Operation Clean UP

AFGE established the Operation Clean Up campaign to work for passage of Clean Up Act.  This is an exension of the SWAMP campaign. We now need to move on the grassroots work within our states, so that our Members, Local Representatives, and Activists can get involved. Here are all the materials we currently have and update you with as much information we have at this point. Attached you will find summary information about the Clean Up Act along with a petition to be circulated, flyers on the Act and the new DoD flyer, both of which can be distributed on Federal Government worksites along with collecting petition signatures.

Here is some quick info for you…..

Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) will introduce the Clean Up Act on Tuesday, April 21. The House version of the bill, sponsored by Representative John Sarbanes (D, MD-3) will likely be introduced in early May.

AFGE lobbyist John Threlkeld has met or attempted to meet with key Senate offices regarding this legislation and has laid the groundwork for our grassroots strategy. He will also met with key House committee members during the April recess period. Based on those meetings, we have put together a Senate target list (below for AFGE’s 4th  District) of those Senators who need additional encouragement to cosponsor . These Senators need to be contacted as much as possible by phone with a simple message like “I encourage you to co-sponsor the Clean Up Act that introduced by Senator Barbara Mikulski on April 21st”.

The Clean Up Act is the next round in AFGE’s successful and long running battle to put the brakes on contracting out and begin contracting work back in. If timing is everything, this legislation comes at a time when the Obama Administration’s pronouncements relative to contracting out are in synch with AFGE’s. The Clean Up Act would:

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.

Senator Hagan – DC office 202-224-6342; Toll free no. for North Carolina 1-877-852-9462; Raleigh office 919-856-4630

In addition if you can speak with your fellow Local officers, activists etc. and encourage them/work with them to make the calls to their Senators and gather the Petition signatures that would be great.

All of this will be very helpful to our lobbying efforts as it intensifies and the Committees begin voting.

Thank you in advance for all your work and help. I will continue to send information and updates as they become available; please let me know if you have any questions.

AFGE Legislative and Political Coordinator
Legislative and Political Department
80 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Office: (202) 639-6952
Work Cell: (202) 285-1283
Fax: (202) 639-6492

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