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Treasury employees to challenge judge's ruling on big cyberhack

9/25/2017

The Treasury Employees (NTEU) will challenge a federal judge’s ruling freeing the government – their employer – of responsibility for a big data breach/cyberattack of its computers that disclosed personal information of 22 million present and former federal workers and their families. “We immediately appealed the district court’s decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit,” said NTEU National President Tony Reardon on Sept. 19. NTEU was one of two unions which sued the feds after the data breach two years ago. The lead union in the case, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), is still considering an appeal of Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s ruling, union president J. David Cox said. “OPM failed to keep our most private and sensitive information from getting into the hands of Chinese hackers. We are deeply disappointed,” he added. Cox said the hacking would forever disrupt the lives of the workers and their families.

Duncan honored

9/25/2017

At Thursday's NoVA Labor meeting, Delegate Kaye Kory and Congressman Gerry Connolly presented longtime NoVA president Dan Duncan -- who retired earlier this year -- with a resolution honoring his “years of extraordinary leadership.”
photo (l-r): Connolly, Kory and Duncan; photo by Virginia Diamond

M+R workers join Guild

9/25/2017

Staffers at M+R voted overwhelmingly last Wednesday to join the Washington-Baltimore News Guild (Workers at locals comms firm organize 9/22 UC). The firm works primarily with labor unions and other non-profits.

Labor Quote of the Day: Joe Davidson

9/25/2017

"Bayard Rustin, Dolores Huerta, the pioneers of the farmworker movement and the workers of the Memphis sanitation strike also are on the (Labor Hall of Honor) list of labor heroes and heroines. As a labor leader, Reagan was not in their league."
Davidson is a Washington Post columnist who recently wrote an article titled 'Induction of union-busting Reagan into Labor’s Hall of Honor shocks union'

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