Today marks one year since the Bethesda Declaration, a letter of dissent issued by employees at NIH to protest severe budget cuts of medical research and the implementation unqualified leadership. Unfortunately, little has changed since then; 27 UNIHTED has an excellent piece on this: zurl.co/A2PjF
This afternoon, we are seeing the first wave of federal scientists whose positions are being politicized & stripped of their employment protections.
This is “schedule P/C” (previously “schedule F”) and I’ll link other posts about different agencies in this thread (1/x)
New report from the Bethesda Declaration team, taking stock after a year.
www.27unihted.org/bethesda-dec...
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Link to full list of thousands of federal positions being transitioned to “at will” employment. 229 pages of listings like this.
Think about what it means to make the people in all these jobs MUCH easier to fire.
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Here are the CDC positions they are saying are in the excepted service as policy roles — including "Epidemiologist," "Research Epidemiologist," and "Health Scientist."
Chris Geidner
"And then things got worse."
The complete Schedule P/C list, folks...
This includes thousands and thousands of civil servants. To my eye, this covers more than just 15s.
www.whitehouse.gov
Trump just signed order "reclassifying" ~8,000 civil servants so they are easier to fire for political reasons -- this has been in the works since his first term www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
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Roughly 8,000 career federal employees were stripped of their civil service protections Wednesday, making them effectively at-will employees.
