Posted on 12/03/2014 5:48:31 PM PST by mdittmar
Against all odds, AFGE last month reached its highest membership ever at 288,374 members. AFGE’s membership has grown every single year for decades, a remarkable accomplishment considering the fact that every year 40,000-100,000 federal employees retire and 30,000-40,000 leave the federal service. The federal civilian workforce is also the smallest since 1966.
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“The federal civilian workforce is also the smallest since 1966.”
Oh, BS. The CIVILIAN workforce is the smallest it’s pretty much EVER been; Government has grown and grown and grown and GROWN!
I can’t access the linked site, but, based upon reading posted comments and articles by federal employees, I understand why that union’s membership is so high. Many federal employees are overpaid and underworked but actually believe that they are substantially underpaid compared to private sector workers. They have worked themselves into believing they are victims; they don’t realize THEY are the victimizers lording it over folks working for a living in the private economy.
About a 300,000 (10%) decline from the end of Bush I to 2012. Slightly higher than Bush II final numbers. http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/federal-employment-reports/historical-tables/total-government-employment-since-1962/
What has greatly increased are the number of federal contractors. Country club republicans don’t complain about that, however, because they are getting a slice of that pie.
The only way this is possible is if AFGE is getting new departments to affiliate with them. The young Feds aren’t joining the unions.
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