Re: The least of his concerns

HR Consultant, you mentioned a 'smorgasbord of internal contradictions' when listing Mr. O's characteristics. Where exactly were the contradictions? I must have missed them.

Re: The least of his concerns

FAA Op Supe: African and Mid-Eastern are completely different ethnicities. Obama's father was Kenyan, which is decidely not Mid-Eastern, he is not of Arab descent. Marxism is totally anti-religion, as reflected by Marx's statement that religion is the opiate of the masses, and no Marxist would be a Muslim, or vice versa. Of course, Obama is Christian and the contributors on this site that characterize Democrats as Marxists are simply silly.

Re: The least of his concerns

RE: HR Consultant's reply to op supe....VERY WELL SAID! Checkmate!

Re: Good Article but bad math

"...non-union technical jobs?"

Talk to the Washington (State) Alliance for Technology Workers, the CWA-affiliated union representing Microsoft workers.

They've got the same problem as temporary fed workers: they're hired at a fairly decent salary but on a temporary basis. So they receive no benefits and have no protections whatsoever, and becoming a permanent worker is nearly impossible. Microsoft gets qualified workers on the cheap til they want more permanent gigs, then they're outsourced to cheaper, foreign--but qualified--labor. And Big Business wins again.

I wish feds (and all working stiffs; no matter what your salary, that's what we are) would remember that unions are the only reason for a 40-hr workweek and benefits of any kind. It's not that there are no qualified American workers--just no CHEAP qualified American workers, who just happen to want to earn a decent wage and realize their own American dreams.

Re: dont forget where your benefits came from

The article doesn't mention killing off the unions as stated in your comment. The rapid demise has been the preference of the people the unions want to represent.

Rather, the point of the article is that changing the law to subject employees to having representation without an election is a provision that the big unions would like to have because they can coerce people to sign a card and everyone who does not will be subjected to harassment from the union organizers.

Unfortunately, many Democrats owe the unions their elected seats so they are willing to payback their big contributors while trying to make it sound like they are doing employees a big favor when they take away their ability to vote in a free and fair election.

Re: dont forget where your benefits came from

Sorry Fed Worker & Union Guy, collective bargaining in the federal sector didn't come about until the early 1960's with the Kennedy Executive Order. Most federal employee benefits had nothing to do with the federal employee unions and predate them, often by many years. For example, the 8-hour workday, the 40-hour workweek, annual leave, sick leave, and paid overtime have been around for federal employees since before the Spanish-American War (1898). Today's disciplinary and adverse actions process is virtually unchanged from when it was established in 1912. Workers' compensation for federal employees hurt on the job came about in the 1920s, as did the Civil Service Retirement System. Compensatory time off and other alternative work schedules were originally pioneered during the Great Depression and WWII (1930s and 1940s). Life and health insurance programs came about in the 1950s. Can you name any significant benefit program that federal unions can honestly claim credit?

Re: dont forget where your benefits came from

You could not be more missinformed. I remember when we first put the alternate work week on the tabel the union was against it and to get them to agree we had to give them 2 reserved parking spaces for their president and vice president. They cannot bargin for wages, they simply go around looking for ways to stir up trouble