system in return for an increase in monetary awards for exceptional production. Somehow, the monetary awards that are due to hard working employees are not being paid and that is clear violation of the AFGE 2005 contract.

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  4. Anonymous2:48 PM, July 01, 2012

    I thought awards are entirely dependent on a budget. A contract has nothing to do with the agency budget. It only affects how the award money is distributed if there is in fact any money to distribute.

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  5. Anonymous3:22 PM, July 01, 2012

    Thank God for a new contract. Now we can start hiring more paralegal writers, paying then the same as a fully qualified attorney.. Hurray for AFGE, the protector of the inept..

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  6. Anonymous7:59 AM, July 02, 2012

    So just how many non-exempt employees does the union represent in SSA and how many are actually members?

    Outside of the busy-body reps here, nobody around admits they are a member or pays dues. I know I would be risking pay, but if minimizing union representation would allow the agency to shed some deadweight and people screwing up, I would be all for it.

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  7. Anonymous10:33 AM, July 02, 2012

    3:22 nailed it

    have you seen that Region IV grievance they filed about all the attorneys ODAR hired in 2010-2011?

    Sklar seems very practical and numbers-based. He seems willing to keep hiring attorneys rather than "paralegals" (an aside -- how can these people be called "paralegals" when each State's Bar requires one to actually be a paralegal in order to hold themselves out as such...) since the former's numbers are better.

    We'll see, I guess.

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