Posted on 07/13/2005 11:31:58 AM PDT by Born Conservative
WASHINGTON — The route between the Tobyhanna Army Depot and the nation’s capital is getting quite a workout.
On Tuesday, 48 union workers at Tobyhanna arrived by bus on Capitol Hill to protest forthcoming personnel reforms at the departments of Defense and Homeland Security.
Five days earlier, a group of workers from the depot came to support the state’s congressional delegation urging the Base Realignment and Closure Commission to spare Pennsylvania’s military facilities.
Tuesday’s rally brought about 500 federal workers from 16 states to protest the plan that limits the ability of workers to bargain collectively.
“They want to make us K-Mart workers,” said Keith Hill, the president of Tobyhanna’s section of the American Federation of Government Employees.
Implementation of the National Security Personnel System, covering workers at the Defense Department, is scheduled to begin in late summer or early fall, said spokeswoman Joyce Frank. Similar regulations will cover the Department of Homeland Security.
House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland criticized the new measures and said the Bush administration wants to extend them to other federal agencies — a “pay-for-performance system.”
Ms. Frank said that “extensive training will be given to supervisors and managers” whose pay will depend on how well they perform their duties.
The union accused the administration of seeking to end the Civil Service and the GS pay-scale systems, to curtail the role of unions, and to give supervisors wide latitude over personnel decisions.
Tobyhanna Army Depot has 4,300 full-time workers.
Better than sounding like a French unionist
On the dole AND beholden to Paul Kanjorski.
Where and what are the checks and balances? Favoritism is already rampant in the Civil Service...this new plan just makes it easier for the GOB system....
Mantra omission is a capital sin.
Ok...so by your logic...civil service employees should start receiving the same pay as the equivalent private market employee....fat chance that will happen.....Civil Service pay compared to the equivalent of private sector is 60-70%....civil servants take a cut in pay for security...but even that doesn't work out with the current and past BRACs...so write your congressman for higher wages for civil service employees...comparable to private sector..and then you can treat civil service employees like private sector employees...
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