In the Service Service office at 30 and market, employees provide taxpayers’ services, for example, receiving phones to answer questions.
The response to these calls in a timely manner can be a fight, said Alex Jay Berman, executive vice president of the Treasure of Association of Union 71, which is over 3600 IRS employees in this location. Sometimes the callers have to wait hours.
“This is what we want to avoid. We want to do it so that you can contact us, “Berman said, noting that waiting times are also a problem in other locations.
However, personnel reductions, because Trump’s administration releases federal employees throughout the country, may augment the challenge.
As part of dismissals between federal agencies last week, professional relationships and networks survived by federal employees in Philadelphia.
But the full impact locally remains unclear and liquid.
On Tuesday, local dismissals included at least one employee of general services administration, two in the Veterans Department and two in the USA Department of Agriculture, according to representatives of the Union.
Among the recently released representative, among the recently released representative, at least three employees in the region of 3 Environmental Protection Agencies, which includes Pennsylvania and Delaware.
At the weekend, two trial employees were dissolved at the Independence National Historical Park, which was already operating with at least 30 unwashed holes.
Thousands of federal employees have been dismissed in the US in recent days. About 3,400 employees in Forest Service, 2000 in the energy department and over 1000 in the Veteran Department were released, Wall Street Journal reported last week.
Hundreds of employees of the Federal Aviation Administration are sophisticated as About 73 employees in the consumer financial protection office and Over 100 in the administration of general servicesAccording to media reports.
“There is a lot of shock in the whole system, which, I think, made sense in this,” said Philip Glover, national vice president of the American Federation of Government Workers (AFGE) District 3. “People wonder if they are next, of course. Although they are not in the trial period, are they called and said: “Do we put you away?”
Assessment of influence on the Philadelphia area
AFGE represents about 9,400 federal employees in Philadelphia and nearby, among about 800,000 in the country and abroad. When Glover tried to determine the number of local dismissals on Monday, the federal offices were closed on the day of the presidents, and the protesters throughout the country joined the demonstration against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Federal employees and supporters are also Protest planning on Wednesday In Philadelphia near the Independence National Historical Park as part of the National Day of Action with the Federal Unionists Network.
Representative of the American Madeleine Dean (D., Pa.), Who represents Montgomery and Berks, said that the best administrators at VA medical centers in Philadelphia and Coatesville contacted her with “a sense of solemn care.” They said that her clinicians in the hospital are concerned about the physical and mental health of veterans, said Dean. In an interview on Tuesday, she said that she did not know the exact number of people released in these centers.
“People are so afraid,” said Karen Ford-Woods, a retired VA employee and AFGE LOCAL 1793 president, who represents the employees of the VA Hospital, including EMS employees and direct patient care suppliers. “You talk about people who come to an organization that represents as one of the best jobs, and you think you will have a career, work and receive a pension.”
Ford-Woods said last week that they knew about the dismissed two employees of VA units, one of which was an employee of the facilities.
FAA refused to comment on whether employees at the international airport in Philadelphia received hundreds of FAA dismissals.
“FAA still employs air traffic controllers and safety specialists, including mechanics and others who support them,” said the American spokesman for the Transport Department. “The agency has detained employees who perform critical functions of security.”
According to Brad Starnes, a local president of 3631 AFGE, on EPA, before the last dismissals, 14 employees of the 3rd region of the 3rd region of the 3rd region conducted on environmental justice were on vacation at the beginning of this month.
In the USA, Epa said this month He placed 171 employees on vacation who were part of environmental justice or dei epa programs.
“They receive remuneration, but they do not have access to the EPA network and are only waiting for the next everything that will happen later,” said Starnes, who noticed that some of the holidays are members of the Union.
Curator employees looking for a legal appeal
Most of the last federal cuts focused on trial workers, who have been in their position for usually less than a year.
Glover said that these employees generally control periodically with their superiors in terms of assessment of work efficiency.
“Some of these people have reached the last quarterly [check-in with their supervisor] Telling them that they are doing well, they are doing well, they will be stopped – said Glover. “And then this administration enters and slows down.”
The union is looking for appeal options for these employees, including in the USA Committee on equal employment opportunities (EEOC). Asset He has already started transforming the commission by shooting two democratic commissioners in January.
“It seems that people forget why [these probationary employees] were employed. They were employed to replace employees who were leaving – said Glover. “It’s a turn. It is not that they do not do their work. “
