Contact Jordan LaPier Director (202) 495-3320 jlapier@ourpublicservice.org Broad Coalition of Employee, Advocacy Groups Makes Last-Ditch Effort to Convince Congress to Block Schedule F December 15, 2020 A group of more than 60 organizations representing various facets of the federal workforce and an array of policy advocates last week pushed Democratic lawmakers to negotiate as part of legislation to keep the government open past this week language blocking a controversial effort by the Trump administration to strip the civil service protections from potentially hundreds of thousands of federal workers.