Press Releases

More and more workplace discrimination cases are being closed before they're even investigated, 6/14/19 EEOC employees union wastes no time presenting issues to new chairwoman, 5/16/19 Union Issues Top 10 Priorities for New EEOC Chair, 5/15/19 EEOC gets budget bump in the #MeToo Era, AFGE Release, 4/13/18 Union Warns Justice Denied by EEOC's Great Case Dump, AFGE Release, 11/14/17 EEOC Issues Top 10 Challenges For New Agancy Chair, 9/3/14 EEOC Union To Attend White House Summit On Working Families To Urge EEOC To Embrace Telework For Its Own Workers, 6/23/14 EEOC Celebrates Public Employee Recognition Week Busting Morale And Blocking Added Telework Day, 5/6/14 Government Shutdown, 9/23/13 Friday is Decision Day for EEOC for Second Round of Furloughs, 7/12/13 Union Successfully Campaigns to Stop EEOC Furloughs, 7/11/13 Union Calls On EEOC To Pull Plug On Second Round Of Furloughs, 6/24/13 Press Release: EEOC Celebrates Admin Day by Furlough Admin Staff & Funding Temps, 4/24/13 Press Release: EEOC Union Issues BOLO for Savings to Reduce Furloughs 4/8/13 Press Release - President Martin to Testify Before Congress 3/22/12 Press Release - EEOC Employee's Union Will Testify Before Congress Fiscal New Years Resolutions for EEOC, Council Release, 10/4/10 EEOC UNION FILES ULP COMPLAINTS AGAINST ALL 53 EEOC FIELD OFFICES, Council Release, 8/4/10 EEOC's Anniversary Hoopla Glosses Over Today's Unaddressed Challenges, Council Release, 7/21/10 COUNCIL 216 LAUDS $18M BUDGET INCREASE FOR EEOC TO CRACK DOWN ON WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION, Council Release, 2/1/10 UNION HOPEFUL EEOC NOMINATION HEARING MEANS HELP IS ON THE WAY, Council Release, 11/19/09 EEOC UNION ISSUES TOP 10 CHALLENGES FOR NEW AGENCY CHAIR 7/22/09 PRESIDENT SUPPORTS CIVIL RIGHTS WITH A $23M BUDGET BOOST FOR EEOC, Council Release, 5/13/09 Council President Gabrielle Martin's Testimony to Congress, 4/2/09 FY09 Budget Bill Gives EEOC A Down Payment On a Much Needed Increase, Council Release 3/16/09 ARBITRATOR RULES THAT EEOC VIOLATES OVERTIME LAW, Press Release - 03/26/09, Full Decision - 3/23/09 EEOC GETS AN "F" FOR KEEPING UP WITH ITS WORKLOAD IN 2008, Council Release, 11/20/08 Un-Happy Fiscal New Year! - Council Release 10/01/2008 EEOC's Strategic Plan Fails the Public, Council Release 7/30/08 EEOC CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT HEARING 4/10/08, Council Release EEOC EMPLOYEES' UNION WILL TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESS 4/2/08, Council Release Another Failing Report Card for the EEOC, Council Release, 3/11/08 EEOC EMPLOYEES' UNION SAYS: STOP SHORTCHANGING CIVIL RIGHTS' BUDGET, Council Press Release, 1/23/08 The Public Loses In Chair Earp's Game of Chicken - Council Release, 12/11/07 SENATOR MIKULSKI LEADS EFFORT TO RESTORE WEAKENED EEOC TO HELP AMERICAN WORKERS, Council Release, 7/10/07 Mikulski Implements Reform, Increases Funding for EEOC in Spending Bill, Sen. Mikulski Release, 2/28/07 Senate Overseers Call EEOC to Task For "Management, Moral, and Money" Council Release 5/3/07 Mikulski: EEOC is Failing Mission to Protect Civil Rights, Office of Sen. Mikulski, 5/3/07 EEOC UNION PRESIDENT MARTIN WILL TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESS 4/24/07, Council Release, 4/23/07 EEOC CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT HEARING 3/20/07, Council Release, 3/16/07 EEOC's 2006 Failing Report Card, Council Press Release, 1/18/07 EEOC INSTRUCTS PUBLIC: HANG UP, DON'T LEAVE A MESSAGE, *CLICK*, Council Release, 10/23/07 EEOC Throws Farewell Party for Chair, While Offices Continue to Lose Staff, Council Release 8/28/06 Survey of EEOC's call center confirms "national calamity" -waste, added layer of beauracracy and inferior service - Council Release 4/17/06 Lawmakers Oppose Cuts To Civil Rights Enforcement - Council Release, 3/23/06 Agency seeks to remove overtime EEOC S REORGANIZATION SPELLS NEW YEAR'S DOOM, Council Release, 1/3/06 Mikulski, Kennedy Express Renewed Concerns Over EEOC Restructuring, Impact on Federal Employees in Baltimore," 12/15/06 EEOC RUSHES ANOTHER VOTE ON ITS CONTROVERSIAL PLAN TO SHRINK THE CIVIL RIGHTS AGENCY, Council Release, 12/14/05 EEOC TO GOFORWARD WITH REORGANIZATION WITH OR WITHOUT SENATE APPROVAL, National CouncilRelease, 12/12/05 TubbsJones Comments on GAO Report on EEOC Restructuring Proposal, 10/28/05 EEOC EMPLOYEES? UNIONRELEASES PLAN TO IMPROVE CUSTOMER SERVICE AT THE CIVIL RIGHTS AGENCY, NationalCouncil Release, 9/28/05 EEOCPOISED TO VOTE FOR GIANT STEP BACKWARDS FOR THE FUTURE OF CIVIL RIGHTSENFORCEMENT, National Council Release, 7/8/05 EEOC HUMORS THE PUBLIC WITH AFORUM, BUT STILL REFUSES TO CHANGE PLAN TO DISMANTLE THE AGENCY, NationalCouncil Press Release, 6/23/05 EEOC RUSHES PLAN TO DISMANTLE AGENCY, National Council Press Release, 6/16/05 Congresswoman Tubbs Jones Urges Reconsideration of EEOC Restructuring Proposal,5/17/05 EEOC CANCELSRESTRUCTURING VOTE AFTER MOUNTING COMPLAINTS THAT PUBLIC WAS NOT GIVEN TIME OROPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT 5/16/05 Capps Calls On EEOC to Stop Proposed Changes that Would Hurt Women, Minority Victims of Discrimination, 5/16/05 EEOC IGNORES CALLS FROMCONGRESS, LABOR, AND CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS TO ALLOW FOR PUBLIC COMMENT BEFOREVOTING ON RESTRUCTURING, 5/16/05 EEOC REFUSES TO ALLOW THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON NATIONWIDE RESTRUCTURING OF OFFICES, 5/11/05 EEOC’S OUTSOURCED CALL CENTER BOONDOGGLE BEGINS TODAY 3/21/05 NOVEMBER 16, 2004 - AT UP TO 36 OPERATORS, POOR HOURS AND A $4.0 MILLION DOLLAR PRICE TAG, UNION CALLS ON CONGRESS TO HALT EEOC’S CALL CENTER September 29, 2004- OCTOBER 1 DAY OF MOURNING FOR EEOC'S LOST CHARGES September 15, 2004- EEOC COMMISSIONERS TO VOTE SEPTEMBER 17, 2004 ON OUTSOURCING CIVIL RIGHTS TO A PRIVATIZED CALL CENTER AFGE Press Release Regarding Sen.Kennedy Sign On Letter Opposing EEOC Workforce Repositioning AFGE Press Release Regarding 102 House Members Signing Onto EEOC Letter