Employees within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began to receive announcements on Tuesday (April 1) of the release of the main plan of restructuring, which is expected to reduce to 10,000 jobs. The repair comes only a few days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that removed the rights of collective bargaining from HHS and other federal agencies.
Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Last week he announced that restructuring is to streamline HHS. The HHS department, which oversees public health, disease prevention and medical research, will see a significant reorganization, including the consolidation of agencies that supervise billions depending on the services and financing of the health in the community in the new entity called The Administration for Healthy America.
Criticism of the Union and the Lawyer’s concern
Representatives of the HHS employees were informed on Thursday that between 8,000 and 10,000 employees would be terminated. The management of the ministry focused on positions in the field of human resources, awarding public procurement, finance and IT with a focus on those in the “highly costly regions” or considered “excess”.
Democratic legislators sentenced this step. Senator Patty Murray of Washington warned against terrible consequences, especially for public health crises.
“They can also rename this to the Ministry of Diseases because their plan gives their lives a serious threat,” Murray said on Friday.
Cruing Cuts through local health departments
In addition to federal layoffs, the state and local health departments also feel the impact. Last week, HHS canceled more than $ 11 billion to financing related to Covid-19, forcing local governments to assess cuts.
“Some of them overnight, some of them are gone,” said Lori Tremmel Freeman, CEO of the National Association of Regional and City Health Clerks.
Decomposition of cuts of work
The Ministry provided detailed disorders of the expected losses of jobs:
Food and Drug Administration (FDA): 3,500 jobs. The FDA is responsible for checking and determining safety standards for medicines, medical devices and food.
Centers for control and prevention of diseases (CDC): 2 400 jobs. CDC monitors infectious diseases and cooperates with public health agencies nationwide.
National Health Institutes (NIH): 1 200 jobs. Nih is a leading world medical research institution.
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) centers: 300 jobs. CMS supervises the market available, Medicare and Medicaid.
Efforts on the trade union effort blocked by a executive order
CDC employees increased the efforts for trade unions in response to Trump Administration’s workforce plans. While about 2,000 CDC employees in Atlanta were already part of the US Federation of Government employees, hundreds of others have joined to connect.
However, Trump’s executive order, signed on Thursday evening, deprived the right to collective bargaining from employees of several federal health agencies, including CDCs.
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The will to eliminate the rights of Union
Democratic legislators killed this step as an attack on the rights of federal workers.
“President Trump’s insolent attempt to deprive most of the federal employees of their rights of the Union robs these workers about their hard -fought protection,” Reps said. Gerald Connolly and Bobby Scott, both from Virginia, on Friday a joint statement.
“It gives Elon Musk only more power to analyze the folk government with the least resistance of devoted civil servants – then weaken the ability of the federal government to serve the US people.”
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