Posted on 05/23/2019 3:00:27 PM PDT by RightGeek
Employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are quitting at a rapid clip as Secretary Sonny Perdue prepares to move forward with plans to relocate two offices far outside the Washington, D.C., Beltway.
Federal employees at the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) – two small but important agencies within the USDA – are unhappy with Perdue’s plan, announced last August, to move the majority of their staff from current offices in the capital to an area closer the country’s agricultural centers.
“This move does not serve a public purpose,” Peter Winch, a representative for the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents ERS workers, told Fox News. “Employees don’t want to move, and it doesn’t make sense for them to move.”
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Winch added that since ERS employees joined AFGE earlier this month, six employees have already quit their jobs with the government agency in response to the planned move. He said overall staffing is down to 209 from 300 during the Obama administration.
A Washington Post report cited an estimate that the ERS used to see roughly one “non-retirement” departure per month – but that pace has doubled since October. NIFA reportedly has also seen people leave.
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Perdue and his staff have narrowed the list of places where the two agencies could go down to three from an original 130 -- with Kansas City, the state of Indiana and North Carolina’s research triangle in the Raleigh-Durham area on the shortlist. St. Louis, Mo., and Madison, Wis., are two alternate locations.
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Moving out of DC may be the right move in the long run, but there will be short term costs.
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Easy to absorb “short term cost” to eliminate long term bleeding
Who cares?
You are correct, but only up to a point. Even after living adjustment, they can get a bigger house away from DC.
He probably actually will move them because his base has wanted that for decades and it will infuriate the swamp.
Likely some congressman’s mistress works there.
Winning!!
Great. Now on to the Dept. of Education
What is funny is that in my part of the govt, people turn down promotions to stay away from DC.
Cue the Well, Bye guy!
Good for him. Move the rest of the govt as well.
I would disagree; I know many federal DC area workers, and they all actually live in quite reasonable cost of living areas, despite working in the greater Baltimore/DC locality pay area. Some live in VA, Delaware, PA, or more rural parts of MD, so the loss of DC locality pay would be a huge offset if they had to go to farm country.
Actually quitting? Or just retiring? BFD
Probably way overstaffed by Obama anyway...
look at the USDA very very closely and SHUT DOWN ALL THE harmful and KRAP programs!
whatever’s left over can be moved to any decent American small agricultural town in the midwest
That will work too, the main point is getting them talking to themselves about it.
‘People’ are starting to point out the Pelosi & Congress are so entranced in ‘impeach Trump’ that nothing else is being ‘ruined’ for us. Kind of like having them shut down but actually having them report to ‘work’ to pick up their check etc.
We must remember that ‘they’ were going after W on a daily basis with impeachment charges and proceedings, just now turned up against PDJT...
Rs haven’t ‘paid for’ the WJC impeachement yet...
I wouldn’t be in a terrible hurry to rehire. Move the offices to rented space in maybe Kansas or Nebraska and hire locals. And no lobbyists get through the door who can’t at least drive a tractor.
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I like that plan.
Winnowing out the chaff? MAGA!
Agreed.
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