By a bipartisan 253-172 vote, the GOP-run House has rejected a Republican attempt to continue privatizing tens of thousands of federal jobs. If the plan, included in an omnibus money bill to keep the government going – a long-range measure that now will come up after Oct. 1 – had won, workers ranging from janitors on up would be jeopardized, said their largest union, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE).
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