A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

After the last Round US Center for the control and resistance of the disease In the weekend, the union that represents agency staff assumes that this year about 3,000 people – a quarter of the agency’s employees – left the agency.

This number includes damaged workers Trimmed at the beginning of this yearAs well as those who have adopted the “fork on the streets” by the administration of the Trump.

The most recent cuts of the ongoing government closed came down. On October 8, more than 5 CDC employees received the notification for completion. Soon, however, about 700 of these people were emined through the email that they were incorrectly finished and in reality they were not subject to the decrease in force. Approximately 600 people finish.

According to the union, an additional 1,5 CDC employees are on administrative leave and getting paid but not working.

Trump did not share the official number of targets by decreasing the administration. The American Federation of Government Employee (AFGE) was compiled by the local 2883, which represents CDC staff.

The current round of reduction influences the National Center, Health Statistics Center, CDC Library, Agency’s Human Resources Department, Campus Protection workers as well as CDC’s office in Washington DC to prevent chronic disease and health, which serves as a communication with the Congress and provides public health information.

“The Health and Human Services Department’s Communications Director Andrew Nixon Email told Ward to” all HHS employees who received the reduction-in-forms notice were nominated by their respective departments. “

Among the re -established staff are the agency’s flagship publishing, the Morbidy and Marital weekly report, as well as the National Center for Immunization and respiratory led by the National Center for the national center for the disease and the emerging and zonotic infectious diseases. Members of the epidemic intelligence service, CDC’s “Disease Intelligence” unit were also returned.