Posted on 08/26/2018 3:59:15 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON – In a landmark decision, a federal judge has ruled that President Trump violated the U.S. Constitution and laws providing checks and balances in the federal government by attempting to deny more than 2 million federal workers their legal right to representation.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled late friday that the Trump administration’s May 25 executive order on official time violated the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the separation of powers as established in law.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which was the first union to challenge President Trump’s executive orders in court, applauded the judge’s ruling.
“President Trump’s illegal action was a direct assault on the legal rights and protections that Congress specifically guaranteed to the public-sector employees across this country who keep our federal government running every single day,” AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. said.
(Excerpt) Read more at afge.org ...
Yep, much to be said for that.
“I know you are a GS-12 but we do need a janitor in Fargo ND.”
Yup. "Other duties, as assigned..."
The difficulty firing federal employees undermines the Republic.
Unions have no business in government and are not in the Constitution.
This brings up a point as to why we should allow such a thing as a public employees union. In my mind there’s something very wrong about a union for folks that are paid from taxpayer funds when the taxpayer has no say in a dispute.
In a little-known letter he wrote to the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees in 1937, Roosevelt reasoned:
"... Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the government. All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations ... The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for ... officials ... to bind the employer ... The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives ...
"Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees. Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people ... This obligation is paramount ... A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent ... to prevent or obstruct ... Government ... Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government ... is unthinkable and intolerable."
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Nothing that is going on is in the constitution.
And their unions get to lobby those that control their pay too.
The Democrats have had super delegates.
Are federal bureaucrats super citizens?
Years ago the federal government ended up owning and operating a whore house ... which ended up having to be closed because under federal management it was losing money.
One question that was never answered that I know of: what’s the GS level for a hooker? For a madame or pimp?
Sometimes draining the swamp gets clogged up, and Leftist judges don’t help matters.
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