CDC union blasts lack of transparency from HHS in layoffs
Source: The Hill
10/14/25 6:30 PM ET
Four days after the Trump administration initiated a wave of layoffs across the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there’s still no official accounting of how many people were eliminated. Current and former staff, as well as members of the union representing CDC employees at the agency’s Atlanta headquarters, have been crowdsourcing data from impacted employees to estimate the exact number of people and positions that have been cut.
Leaders of AFGE Local 2883 told reporters Tuesday they have not received notifications of the positions or units that were impacted. “All of the information that we are sharing is from our membership, from our colleagues, from members of our community, as we are trying to piece together for ourselves a picture of what is happening,” a union member said.
More than a thousand people received layoff notices Friday, including employees who produce the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report publication, people working on chronic disease research, and people tracking and responding to the measles outbreak. HHS said many of those people were fired in error and quickly moved to bring them back beginning on Saturday.
In an updated court filing, HHS said it initially sent reduction in force (RIF) notices to approximately 1,760 employees on Friday. But due to what the agency said were “data discrepancies and processing errors” the notices should have only gone to 982 people.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5555773-trump-cdc-layoffs-impact/
Link to HHS FILING (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.457131/gov.uscourts.cand.457131.49.1.pdf