Broadcasting Board of Governors asked court to dismiss $400M contract employees’ class action suit
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE In the $400 million class action lawsuit against the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) for…
Law firm update on $400 million class action suit against BBG
BBG Watch BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE The Washington, D.C. law firm, Themis PLLC, has released additional information on its…
Broadening of $400 million class action lawsuit against Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary The Washington, D.C. law firm, Themis PLLC, has broadened its $400 million class action lawsuit,…
Themis PLLC offers update on $400M contractors class action lawsuit against BBG
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE The Washington, D.C. law firm, Themis PLLC, has released additional information on its $400 million…
Ismayilova Confirms Amal Clooney as Defense Counsel
BBG Watch Commentary “Imprisoned Azerbaijani journalist and RFE/RL contributor Khadija Ismayilova has confirmed that prominent human rights lawyer…
BBG Contract Employees $400M Class Action Complaint EXCLUSIVE
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE Commentary This article covers legal issues. Please read our Disclaimers and Terms of Use. …
Broadcasting Board of Governors Fantasy Reform
OPINION/COMMENTARY Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: It’s Over. We Lost. Fantasy Reform By The Federalist …
Union warned about abuses behind $400M class action suit against BBG
BBG Watch Commentary AFGE Local 1812, the union representing Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees, had warned repeatedly…
Misclassified: BBG faces $400mn lawsuit over contracting practices, report claims — RT USA reports
BBG Watch Commentary RT USA, the English language website of Russia’s overseas propaganda media outlet RT, is reporting…
BBG hit with $400M employee contractors suit
BBG Watch Commentary A $400 million class action lawsuit was filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Federal…
Will Broadcasting Board of Governors contract journalists petition the White House about exploitation?
BBG Watch Commentary “Great to see @Microsoft doing the right thing by extending paid leave benefits to contractors,”…
Voice of America Information War Lost: From Malfeasance To Perdition
BBG Watch Commentary International and U.S. media do not frequently comment on U.S. international media agency, the Broadcasting…
Letter of VOA and OCB Journalist Contractors to BBG Chairman and Congress
BBG Watch Commentary “Instead, the agency seems to be attempting to sweep the issue under the rug by…
Washington Post expanded column offers new details on Voice of America contracting scandal
BBG Watch Commentary We alerted BBG Watch readers to Joe Davidson‘s column in The Washington Post about the…
Greg Burns, Local 1418, on future of VOA and BBG – VIDEO
BBG Watch Commentary Greg Burns, a representative of Local 1418 which is one of the three employee unions…
Union comments on improper contracting by BBG – IBB – VOA – OCB officials
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch reposts a commentary by AFGE Local 1812. It deals with employment of private…
Government Executive reports on overuse and abuse of contractors at Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary Senior bureaucrats at the Voice of America (VOA) and the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG)…
Execs with worst communication skills in charge of U.S. world media outreach at BBG
BBG Watch Commentary A just released study by the Partnership for Public Service found that the Broadcasting Board…
Voice of America mission critical programming ‘is not considered inherently governmental function’, IBB executives claim
BBG Watch Commentary — Investigative Report — Waste and Mismanagement In a series of investigative reports, BBG Watch…
Voice of America wasted estimated millions on improper contract payments, Radio Free Asia gets clean bill of health
BBG Watch Commentary — Investigative Report — Waste and Mismanagement In a series of investigative reports, BBG Watch…
WT on BBG – ‘Government media board facing inquiry over hiring protocol’
The Washington Times reports that “the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the more than $700 million international media arm…
International Broadcasting Bureau – Information War: Lost and Dead – Freedom and Democracy Corrupted
International Broadcasting Bureau – Information War: Lost and Dead – Freedom and Democracy Corrupted By The Federalist All governments,…
Broadcasting Board Accused of Mishandling Contractor Taxes, Government Executive reports after BBG Watch
BBG Watch Commentary Government Executive, http://www.govexec.com/,a business news daily for federal managers and executives, is reporting after a…
OIG uncovers alleged massive unauthorized use of personal services contracts by IBB officials
BBG Watch Commentary Sources told BBG Watch that the Department of State Office of Inspector General (OIG) has…
Re: The Weakening Of The Rule of Law: An Agency Tragedy? – AFGE Local 1812 Editorial
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch is republishing as a public service an editorial posted on the website of…
Lost and Dead A New Level of Dysfunctional and Defunct – Part Two
International Broadcasting Bureau – Information War: Lost and Dead – A New Level of Dysfunctional and Defunct – Part Two…
Lost and Dead – A New Level of Dysfunctional and Defunct – Part One
International Broadcasting Bureau – Information War: Lost and Dead – A New Level of Dysfunctional and Defunct – Part One…
Alleged violations of IRS rules by IBB officials may cost taxpayers, U.S. agency millions
BBG Watch Exclusive Commentary BBG Watch has learned that officials of the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) at a…
Another Year, Hope Springs Eternal – Message from AFGE Local 1812 BBG Employee Union
BBG Watch is happy to publish his New Year Message from the American Federation of Government Employees, AFGE…
Employee union, AFGE Local 1812, joins many praising Victor Ashe’s tenure on Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary American Federation of Government Employees, AFGE Local 1812, a union representing Broadcasting Board of Governors…
U.S. court rules a contract employee can bring claims of discrimination against Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary In yet another defeat for the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) General Counsel (GC) Office,…
Will IBB make exploited and powerless VOA contract employees pay the price of sequestration?
BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) meeting last week, Governor Michael Meehan announced that…
A staff run amok
Jane Doe, one of our occasional commentators, sent us her thoughts on the latest OIG report on the…
Broadcasting Board of Governors' goal: All managers, no workers
The obvious goal is to produce a workforce that is ALL managers and NO workers, with no broadcasting…
Workforce is non federal, but bloated bureaucracy isn't
So the Broadcasting Board of Governors says privatizing VOA is “not on the table.” but VOA’s Mr. King…
HOWL – Part Four – Old-fashioned Cronyism at Broadcasting Board of Governors
A Voice of America journalist who uses a pen name Mary Jane has posed this problem: As we…
Employees don't buy 'computer system is to blame' explanation for late contractor payments
Judging by the content and the tone of comments to our report, “BBG orders that contractors be paid…
BBG orders that contractors be paid on time by Thanksgiving
BBG Watch has learned that at the Governance Committee meeting this week, the Committee adopted unanimously (all four Governors present were: Michael Lynton, Susan McCue, Dennis Mulhaupt and Victor Ashe; Lynton and McCue participated by phone) a motion directing that all contractors be paid on time by Thanksgiving of this year.
BBG’s Victor Ashe raises employee morale issues
In a rare move for a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a struggling federal agency which oversees U.S. government-funded news and information broadcasts for foreign audiences, BBG Governor Ambassador Victor Ashe raised the issue of employee morale at the Voice of America (VOA), one of the broadcasting entities managed by the BBG. Speaking at an open BBG meeting on October 13, 2011, Ambassador Ashe acknowledged that despite a minor improvement in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey results for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, BBG remains near the very bottom among all federal agencies in terms of employee morale.