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Show Page 2 HILL TOP TIMES April 21. 1978 20 blue-coll- ar Oedema! AF Flying Safety Award goes to 6514th Test Sq. Nationwide the average annual Federal salary in 1977 was $17,532 for white-collworkers and $14,331 for workers. ar With the words, I am especially pleased to have the 6514th Test Squadron as a vital part of my command," Brig. Gen. Philip J. Conley Jr. presented the Air Force Flying Safety Award for 1976 i About i Federal blue-coll- ar percent of all civilian employees are ; the rest w hite collar, postal and technical. blue-coll- to Hill's tenant unit. General Conley, commander, Air Force Flight Test Center. Edwards AFB, Calif., parent command of the 6514th, visited Hill on April 12 especially to present the award and to tour squadron resources at the base. 20 ar the 2.8 million Federal workers most are employed Of at Federal installations across the United States; only 125,000 are stationed overseas. Nearly as many workers are employed in California 1978 Cadillac Cpe de Ville as in the 12 Washington, D.C., area almost 11 percent percent. After California, States with the most Federal , civilian employees are Texas and Illinois. New-York- Executive Branch were the agencies primary employers: Department of Defense (985,000); U.S. Six Postal Service (635,000); Veterans Administration (226,000); Health, Education and Welfare (156,000); Treasury (123,000); and Agriculture (121,000). Federal civilian employees constitute 3 percent of all American workers and less than a fifth of all government Federal, State employees and local. Since the number of Federal employees has remained relatively stable in the Seventies, Federal emhas actually ployment declined in its proportion of total civilian employment. Likewise, it has declined in relation to total government employment. Some 92 percent of all Federal civilian workers are under merit employed 60 systems; percent are in the regulated by Commission; 25 appellate court for Last November minorities accounted for 21 percent of all e Federal employees for 30 percent. In women and 9,853 jobs minorities white-coll- ar accounted for 18 percent and women for 43 percent. In fiscal 1975, 40,000 Federal employees and job applicants were counseled alleged concerning discrimination. brought Counseling about corrective action in cases 13,000 (32 percent), while 7,000 formal complaints were filed after counseling. Of these, 52 percent discrimination onalleged the basis of race or color, 25 percent on the basis of sex (19 percent female and 6 percent male), 11 percent age, 10 percent national origin, and 4 percent religion. Promotions gave rise to 35 percent of the discrimination complaints, separations 9 percent, appointments to jobs 5 percent, suspensions percent, reassignments percent, and other matters 5 4 44 percent. And in fiscal 1977, CSC's appeals, received appeals from employees subject to "adverse personnel actions" and 2,587 ployees' complaints of discrimination. The FEAA rejected 26 percent of all appeals because they were filed late or fell outside the FEAA's Of the jurisdiction. remainder, FEAA upheld the agency in 75 percent of the cases. The employee, then, was successful in appealing 25 percent of the time. But of this 25 percent, three-fifth- s went in favor of the employee because of procedural errors by the agency. Only tw went in favor of the employee based on the merits of his case. Nearly two-third- of the s Federal civilian workforce is labor by represented in exclusive organizations bargaining units. Excluding the Postal Service, exclusive recognition covers more than half of the labor force almost half of white-collemployees and more than s of the ar blue-colla- Civil (U.S. Commission) I. TOTAL OF PAYMENTS em- three-fourth- OPEN END LEASE 48 Months Per Month Federal Employees Appeals Authority (FEAA), a kind of systems. percent in a I $9552. f " r Olds-Cadill- nr ac 8 'loaded To Capacity" MUM 2805 Washington Blvd. Ogden 394-166- 6 GJD Wides Triple One In Utah The Only 5 v is Single Wides 'a s Double Wides ssiSlIlSfllE O Motor Homos-Roa- Travel Trailors it Slide-In- s d Rangors '13,778 Campers Shells THINK DIAMONDS FOR MOTHER'S DAY 10 OFF All : 2446 Diamond Rings & Earrings until Mothers Day v WASH BLVD - OGDEN - . 1 399-114- 5 iEESHuaijiifoam r. Service m CZ3 V the U.S. Postal Service; and 6 percent in other merit full-tim- service Competitive the Civil Service TO racily zed foiree woorEx mmjA |