Department of Government Efficiency

Union representatives for government employees are scrambling to understand the possible fate of several federal offices in Northeast Pennsylvania that appeared on lists slated for possible sale or lease termination.

Morale is low at the Tobyhanna Army Depot, which is part of the country’s organic industrial base and the largest industrial employer in Northeast Pennsylvania. The AFGE Local 1647 is trying to decipher confusing and chaotic instructions from the federal government, according to the president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1647.