Posted on 05/27/2018 8:24:22 AM PDT by mandaladon
The latest executive order news coming out of the White House addresses some long overdue questions about government workers and their unions. Efforts to not only shrink the size of government but to remove ineffective or misbehaving workers have largely been stymied by union agreements which were crafted over decades with nobody at the bargaining table looking out for the taxpayer. Other goodies for the labor groups allowed most of their union work to be done on government time and using government resources. These executive orders will be changing some of those processes. (Government Executive).
Some of the biggest (and best) changes address policies which we’ve been carping about here for years. The first one shortens the period of Performance Improvement Plans (where the misbehaving or underperforming worker is given time to straighten up and fly right) to 30 days across all agencies. Under the old system, these PIPs could last up to half a year.
The next change really hits the motherload, though. Trump is clamping down on so-called “official time” where employees who are union officials can spend unlimited time doing union work while they are on the clock, sometimes doing zero work for the public. They also get to use offices and other government equipment for union work at no cost. Trump is clamping down on that, ordering that no union officials spend more than 25% of their work hours on union business and ordering a new agreement where the unions can use their own facilities or pay rent for using government offices. These changes are long, long overdue.
Already being called “a devastating blow” by some union supporters, opponents may be surprised to find that there probably isn’t much sympathy among the public for the status quo in government human resources management.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
A recent Government Accountability Office report showed that it takes between six months and a year to remove a federal employee for poor performance, followed by an eight-month appeals process.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~All you'll get from the MSM is "TRUMP ATTACKS GOV'T WORKERS!
Now get rid of the tenure cr**.
Swamp draining at the industrial level, while simultaneously running the pumps at full speed in the intel community.
Another reason for the panic amongst the deep state and entitlement civil service class.
All this is meaningless until the Douglas Factors relative to the table of penalties are effectively addressed.
Another thread from yesterday with some 50 comments
if anyone cares to scan thru them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3658190/posts
Trump Moves to Ease the Firing of Federal Workers ^
Feds currently withhold union dues from employee checks.
Would be good to stop that practice.
I hope ALL government “workers” take this to heart...and start working. LOL. Also, stop sneering and condescending when I walk into your office to be “served”.
WOOOOHOOOO President Donald J. Trump! Thank you, sir.
It’s a BIG, TOXIC, STAGNANT SWAMP.
It would actually be better if multiple government agencies were combined into ONE agency as a reorganization plan. This way, duplicate responsibilities could be identified and eliminated altogether. Is reorganization against the law? Guarantees on a federal job can only exist if that job itself exist. Find a way to redefine jobs in such a way as to be able to decrease job holders. It happens all of the time in the private sector. The Fourteenth Amendment says we are ALL equal, so if this practice is legal in the private sector, it is legal in the public sector as well despite the language written into any labor agreement. That language cannot overule the language of a Constitutional Amendment.
What the hell is wrong with these people. Where is the common sense. How can we turn this around ?
DjT has answered the bell 30-40 times in 18 months ! Dreams fulfilled.....mana from heaven
Trump skipped over Drano and went straight for lye.
Public employee unions are a direct threat to the Republic.
Should never have been allowed.
More WINNING. Big time! Thanks for the post.
Divine providence.
We have been given one last chance to save America.
It is up to US to drain the swamp of Congress.
My district showed how it’s done in 2014 when we dumped the weasel Eric Cantor.
Bush League Republicans must become extinct politically.
I was hired as a contract attorney (1 year position) for a fedgov agency right out of law school back in the mid-90s.
I hadn’t even gotten my butt into my chair when union reps came knocking on my door asking if I would like to join the union.
And the stories I could tell about people who sat around and did literally nothing.
That is a big fear for public employee unions.
The only way any union work should be funded by taxpayer money is if the union makes NO political donations. Period.
Spending my money on politics I disagree with is taxation without representation. Very unAmerican.
Can we call this the "The Big Lye"?
A slight breach of etiquette.
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