Even government employees are faced with tryanical bosses who abuse them. The Unions in the federal workforce don't really have any say in wage increases, that is voted on by Congress. They had no say in retirement benefits again that was done by congress. Anything the federal employee has from holiday to health insurance to retirement is set by Congress and you had better believe that the biggest beneficaries of that are the people in Congress themselves.
How do I know? I was a federal employee. I cause to need union representation against a supervisor and the only thing that they could do was attend the hearing with me and act as an advocate.
Federal employees are not allowed to strike nor demand higher wages or better benefits.
I too am a current federal employee and I quit the AFGE union in the mid 90s (it is voluntary.) I am glad that the feds CANNOT go on strike. Imagine what would happen if FBI agents or Border Patrol officers or postal workers went on strike. America's security and infrastructure would be crippled.
That is why President Ronald Reagan correctly fired the striking federal air traffic controllers in 1981. The PATCO traffic controllers were paralyzing air trasportation throughout America.
People who sign up to work as government employees need to remember that their civil service is to the public for the benefit and good of society at large. When I was appointed to my position in the federal government I took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution and to protect America from enemies foreign and domestic. I did NOT take any oath giving my allegiance to a socialist brotherhood/group which does not have the interests of our nation's security and viability at heart.
To put it plainly, if you seek a job where there is minimal expectations and accountability of the workers, look for your job through the Teamsters. Government workers already have low expectations and have very little regard by the public as a whole. The last thing we need to do is to give them the indolence and arrogance of Teamster unionists (although workers at the DMV and the IRS already have this bad attitude!)
True, but they can lobby the government to setup HR rules that prevent you from being fired even if you are totally incompetant.