Posted on 11/14/2014 5:09:18 PM PST by mdittmar
The incoming chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has been outspoken about his plans to cut federal employees’ pay and pensions. Besides his previous proposal, Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin spoke with the Washington Post this week and discussed what he wants to do when he takes over the committee in January. On his chopping block are federal employees’ pay, health insurance, pensions, and the right to join a union.
“I think it’s unrealistic for public-service employees to believe they are immune from modifications to their pay and benefit packages,” said Sen. Johnson, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He went on to say “those things in the private sector have been modified dramatically.”
It’s important to note that a pension is delayed payment for work already done, a condition for taking a job. It’s the employee’s money withheld and invested by the employer to be paid at the employee’s retirement when he/she can no longer work. If the employer cuts the employee’s pension, that means the employer has either embezzled or misspent the employee’s money. The employer is engaging in theft. The same is true for health care.
Obviously inspired by Walmart, Johnson also takes aim at federal employees’ worker protections and the freedom of association. He told the Post, “I really don’t think that the public-sector employees should be unionized.” So the senator wants federal employees to take whatever compensation their employer offers, most likely with ever changing work schedules, no guaranteed overtime pay, and little or no medical care and pension. He appears to oppose the idea of fairness, justice, equality, opportunity, and prosperity. Without a union, employees are basically slaves to their employer.
Meanwhile, Johnson supports massive tax giveaways for corporations and blocked a bill that would end tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas. But he voted against a bill that would end the government shutdown, blocked a bill that would help veterans find good jobs and get the health care they need, voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, voted against a bill that would provide employment protections to gay and transgender workers, and voted to repeal the healthcare law that provides coverage to the uninsured and those with pre-existing conditions.
Well,we are their employer.
And as to being a slave to my non-union employer,I get 7 weeks paid vacation,full health benefits,Profit sharing,401k.
I agree with the incoming chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
“I really don’t think that the public-sector employees should be unionized.”
Actually, I’d like to see the “Incoming Senate Panel Chairman” lay off a significant percentage of the members of The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE).
I’ve got a feeling the union thugs will be going through a lot of Huggies over the next two years. That’s not a bad thing for the American taxpayers.
AFGE has blocked pension reform. Many of our state pension plans are underfunded... there is no money to pay future retirees. And I guess its against federal reform, too.
But why worry? Vest now, pay later.
Note that what he says, and what they say he says, are two completely different things.
He says:
“I think it’s unrealistic for public-service employees to believe they are immune from modifications to their pay and benefit packages,” said Sen. Johnson, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He went on to say “those things in the private sector have been modified dramatically.”
They claim:
“So the senator wants federal employees to take whatever compensation their employer offers, most likely with ever changing work schedules, no guaranteed overtime pay, and little or no medical care and pension. He appears to oppose the idea of fairness, justice, equality, opportunity, and prosperity. Without a union, employees are basically slaves to their employer.”
employees to take whatever compensation their employer offers, most likely with ever changing work schedules, no guaranteed overtime pay, and little or no medical care and pension. He appears to oppose the idea of fairness, justice, equality, opportunity, and prosperity. Without a union, employees are basically slaves to their employer.
Welcome to the REAL WORLD
I worked for the government for a dozen years. Our benefits were tremendous, way better than anything from my jobs in private industry.
5 weeks vacation to start, 9% contribution by employer to my 401-k, life time healthcare insurance after 10 years service at age 55, unlimited sick leave, free physicals every year, unused vacation days accumulation up to 2 months, 90% subsidized healthcare insurance, etc.
Boo-hoo. These accomplices of the regulatory oppressors currently in charge are carbuncles on the backside of the nation. Grossly overpaid with many federal holidays and pensions private sectors workers will never see, half of them should be fired as this bloated government is drastically downsized.
Well ain’t that the pot calling the kettle black. Congress can and has voted their own pay raises and perks and are exempt from what the commoners have to live by.
Walmart,tax giveaways for corporations,fairness, justice, equality, opportunity, and prosperity,slaves,government shutdown,veterans,Violence Against Women,gay and transgender workers,healthcare law.
I like this guy already. About time federal employees feel the heat like everyone else.
Great!
I agree also. About time.
I wonder if Mr. Johnson worked behind the
Scenes along with other in Congress for exemption for him and his staff from NeroCare?
Without a union, employees are basically slaves to their employer.
And WITH a union the taxpayers are slaves to the govt employees. I’m proud to call Johnson my senator.
What other entity loses its azz every year and doesn’t cut staff, pay and benefits?
A: None
End the gravy train. Let them “Work” someplace else
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
What...?
Boo hoo for the many self-effacing, unproductive, slacking government employee degenerates...BOO HOO.
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