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Over 300,000 U.S. federal workers eligible for unions, White House says
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | February 7, 2022 | By Nandita Bose

Posted on 02/07/2022 10:24:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday released a highly anticipated report from its labor task force that highlights low union participation in the U.S. government, and includes nearly 70 recommendations on how the government can help workers join labor unions and bargain collectively.

More than 300,000 employees in the federal government, the country's largest employer, are eligible to join a union but have not, the report said.

The government will offer unions seeking to build membership greater access to federal employees, the reports says, and push agencies such as the National Labor Relations Board and the Federal Labor Relations Authority to coordinate on worker organizing.

Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, the country's largest labor federation, comprising 57 affiliated unions and 12.5 million workers, told Reuters the U.S. labor movement will "be the eyes and ears on the ground," making sure the report gets implemented.

"I think this could be a game changer, to have the power of the federal government examining itself and how its practices can be utilized to advance worker organizing," she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brandon; democrats; unions
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Look on the horizon..

.. you can see the tip of Lee Saunder’s erection.


21 posted on 02/07/2022 10:42:25 AM PST by Celerity
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To: Fido969

THE “EMPLOYER” who gets MASSIVE Campaign Donations......


22 posted on 02/07/2022 10:46:31 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Reuters and Yahoo do the Soros teamup.


23 posted on 02/07/2022 10:49:43 AM PST by Luke21
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To: M Kehoe

JFK as Prez issued an executive order allowing fed worker unionization. LBJ later codified it into federal law.


24 posted on 02/07/2022 10:51:09 AM PST by Reily
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

None should be!


25 posted on 02/07/2022 10:52:52 AM PST by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Unionized government employees are the natural constituency of the modern Democratic Party.


26 posted on 02/07/2022 10:55:02 AM PST by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Government Unions probably are unconstitutional!

Well be tested!


27 posted on 02/07/2022 10:55:22 AM PST by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: pepsionice

Agreed. I read “...help workers join labor unions...” to mean forcing workers to join with things like confiscating union dues from paychecks.


28 posted on 02/07/2022 11:02:00 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

the political hacks take our hard-earned $$$ by force of arms (taxes)

they then hire a bunch of bureaucrats and “regulators”
(perhaps 90 percent of whom are not needed for honest, efficient government)

they then sign these multitudes up into unions

the unions then suck $$$ out of the bureaucrats’ paychecks (union dues, fees, and assessments)

the corrupt union bosses then kick back a big chunk of that $$$$ (which all was taken from us, the taxpayers) to the very political hacks who took the money from us in the first place

it is just armed robbery....using “unions” as the bagmen.

any of the rest of us, any normal citizen, would be tossed into prison for a corrupt scheme like this


29 posted on 02/07/2022 11:05:37 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As long as the woketards are all about banning things, let’s ban all government unions. Teachers Union while we’re at it.


30 posted on 02/07/2022 11:07:16 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who is John Galt?


31 posted on 02/07/2022 11:18:50 AM PST by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I was one of those who did not ever become a union member.

However, less than 10% of the people in my office were like-minded.


32 posted on 02/07/2022 11:22:54 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Gov’t workers union is news? It’s been around for decades. There are exceptions based on securty clerances, which negate membership. Most of those exempt can continue to breath happy impartial breaths of relief.


33 posted on 02/07/2022 11:22:57 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Clutch Martin

The Unions got the idea from the Italian Mafia. Boss man and the enforcers to collect from the merchants. The people? Cancel Culture.


34 posted on 02/07/2022 11:47:46 AM PST by WVNan
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To: eeriegeno

“ This is absolute lunacy? An employer promoting unionization????”

Hardly.

The Democrats are doing this (expanding the Union reach into federal employment) to enhance their own power and control. It worked very well when Trump was in office to have the behemoth federal bureaucracy thwart him at every turn. Union control of more of the employees only enhances that capability. This is locking in their control of the federal bureaucracy, making them responsive to only to the Leftist politicians - their fellow riders.

Just takes more power away from the people (the voters). Exactly what the political elite wants.


35 posted on 02/07/2022 11:58:20 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Defund Politicians )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m a federal employee (27 years now) and have never joined the union. I’m now a manager now.

Most of my staff don’t join the union either. We all figured out long ago that the union actively works against federal employees who work hard, protecting only those employees who are slackers.


36 posted on 02/07/2022 12:01:45 PM PST by olivia3boys
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There should be NO government employee unions. That is essentially pitting the taxpayer versus the unionized employee. That is not good.


37 posted on 02/07/2022 12:04:30 PM PST by elpadre (And here in NC)
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To: Paal Gulli

Labor unions are anti-free market, inherently socialistic, serve primarily to the benefit of the under-achievers, and inevitably are corrupted into a criminal organization.
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The same is true of “professional organizations”.


38 posted on 02/07/2022 1:09:26 PM PST by nagant
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To: olivia3boys

I’m now a manager now.
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In the Department of Redundancy Department?


39 posted on 02/07/2022 1:11:39 PM PST by nagant
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Our communist masters continue on a roll...

Nothing & no one stops them...

Soon, very soon, if you are a federal employee, if you don’t join a union, you can kiss any future promotions goodbye...


40 posted on 02/07/2022 1:28:13 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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