Posted on 12/26/2024 12:01:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for a return-to-office mandate for federal workers will face stiff resistance and union contracts that guarantee remote work.
President-elect Donald Trump warned federal employees last week that they must return to the office — or else “they’re going to be dismissed.”
The threat was the latest and loudest signal yet that Trump, his allies and Republicans in Congress are committed to ending a remote-work culture that became widespread for the civil service of 2.3 million during the coronavirus pandemic but that many conservatives now decry as an outdated taxpayer-funded perk that has hurt performance across the government.
A quick return to pre-pandemic — or even stricter — federal office policies is not likely to happen with the stroke of a presidential pen.
Trump’s expected return-to-office mandate faces furious resistance from federal employees, many of whom are covered by union agreements that guarantee work-from-home policies — including some contracts extended in recent weeks by outgoing Biden officials eager to blunt Trump’s impact on the workforce.
About 56 percent of the civil service is covered by collective bargaining contracts, many of which include provisions for telework, according to federal data and union officials. A record 10 percent of federal jobs now are designated as fully “remote,” with the official workplace an employee’s home or rented space far from an agency headquarters or regional office. The General Services Administration, which manages federal buildings, has also moved aggressively in recent years to shed costly excess office space as Biden officials kept pandemic policies in place.
“It’s in a lot of labor contracts,” Cathie McQuiston, deputy general counsel at the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union representing federal workers, said of the telework arrangements. “And at a lot of these agencies, the reality is, they don’t have the place to...”
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Bust the union. There should not be such for public employees. Get your do-nothing butts back into the office.
It should be rather simple... Get your *ss back to work or you’re fired. That should do the trick.
I don’t see this being a problem, personally. Cut loose those who don’t want to go to the office.
For citizens it will generally be worse if these people get back to the office where they will be more efficient in their oppression. The best thing would be if they get fired.
Start taxing their home, phone and internet as a business...
Funny. I’m thinking it won’t be hard at all. Unless Congress gets in his way.
You will go back to the office. You will be working in big, beautiful office buildings, like never before in history! Previous buildings? Horrible, that I can tell you!
I agree with you totally ...
You’re fired!
Does Trump really care about return-to-office?
Or is drastically reducing the headcount the true goal?
Even that Commie FDR opposed public sector unions.
covid broke the US is many, many ways.
It may be a small task?
Getting federal workers to work?
Really?
Duh
Just another version of self-deportation; self-termination.
Bingo.
We nat not know the all the damage done by covid for decades.
A few old-timers like me still straggle into the office but we are in the minority. Most younger people prefer to work at home in their pajama bottoms. It's just the way it is.
The week between Christmas and New Year's used to be a slack time at the office. Most were on vacation but those who did come in wore Santa hats, homemade pies and cookies were in the employee's cafeteria and egg nog as well as other intoxicating beverages flowed freely. It was a week where everybody could take it down a notch and prepare for the frenetic pace of the coming New Year.
We are never going to have that culture back again.
The upcoming globalist-engineered famine will remedy that.
Not really, come back or you are gone.
Simple enough.
That worked for the Air Traffic Controllers. It should work fine here.
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