Posted on 05/25/2018 1:39:19 PM PDT by deplorableindc
President Trump signed three executive orders Friday containing sweeping reforms that weaken protections for federal workers and eliminate perks for the unions that represent them.
Under the new executive orders, unions will be charged rent for federal office space and will not be reimbursed for travel expenses or for hours spent appealing worker firings.
All federal workers will be ordered to spend 75 percent of their time on government work, and agencies are ordered to publicly post union contracts in an online repository.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I was surprised by the extent and benefits in the contracts that the different agencies and government organizations have. Both at state and national levels.
Some enterprising young journalist might want to look into exactly what the contracts say for the different bureaucracies.
Now this is winning! Federal unions must be broken up. At the very least, they must be changed to a right-to-work status and not be compulsory.
JoMa
They were union officials song union business.
They think all gubermint workers spend less than that doing gubermint work while on the gubermint nickle?
Hehehe, I know, I'm being sarcastic.
But seriously, when I go to work at the military base I work at, it's never with the intention of doing government work 75% of the time! I go to work to work, PERIOD!
When “working on a case”, many “union officials/reps” would spend all their time playing games instead of doing the work they were paid for - this merely limits the amount of time they can dedicate...many bases have seen the unions dry up and this will help the process...
.....You forgot one
* Played Little Rocket Boy.
;-)
It sounds like up to 25% of the time can be used for union duties, but now the union will have to pay rent (out of union dues?) and also travel expenses will not be reimbursed (again out of union dues?)
If so, they won’t have much left over to donate to political campaigns.
I was aware of that. They should not spend any time on the clock doing union business. Absolutely none!
Logging into “union time” and doing nothing for days on end.
Well, this will push the DC bureaucracy from voting 99.2% Dem up to at least 99.3%.
“All federal workers will be ordered to spend 75 percent of their time on government work”
What the heck?
I think Trump is setting up a trap for the media. When the MSM has their inevitable meltdown he is hoping that the average non-union working joe to react just like you did.
I thought that was the actually the ass end of the Earth spewing out the sulfur of DC as Trump is draining the swamp.
“Republican’s own the House & Senate and can pass the aforementioned legislation without a single Democrat vote. They oughtta do it! ”
Except the majority of “Republicans“ aren’t conservative.
They voted to repeal Obamacare how many times when they knew it would never happen? And under Trump, they suddenly aren’t interested.
“Yes, but we need real congressional legislation to solidify this beyond a single presidency. Much swamp drainage required to get this passed into law.”
Take heart. PDJT is at least hobbling The Bad Guys for now. SO refreshing to see some slashing and burning, even IF temporary.
He’ll have two terms. He’ll get a LOT more done. ;)
Not sure I understand the standard of ‘working 75% of their time on Government work.
IF they are GOVERNMENT employees-—isn’t their job entirely GOVERNMENT WORK?
I have worked in alot of places in the past 61 years, and I don’t remember having 25% of my paid time to do as I pleased.
From Accounting/bookkeeping to selling auto parts to working in a machine shop polishing cylinder heads for performance enhanced applications to working at a tire shop busting tires, I WORKED.
We could cut half of the federal budget out and the place would run better.
More winning.
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......Right to Know (hazardous materials) training, sexual harassment training, Fire Safety training, Workplace Violence training, Incident Response (Active Shooter) training, Cyber Security training, Internal Controls training, and so on.
Likewise for me (State engineer), these are all required annually by law and none of them count as continuing education credit for an engineering license.
I rarely go in the field, back when I did there were annual hearing checkups and a bunch more training.
They have made most of them into interactive web modules, so you can do them when your not very busy. Between training and continuing ed I need to complete about 21-22 webinars per year.
I’ll admit, sometimes I just let webinars run with the volume muted and go about my regular work.
Union reps are allowed by law to conduct business that “maintains the contract” while at work.
An example of “maintaining the contract” would be an employee is called into the boss’ office to be issued a letter of reprimand and go over work expectations. The employee would have a union representative present and that rep could be a coworker who was at work and on the clock.
An example of “not maintaining the contract” would be 5 union reps need to get together and talk about an upcoming union meeting and the discussion is going to last more than 2 or 3 minutes.
That would and should be done on union time not “company” time.
This new rule by Trump admin could be a response to a union bargaining unit having not enough representatives so as to keep a worker who is also a union rep from spending all or most of his work hours conducting union rep duties.
The union should have enough reps so this doesn’t happen. The company (govt in this case) can also be the cause of that situation if they have a bunch of stupid bosses doing stupid stuff to employees.....I have seen both.
It’s better than nothing, which was common. We taxpayers were paying for union activists to be doing their union things as employees with presumably a real role and title.
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