Federal employees union to Pentagon: Stop all furloughs

The union representing federal government employees is calling on the Pentagon to stop using furloughs as a “political signal” and eliminate all further unpaid leave for Pentagon civilians.

“Furloughs have too often been used by the Pentagon to send certain political messages about sequestration to Congress rather than to generate the savings required by sequestration,” American Federation of Government Employees President Jeffrey David Cox said in a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday.