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At least 600 CDC employees are getting final termination notices, union says
Scripps News ^ | 8:49 AM, Aug 21, 2025 | AP via Scripps News Group

Posted on 08/21/2025 10:38:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The permanent cuts include about 100 people who worked in violence prevention.

At least 600 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are receiving permanent termination notices in the wake of a recent court decision that protected some CDC employees from layoffs but not others.

The notices went out this week and many people have not yet received them, according to the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than 2,000 dues-paying members at CDC.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday did not offer details on the layoffs and referred an AP reporter to a March statement that said restructuring and downsizing were intended to make health agencies more responsive and efficient.

AFGE officials said they are aware of at least 600 CDC employees being cut.

But “due to a staggering lack of transparency from HHS," the union hasn't received formal notices of who is being laid off,” the federation said in a statement on Wednesday.

The permanent cuts include about 100 people who worked in violence prevention. Some employees noted those cuts come less than two weeks after a man fired at least 180 bullets into the CDC's campus and killed a police officer.

“The irony is devastating: The very experts trained to understand, interrupt and prevent this kind of violence were among those whose jobs were eliminated,” some of the affected employees wrote in a blog post last week.

On April 1, the HHS officials sent layoff notices to thousands of employees at the CDC and other federal health agencies, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the agencies responsible for protecting and promoting Americans’ health.

Many have been on administrative leave since then — paid but not allowed to work — as lawsuits played out.

A federal judge...

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KEYWORDS: cdc; labor; unions; wellbye

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The permanent cuts include about 100 people who worked in violence prevention.

"Violence prevention" is code for abolishing (legal) private firearms ownership.

1 posted on 08/21/2025 10:38:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Winning!


2 posted on 08/21/2025 10:40:38 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The permanent cuts include about 100 people who worked in violence prevention. Some employees noted those cuts come less than two weeks after a man fired at least 180 bullets into the CDC’s campus and killed a police officer.

“The irony is devastating: The very experts trained to understand, interrupt and prevent this kind of violence were among those whose jobs were eliminated,” some of the affected employees wrote in a blog post last week.


Well maybe fired because they DID NOT interrupt and prevent. I suppose they understand ..............................


3 posted on 08/21/2025 10:46:22 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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“”” The very experts trained to understand, interrupt and prevent this kind of violence were among those whose jobs were eliminated,” “”””

The CDC is a law enforcement agency now?????????


4 posted on 08/21/2025 10:49:34 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

WTF are unions doing in the fed gov?-)


5 posted on 08/21/2025 10:50:40 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK of !US:-)p)
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Good.


6 posted on 08/21/2025 10:56:01 AM PDT by oil_dude
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These people are anti-gun trying to say guns are a health threat. They need to be gone.


7 posted on 08/21/2025 11:06:08 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

Rut Ro! Time to find a real job.


8 posted on 08/21/2025 11:52:33 AM PDT by Dave911
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...600 CDC employees are getting final termination notices...

That seems harsh. Couldn't they just fire them?

9 posted on 08/21/2025 12:00:54 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Japanese just released a study with millions of people that showed people who got the mrna vaccine were as much as 4 times more likely to die within 5 months of getting the shot. The more often you got the shot, the more likely you were to die. And the most people who died did so 3 months after the shot. These people in the CDC should be hung like those doctors at the Nuremberg trials. Just getting fired is far too good for them. They are Hitler/Stalin evil.


10 posted on 08/21/2025 12:14:05 PM PDT by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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Putting up a sign that says “Please don’t shoot us” is probably just as effective as the 100 employees.


11 posted on 08/21/2025 12:27:49 PM PDT by Zathras
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Good
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12 posted on 08/21/2025 12:32:00 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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"Violence prevention" is code for abolishing (legal) private firearms ownership."
“There are nationally and internationally recognized experts that will be impossible to replace,” said Tom Simon, the retired senior director for scientific programs at the CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention.

Some good news. Impossible to replace. ;-)

13 posted on 08/21/2025 12:39:48 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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“Permanent Termination Notices”???

Does this mean they have already received planned, possible, preliminary, and semi-permanent notices of termination?

That would mean that their intelligence level is quite low, not figuring out that it would be best to start working on a new resume...


14 posted on 08/21/2025 7:07:31 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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