Posted on 01/01/2019 8:52:23 AM PST by george76
President Trump should rescind EO 10988, decertify the federal employee unions, and drain more swamp.
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While any federal workplace reform is appreciated, President Trump missed an opportunity (“Fresh Air in the Swamp,” Review & Outlook, June 1.) He could have, and should have, simply rescinded President Kennedy’s Executive Order 10988 that recognizes the right of federal workers to bargain collectively.
A strong case for its revocation can be made to the American public. Why should 2.2 million federal workers enjoy both robust civil-service job protection and union representation? No wonder why, according to the CBO, federal salaries are 16% higher and employee benefits 48% higher than their private-sector counterparts. Outrageous.
Even that great champion of private-sector unions Franklin Roosevelt, of all people, thought unionization for federal workers was untenable, and wrote so: “All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining . . . cannot be transplanted into the public service.”
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President Trump should rescind EO 10988, decertify the federal employee unions and drain more swamp. That would really let in some fresh air.
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Revoke. Not repeal.
Yes. And Republicans should have passed the National Right to Work Act when they had control of everything.
Some activist judge will declare it law, like they did with DACA nonsense
I can imagine the you-know-what hitting the fan if Pres. Trump reversed an EO of the over rated, revered JFK.
NOT a matter of being gutless as Pres. Trump has the guts, but why bother handing another weapon to the Democrats to beat, and torture himself with?
Wholeheartedly agree.
Public employee unions should be illegal.
They were too busy reading Clinton Pee Pee stories about Trump and Hookers
Great idea, but first you need a USSC ruling that EOs do not create property rights that are invested with due process protections.
The latest trend in the lower courts seems to be that an EO, whether constitutional or not, invests its subjects with constitutional rights they can sue to defend.
afge and afscme need to be tossed in the round file. Or have a meeting with jimmy hoffa.
Great idea and I support it. You know though that the courts will smack it down as unconstitutional. Congress will move to make it law, and the rest will be the ruination of this country.
Problem with government unions is there is no one negotiating to protect the employer - the taxpayers.
It is sooooo overdue.
“Revoke” means (to annul or countermand some decision), but is used when the decision is a decree, or some form of permission issued by an official.
So you are correct in your usage of semantics. 8>)
The difference being, of course, the origin of the decree. It was never enacted as a law by Congress, apparently.
Precisely, in private enterprise the union negotiates with the company, who will bear the costs of any negotiations.
The politicians are representing the unions and the taxpayers get screwed.
That have been staffed with Marxists or pseudo Marxists...
I’d love for hi to do so. Maybe the second day of his second term would be the right time.
Happy New Year
Well, correct - but we need a solution.
I'm not sure there is a political one.
When I worked for the federal government, I was one of the very few in my location that did not belong to the union.
It is optional, thankfully, but rip it out, anyway!
IIRC, that EO was subsequently enacted as a law.
He should but he won’t and if he did it would not stick.
The sanctimonious republicans blew it. They missed an opportunity to make some lasting change but they didn’t becasue they are really just demonrats at heart. Pigs feeding at the troubgh of special interest money. Just another bunch of expensive whores.
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