Posted on 10/30/2015 9:13:53 AM PDT by SandRat
SIERRA VISTA — Fort Huachuca leadership are disputing the figures cited by the local president of a union of federal employees regarding the number of civilian positions lost on the military installation over the last year and a half.
"Recently, a false report of 1,100 Department of the Army civilians being cut from Fort Huachuca over the past 18 months has come to our attention. Let me be as clear about this as I possibly can: that number is incorrect,†said Tom Borer, deputy to the Garrison Commander Col. Thomas Boone, in a statement Thursday.
On Wednesday, Katie Rasdall, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1662, said that 1,100 civilian worker positions on post had been lost over the last 18 months. That number, Rasdall said in an email, “is based off the number of Bargaining unit employees that the Union can track.†She went on to define bargaining unit employees as “the employees that the Union can represent.â€
They knew this back in July, Base cutbacks in Army budgets given as the reason. My brother lived in Sierra Vista for many years and he told me only about a year or so ago that the area was booming in building at that
Huachuca was supposed to aggregate forces from others in a regional manner
I am sure there is absolutely no connection to the “political leanings” of the State...
Government regularly plays games with firing numbers. Say they actually let 20 people go. If those people were contractors they say that no employees were let go. Or if 19 were contractors and one was an official employee only one person was let go. There are several ways to classify people who work at a location. The actual number of people no longer working there, who lost their job, my be high. But the official number of actual employees who lost their job may be much less. You have to parse out every word to even estimate the real story.
News Flash Katie: There should be NO public employee unions anywhere. Even FDR opposed public employee unions. If you’re a public employee and member of a union, with whom do you “bargain” - yourself? Taxpayers - the only other entity with a dog in the fight - have no representation in collective bargaining with public employee unions.
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