WP: Union Leader Says FEMA Is Trying to Oust Him

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Washington Post

Union Leader Says FEMA Is Trying to Oust Him

By Stephen Barr
Tuesday, June 5, 2007; Page D04

A union leader at the Federal Emergency Management Agency filed a complaint yesterday saying that FEMA is trying to force him out of his job because he urged Congress to take the agency out of the Department of Homeland Security.

Leo Bosner, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 4060, is an emergency-management program analyst at FEMA and has worked at the agency since its creation in 1979.


FEMA Administrator R. David Paulison has rejected the charge.

In his complaint, Bosner wrote that a FEMA security officer told him that "because I have a security clearance I must resign from the union, and I can be fired if I refuse to do so."

Bosner filed his complaint with the Office of Special Counsel, an independent agency that investigates allegations of improper personnel actions in the government, including employee claims of retribution from their superiors because they blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse.



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