Posted on 10/17/2013 8:05:49 PM PDT by Lonely Bull
The problem is that the managers are cowards. Instead of resisting union demands, they cave into union demands. It is so much easier to kick the can down the road.
And why should the managers care? They have their own bonuses and pensions to keep them happy.
But there is a solution to all this. Break up the system and privatize the parts. Competition does wonders for cleaning out crud. But of course that will never happen.
Lamestream media reporting this shutdown as Ted Cruz’s fault in 3...2...1...
Union thugs using public equipment to pay themselves for life.
I guess I have to post this for every individual Freeper who holds that view:
"All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. ... Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government.""
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Letter on the Resolution of Federation of Federal Employees Against Strikes in Federal Service", 1937
>> “The system was designed to operate without operators, like your typical airport shuttles” <<
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True, and whenever they do something it causes major trouble.
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