Re: Not Exactly

would that be the same FLRA that has no authority due to how the Bush Administration has stripped it to beyond recognition?

Re: Not Exactly

The only reason the FLRA has no current authority to act is that two of its Board members and the General Counsel resigned and the Senate has not yet confirmed the new nominations. The Statute allows the Authority to exercise their full powers as long as there are at least two Board members. However, they cannot operate with less than two members under the Statute. The present state of the Authority's powers are not teh fault of President Bush. If the Senate would do their job and confirm the nominations the FRLA would be back in business in no time.

Re: Not Exactly

Perhaps, if George Bush would nominate people who would do their jobs according to the law instead of their political philosophy, then the NLRB would have a quorum.

Re: LAbor Unions

You sound like a good Bush Republican radical conservative. You talk about the private sector, without talking about the lousy pay, part time jobs in abundance under Walmart conditions with little or no benefits(ever notice the cost of medical insurance).
I do not know where you get the idea that unions encourage people to goof off, but that is not true in the IRS. Perhaps, you are in management. You deserve what you get.

Re: NATC crying in their beer

Once PATCO went on strike, and walked out the President was left with one choice--fire them.

Re: NATC crying in their beer

Oh please, enough with the "they broke the law and got what they deserved". The "law" wasn't enough to restrain the Reagan during the Iran-Contra affair.

"Law" is whatever the people in power decide it is, and only applies to those without the power to change it. PATCO engaged in power politics and lost, nothing more, nothing less.

Moral righteousness is no match for the man determined to seize power.

Re: NATC crying in their beer

WOW Government Worker, if your premise is supportable explain the once powerful public officials and lobbyist that are "doing time". Contrary to your position we are a nation of laws. Had PATCO merely engaged in "power politics" they would have retired as ATCs.

When the ban on rehiring them (ATCs) was lifted many came back as WG 2s and 3s or any thing else they could get. They were considerably more; let us say humble. Strike was not in their vocabulary.

Re: NATC crying in their beer

PATCO members didn't retire as ATC's because they engaged in power politics *and lost*. Once powerful public officials and lobbyist are "doing time" because they were not powerful enough to control the laws they were convicted under.

I agree, we are a nation of laws. It used to be the the law in the U.S. that slaves could not sue in court, and that slaves could not be taken away from their owners without due process. The law didn't change because of successful lobbying by slaves.

As a former striker myself, I'm in a special salary category that pays me more than a member of Congress. Not all of us returned to the government on bended knee.

Re: Walks like and talk like it is a duck

I think the 40-hour workweek was designed in the Great Depression as a way to create more jobs since the nation had an unemployment rate of around 20-percent or so.