Posted on 05/23/2019 3:00:27 PM PDT by RightGeek
Employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are quitting at a rapid clip as Secretary Sonny Perdue prepares to move forward with plans to relocate two offices far outside the Washington, D.C., Beltway.
Federal employees at the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) – two small but important agencies within the USDA – are unhappy with Perdue’s plan, announced last August, to move the majority of their staff from current offices in the capital to an area closer the country’s agricultural centers.
“This move does not serve a public purpose,” Peter Winch, a representative for the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents ERS workers, told Fox News. “Employees don’t want to move, and it doesn’t make sense for them to move.”
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Winch added that since ERS employees joined AFGE earlier this month, six employees have already quit their jobs with the government agency in response to the planned move. He said overall staffing is down to 209 from 300 during the Obama administration.
A Washington Post report cited an estimate that the ERS used to see roughly one “non-retirement” departure per month – but that pace has doubled since October. NIFA reportedly has also seen people leave.
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Perdue and his staff have narrowed the list of places where the two agencies could go down to three from an original 130 -- with Kansas City, the state of Indiana and North Carolina’s research triangle in the Raleigh-Durham area on the shortlist. St. Louis, Mo., and Madison, Wis., are two alternate locations.
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LEt prospective cities and states submit bids for relocation just like sports teams and Amazon Centers do
Winning!
Ping!
What a terrible idea. Everyone knows it would tip over.
I like the way you think.
“en masse” my a$$.
SIX left! It is a stampede. OMG!
Well. Bye!
Disperse the State Department. It doesn’t need to be all in one place, and much of it doesn’t need to be in CONUS.
LOL
GOOD!
And American Samoa.
And a fortified hurricane shelter in the Virgin Islands.
Adak was shut down, reopen it.
Make them all move to locations where Muslims have been deposited.
That way the Republicans/Conservatives in those local areas can actively monitor those numbnuts AND they get the opportunity to experience life with the Muslims they drop kicked onto the Red areas.
Methinks this is by design to downsize “non-essential” Federal payroll. As far as I’m concerned, 90 per cent of Federal payroll is non-essential and would take a chain saw to every department and agency, and eventually eliminate most of them.
Fantastic move. 1) Reduce the swamp through resignations, and 2) move the swamp out of DC, reducing the electoral clout of NOVA.
“Winning!”
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My exact instantaneous reaction. Let’s see...novel thought that USDA employees in D.C.(who probably think carrots grow on trees) be located where real farmers grow stuff the rest of us eat.
Yea!! Reduce the size of government. De-centralize the government. Breakup the choke hold WDC has on the nation. Move more agencies to small towns and cities.
Six employees out of thousands on the payroll is hardly what I would refer to as “in masse”.
He said overall staffing is down to 209 from 300 during the Obama administration.And nobody noticed.
They're lucky that Trump, not Obama is President though. With Trump there are more jobs available...With Obama? Not so much.
Move EVERY government office out of DC! I think North Dakota would be a good spot for most of them.............
Hey!
Watch it there. We don’t want the scum. Got enough with the last oil boom but removing/ disbursing the offices is a great idea. If the imbeds quit, all the better.
Nine resignations? Nine resignations are considered an en masse action?
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