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About the free 3-day Whistleblower
Summit - July 29-31, 2015
Over recent years members from the Make
It Safe Coalition (MISC) have arranged an
assembly of whistleblowers in Washington,
DC for an annual conference originally
known as Washington Whistleblower's
Week. This year's Whistleblower Summit for
Civil & Human Rights on Capitol Hill Host
committee members include --ACORN 8,
The Coalition For Change, Inc. (C4C),
Project Censored, Justice Integrity Project
and Federally Employed Women Legal
Education Fund (FEW-LEF). The theme for
the annual conference this year is:
Black Lives Matter--This Is The
Movement!

C4C Advocating for Racial Equality

in the Federal Sector
Tanya Ward Jordan
The Coalition for Change, Inc. (C4C) continues
to receive reports from present and former
federal
employees
about
government
workplace abuse. For this reason, C4C leaders,
David Grogan and Paulette Taylor joined me
last month in visiting the office of U.S. Senator
Benjamin Cardin to discuss with officials the
plight of many Maryland constituents and
others, who suffer reprisal after exposing civil
rights violations in the federal sector.

Register for the free Summit at

http://www.whistleblowersummit.com/

Read more by clicking HERE -- Hollywood

Filmmakers To Be Honored at Annual
Whistleblower Summit on Capitol, by
Michael McCray, OpEdNews.com, 6/16/15

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C4Cs Tanya Ward Jordan, David Grogan and Paulette Taylor

in front of U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC.

Our proactive self-help non-profit organization

- comprised of former and present employees
who have been injured or ill-treated due to
workplace discrimination and/or reprisal
recently made two separate Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) request. The C4C sent
a request to the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC) seeking
class action data. (The C4C awaits the
EEOCs reply.)
The C4C also sent a FOIA

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request to the Office of Personnel Management

(OPM). In reply, on June 29, 2015 the OPM
provided terminations and hires by ethnicity
and race as of fiscal year 2010 thru fiscal year
20141. A cursory review of FY 2010 data
exposes racial disparity rates in the
hiring / firing ratio of persons based on
race. For example, in FY2010, a total of
291,862 were hired and a total of 77,179 federal
civilian employees were terminated.

terminated from federal service and less likely

to be hired into federal service than Whites.
A complete analysis of data is underway.
Results will be posted on C4Cs website as well
as
announced
at
the
upcoming
Whistleblower
Summits
panel
discussion, scheduled for July 31, 2015,
covering federal workforce discriminations
adverse impact on the health and wealth of the
Black Community.

Whites comprised 71.2% (207,836) of new

federal hires; and 69.2% (53,424) of persons
terminated from the federal workforce. In FY
2010, the percentage of Whites fired fell 2%
below, the percent of Whites hired.

Alleged Discriminating Officials

AGRICUL
AGRICULTURE
RHOADS, Matthew A.

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Case No: RWT 08cv3015

Conversely, Blacks comprised 14.6% (42,571)

of federal new hires; and 15.4% (11,874) of
those terminated from the federal workforce.
In FY 2010, the percentage of Blacks fired
surpassed the percent of Black hired by .8%.

COMMERCE
JOHNSON, Ted

Bureau of Census
Civil Action No. CV-TDC14CV2862

NATL REGULATORY COMMISSION

SIMPLER, Gary
Civil Action No. JFM-13-3190

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

TAUBENHEIM, Ann
National Institute of Health
Civil Action No. 14-2231

HOMELAND SECURITY
JONES, Franklin

OWCP Docket No. 13-836

Preliminary trend data analysis discloses that

Blacks/African Americans are more likely to be
1

NOTE: OPM data provided exclusions - Postal Service, Central

Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence
Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Office of the
Director of National Intelligence and White House Office data were not
included in hire and termination totals.

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Persons listed above as Alleged Discriminating

Officials may no longer work at the Department where
the alleged discriminatory act occurred; however, persons
have been identified in public records by an aggrieved
party as a person either violating their or another parties
civil rights. No representation is being made about the
case completeness or culpability of any party.

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

AND HUMAN SERVICES

EXPOSED

No FEAR statistics

Shared by Terri L. Williams

Thomas Vilsack

Picture courtesy of T. Ward Jordan

The Notification and Federal Employee

Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002
(No FEAR Act), which became effective on
October 1, 2003 requires Federal agency
employers to report on its Federal equal
employment opportunity complaint activity.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) No FEAR data, which was
extracted from the agency website, is presented
below.
Number of Complaints
filed in 2014
Number of Complaints
Top 3 basis for filing
complaints and
totals of each

387
381
Reprisal 201
Sex 162
Race 156

Total Findings of
discrimination
Complaints pending
during fiscal year
Average number of days in
Investigation

1
402
231.90

In 2014, on average the HHS exceeded the

180 prescribed number of days for completing
investigation of complaints by 51 days, leaving
employees to languish in the administrative
system while awaiting a fair disposition of
claims presented. Reference: 29 CFR 1614.108 Investigation of complaints.

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Thomas James "Tom" Vilsack, who has

served as the United States Secretary of
Agriculture (USDA) since 2009, previously
served as the Governor of Iowa from 1999 to
2007. Employees of USDA have reported to
C4C that the Department fosters and creates
barriers to ensure minorities are hardly ever
promoted and exclusively allowed to remain
in the same job and grade year after year.
C4C was also informed: Things are worse
than ever at USDA. The Agency steps up
reprisal against employees who speak out in
any way using HR, and refuses to settle cases,
hoping people will leave or die. In October
2012 twelve women employed at the US Department
of Agriculture filed complaints of discrimination
against Secretary Tom Vilsack and President Barack
Obama. Read at http://tinyurl.com/qz66lzv
Notably, employees of the Iowas state
government filed charges alleging systemic
discrimination
against
the
state
for
discriminatory hiring practices. See 13 accuse
job agency of racism.
The Iowa
Department of Administrative Services opened
an investigation into the management at Iowa
Workforce Development. The investigation
disclosed that employees of the agency were
improperly given jobs, pay raises and bonuses.
A class action was filed (Linda Pippen, et al
v State of Iowa, et. al. Case No. 107038).

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President
Tanya Ward Jordan
Vice President
(Vacant)
Treasurer
Willie Abney
Civil Rights Chair
Paulette Taylor
Legislative Chair
Diane Williams
Greetings Chair
Terri L. Williams
Outreach Chair
Isaac Decatur
Health & Wellness Chair Arthuretta Holmes-Martin
C4C- Agency Analyst
David Grogan
C4C- Agency Analyst
Keesha Karriem

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