Posted on 05/26/2018 4:31:45 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON – President Trump is attempting to silence the voice of veterans, law enforcement officers, and other frontline federal workers through a series of executive orders intended to strip federal employees of their decades-old right to representation at the worksite, the American Federation of Government Employees said today.
“This is more than union busting – it’s democracy busting,” AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. said. “These executive orders are a direct assault on the legal rights and protections that Congress has specifically guaranteed to the 2 million public-sector employees across the country who work for the federal government.”
“Our government is built on a system of checks and balances to prevent any one person from having too much influence. President Trump’s executive orders will undo all of that. This administration seems hellbent on replacing a civil service that works for all taxpayers with a political service that serves at its whim.”
“Federal employees swear an oath to serve this country. The American people rightly expect that federal employees go to work every day and do the jobs they were hired to do – whether it’s ensuring our food is safe to eat, caring for veterans who were injured while serving their country, preventing illegal weapons and drugs from crossing our borders, or helping communities recover from hurricanes and other disasters.”
“President Trump’s executive orders do nothing to help federal workers do their jobs better. In fact, they do the opposite by depriving workers of their rights to address and resolve workplace issues such as sexual harassment, racial discrimination, retaliation against whistleblowers, improving workplace health and safety, enforcing reasonable accommodations for workers with disabilities, and so much more.”
“These executive orders strip agencies of their right to bargain terms and conditions of employment and replace it with a politically charged scheme to fire employees without due process,” Cox said.
AFGE representatives have used official time in myriad ways that benefit taxpayers, including to:
“All federal employees, whether they belong to a union or not, are guaranteed the right to fair representation. Employees who volunteer to serve as union representatives use official time to carry out those representational activities,” Cox said.
“It’s a policy that has saved taxpayers in the long run because it helps resolve isolated conflicts that arise in the workplace before they become costly, agency-wide problems. And contrary to some reports, official time is never used to conduct union-specific business, solicit members, hold internal union meetings, elect union officers, or engage in partisan political activities.”
“By preventing problem solving, these executive orders will create inefficiencies and hinder the ability of dedicated federal employees to effectively deliver services to the American public.”
Unions are All Crooked.
Obama signed 277 EOs.
Thankfully we’re a republic!
Bwahahahaha
But obozo’s were golden
The lazy, corrupt union bums are upset? Boohoo! The federal unions were created by executive order...and can be eliminated by executive order. They should shut up or they just might be surprised.
Good...because we are NOT a democracy, we are a REPUBLIC.
Yeah, well, when rights are given to you by people, they can be taken away from you by other people.
Learn.
Gotta love the phrasing - Veterans, Law Enforcement and... “others”.
He also didn’t stop representation - that’s an outright lie.
Collective bargaining in the public sector must be outlawed. The taxpayer is NOT represented.
Mr. Cox, you have zero credibility to at least 60 million producing Americans. The Federal Government has at least one million too many employees that it cannot afford and a large number of them need to be fired so that they can go to work and produce some taxes instead of consuming taxes.
That’s called “an elephant in your living room” I believe.
I had the same reaction. LOL!
Union thugs again. If there is a threat to democracy in America, it’s the damn unions.
Threat to corruptocracy.
When unions are mad...it means President Trump did an awesome thing. Thank you Mr. President.
and F UNIONS. I read somewhere that he’s looking into taking out the mandatory union dues before his term is up, please make it so and unions die a quick death
We are a Republic, not a democracy
IIRC, the SEIU only exists because of an Executive Order from JFK allowing unionization within the government.
Up until that time it had been forbidden. Pro-labor FDR said that unionization of government workers was inconceivable.
Unions and democracy? These people are truly insane.
Change the Constitution if you do not like Trump’s Ex. Orders. Or, you can seek an injunction or file a legal challenge.
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