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Govt. Union Rep: Employees Only Have To Be “Available To Work” To Get Paid
Hotair ^ | August 22,2017 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 08/22/2017 7:02:11 PM PDT by Hojczyk

t’s not just the VA where we’re having trouble cutting out the deadwood, however. This report from the Washington Post has at least one real eye opener in it. The head of the Treasury has been made aware of problems at the Patent and Trademark Office. Over there, a number of workers were found to be falsifying their time reporting, billing the government for hundreds of thousands of dollars for time not worked. In some of the most severe cases, workers put in two hours of time, then had the audacity to charge the government for a full day plus two hours of overtime. Only one person has managed to be fired in that scandal and that case may be put on hold also.

Sounds like this should be fairly easy to clean up, right? Not so fast. Enter Harold Ross, president of Local 243 of the National Treasury Employees Union. He doesn’t see any reason for disciplinary action because even if his union members weren’t on the job, they were available to work. (Emphasis added)

A union official denied any impropriety, saying his members “were available to work” but often finished their tasks quickly and awaited more assignments, a practice that went on for as long as a decade.

“My employees are not in the wrong,” said Harold Ross, president of Local 243 of the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents the unit. “They produce fast. They’re available for the whole time. All of a sudden, management wants to come against them.”

Patent office spokesman Paul Rosenthal said in an email the agency does not comment on specific personnel cases. For the umpteenth time we see the disconnect between reality and how things work in the union world.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: federalemployees; federalworkers; nteu; union
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1 posted on 08/22/2017 7:02:11 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

UnFuckingBelievable.


2 posted on 08/22/2017 7:31:18 PM PDT by JPJones (There is no Law but Constitutional Law, and America is Its Agent)
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To: Hojczyk
Local 243 of the National Treasury Employees Union

Why does this exist?

3 posted on 08/22/2017 7:32:36 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Hojczyk

Nice work, if you can be available for it.


4 posted on 08/22/2017 7:35:00 PM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Good question.


5 posted on 08/22/2017 7:37:47 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and Israel.)
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To: Hojczyk

Guess it’s time to review the departmental budget.


6 posted on 08/22/2017 7:44:45 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: oblomov
“My employees are not in the wrong,” said Harold Ross, president of Local 243 of the National Treasury Employees Union

So, they "work" for the union, but get paid by us. Sounds about right.

7 posted on 08/22/2017 7:50:06 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: Hojczyk

My brother used to work in HR there. He was in charge of interacting with the unions. The stories he used to tell me. Just as in the article, he would have employees come to work, work for a few hours, then read comic books for the rest of the day. In another case, he had a worker come in with a baseball bat, threatening to assault other employees. Due to the unions in both cases, he couldn’t fire them.


8 posted on 08/22/2017 7:53:41 PM PDT by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. — Mark Twain)
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To: Hojczyk

The very idea of union workers working quickly and efficiently is ludicrous on its face.


9 posted on 08/22/2017 8:01:10 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (Proud member of Trump's army of online trol)
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To: Newtoidaho; ExTexasRedhead

“The very idea of union workers working quickly and efficiently is ludicrous on its face.”

The ONLY THINGs any union is good at are f*cking their employer (in this case us) and f*cking off!


10 posted on 08/22/2017 8:11:09 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Hojczyk

The only thing as pathetic as fed unions is fed management. Pack of morons.


11 posted on 08/22/2017 8:17:27 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: Hojczyk

I have to work with unions from time to time. Usually means projects behind schedule and over budget. I get a kick out of how the unions wave American flags and call it a brotherhood.

Socialist back stabbers, suck up to the commissar or don’t get work is the reality. Only they call him the shop steward.


12 posted on 08/22/2017 8:28:50 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Hojczyk
Govt. Union Rep: Employees Only Have To Be “Available To Work” To Get Paid.

According to whom, and under what authority?

What's up with Federal employees or their Union choosing to accet limitations or ignoring rules they agree with or not?
Is Obama's no longer transferable and criminal unconstitutional arrogance still transferable?

13 posted on 08/22/2017 8:33:56 PM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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To: Hojczyk

Where’s my check?


14 posted on 08/22/2017 8:36:32 PM PDT by W. (What's crackin', bitch? Har!)
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To: Hojczyk

Well it sounds like a down sizing makes sense. I’ve seen government sinecures like this, however.


15 posted on 08/22/2017 9:07:36 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Hojczyk; All
Another issue that needs to be addressed regarding federal employees is the following.

If federal employees are working for a federal agency that cannot be justified under any of the powers that the states have expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds, most of these powers listed in Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, then these employees need to find new jobs outside the federal government imo.

Also, although Trump is accomplishing a LOT as president, it remains that since the uniparty Congress wants to get rid of him that his first two years in office are arguably just practice. That being said ...

Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer!

Remember in November 2018 !

Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the sewer (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to patriots to drain the sewer in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.

In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.

Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.

Also, unlike incumbent members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following.

Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.

”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!

16 posted on 08/22/2017 9:14:23 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Hojczyk

well, one thing is right.

they CAN get their work done in 2 hours - because, on average, these ‘can’t fire’ gov’t jobs have 2-3 people on the payroll for every job that could be handled by one person -


17 posted on 08/22/2017 9:48:32 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ( Christian is as Christian does mt-h)
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To: Hojczyk

If this is NOT in the labor contract, a simple letter to the union saying that this illegal practice will cease immediately should suffice. If it is in the contract, which I doubt, that is why we have union contract RENEGOTIATIONs.


18 posted on 08/22/2017 10:30:45 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: Hojczyk

Jeez, when I was growing up, if I told them (a private workplace) to pay me for being available, I’d be shown the door. If my employees did that, I’ll tell them ‘Don’t let the door hit you in the ass!’


19 posted on 08/23/2017 3:51:07 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: maine-iac7

Most government jobs are workfare to feign assimilation by certain ethnic/gender minorities; they cling to government because many have little value in the private sector.


20 posted on 08/23/2017 4:11:47 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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