The July 2015 issue of The C4C Federal Exchange Newsletter:- discloses the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services​'​ failure to timely investigate employee complaints of civil rights abuses​;​ - exposes U.S. Department of Agriculture​s culture​ of reprisal under the leadership of Thomas Vilsack, former Governor of Iowa: - reveals federal government hire/fire rates by race; - lists some public officials named in EEO complaints; and - announces the free Jul​​y 29-31, 2015 Whistleblower Summit taking place in Washington DC​​.

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Three (3-day) Free Summit!
C4C’s Tanya Ward Jordan, David Grogan and Paulette Taylor
in front of U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
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.
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
EEOC’s reply.) The C4C also sent a FOIA
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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!
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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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.
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.”
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%.
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.
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 C4C’s website as well
as announced at the upcoming
Whistleblower Summit’s panel
discussion, scheduled for July 31, 2015,
covering federal workforce discrimination’s
adverse impact on the health and wealth of the
Black Community.
Alleged Discriminating Officials
AGRICUL
AGRICULTURE
RHOADS, Matthew A.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Case No: RWT 08cv3015
COMMERCE
JOHNSON, Ted
Bureau of Census
Civil Action No. CV-TDC14CV2862
NAT’L 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
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
No FEAR statistics
Shared by Terri L. Williams
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.
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.
EXPOSED
Thomas Vilsack
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 Iowa’s 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).
Number of Complaints
filed in 2014
387
Number of Complaints 381
Top 3 basis for filing
complaints and
totals of each
Reprisal 201
Sex 162
Race 156
Total Findings of
discrimination
1
Complaints pending
during fiscal year
402
Average number of days in
Investigation
231.90

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