Federal court rulings have narrowed staff protections at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, allowing at least 600 CDC employees to be terminated after a judge limited protections to six CDC divisions. The litigation followed HHS Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s March announcement to lay off 10,000 department workers, including 2,400 CDC staff. Some terminated teams, such as those preventing lead poisoning, were said to be mistakenly cut and slated for reinstatement. The American Federation of Government Employees cited a lack of HHS transparency and warned that staff losses make the nation less safe and weaken public health capacity.
Due to a staggering lack of transparency from HHS, AFGE Local 2883 has not received formal notice of which groups are being separated today so we can't even determine the full extent of everything being lost.
Our public health system is weaker than ever before,
However, we know that America is less safe, our public health system is weaker than ever before, and our workforce is less capable o
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