Posted on 05/10/2022 6:14:45 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The House on Tuesday approved a resolution that allows staffers in the lower chamber to unionize.
The resolution, which passed along party lines in a 217-202 vote, officially gives House staffers the legal protection to unionize and take part in collective bargaining. Three Democrats and seven Republicans did not vote.Rather than as a standalone measure, the resolution passed as part of a rule that also pertained to a number of other measures.
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The “rat ‘critters are not already in a virtual Union?
Public sector unions are a parasite on the public interest.
I don’t think it’s wise to allow the unions to infect the
halls of our government.
These will all be Leftists, and they will screw with anything
wholesome for our nation.
Do away with the page system and go to unpaid volunteers that
have been vetted, akin to an FBI clearance, only not a
Leftist vent clearance.
I thought that your employer could not stop you from trying to form a union.
Does this mean they can never be fired?
Unions are the bastard of communism imho.
Wonder what happens when Republicans staffers out number liberal ones and they can’t fire them lol
Never understood the motivation for a union. The way I see it, if you are competent and a hard worker, a union is going to hold you back and force you to be rewarded as an average worker. On the other hand, if you’re a crap worker who just wants to slide by, unions would make sense for you. This kinda tells me what gov’t workers think of themselves as productive citizens. I guess I’m not surprised.
I hope they strike early and often.
Government unions should be prohibited. It is government workers negotiating with themselves. The taxpayer loses.
Horrific. Public unions have already destroyed education, tjey invent ways to tax and fee while sleeping. Total doom and no advantage to being a US citizen at all.
Doesn’t matter what the “polls” seem to say, communists NEVER lose sight of their goals...
The GOP, on the other hand, continues to masturbate and form circular firing squads...
No at most places you have to opt in to join a fed union and come under collective bargaining. Same pay scale as regular gs but you have some protection as regards being harder than it normally is to get rid of someone. In my case it would have cost around $1,400 in yearly dues for not much return that i could see. A coworker mgr wanted to get rid of someone who was useless and it took several months and a ton of work while he was protected by his union. The guy thought his job duties changed as a result of a large reorg at department level and his old duties needed to be updated to add on a new task which was essentially ruber stamping some form and update a record in a database. He refused to do the new task. His last full three months were spent literally sitting in the cafeteria for 8 hrs a day because he didn’t want to learn anything about the new task and the union protected him the whole time until my coworker was able to finally get him escorted out of the building and had security take his govID. This was all on top of about 18 months of bs and two previous mgrs where he was offered training on the new task and kept refusing and was shuffled around the dept in hopes of finding some job he could do. His luck ran out as my coworker wasn’t going to put up with that noise. I dont think he even actually got fired, he was just banned from the office and the senior union types and senior gov types continued to argue over him but at least he wasn’t my coworker’s problem any longer.
Basically there shouldn’t be permanent staffer. Each representative should bring their own staff from home. They can return home when their representatives leave.
Government unions.
Let me guess: they “work” from home, too.
During the 1990s, I put in a lot of part time hours at a major downtown postal center that was a short walk from my apartment.
The pay was excellent in those days - around $22 an hour when adjusted for inflation, and unlimited overtime if you did not have another job to go to (but just 6 months of work eligibility for non-union workers per year).
I never saw any union member get fired in my roughly 10 years working there.
Because I am a nice guy and always well mannered and stoical on the job, I was always instantly assigned to work with the most unpleasant and weirdest union employees in the building.
I should have written book about my experiences. It would have made a great TV sitcom.
I worked at the PO with lots of people like the one you describe, one guy’s nickname was Sh*t head.
Even the unions stewards called him that.
One steward blew up at him for filing continual time wasting petty grievances and yelled at him in the monthly union meeting “Why don’t you just do your ***king job!?”
Sh*t Head got in a customer service job, in a business mail entry unit where he delighted in screwing with business people, because he was a “socialist”.
He considered himself a genius because he was a chess grandmaster.
He was one of the vilest human beings I ever met.
ALL government employee unions must be destroyed.
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