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Federal Employee Union Is Blocking Republican VA Reforms

2017-01-08

[Daily Caller] President-elect Donald Trump promised to fire incompetent and dishonest Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employees, but he will have to fight the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) -- the largest federal worker union -- every step of the way.

During the 115th Congress, Trump -- along with Republican majorities in both the Senate and House of Representatives -- can enact sweeping reforms to improve every department and agency in the federal workplace.

Republicans controlled the 114th Congress, too, but outgoing Democratic President Barack Obama routinely threatened to veto GOP proposals.

Trump and AFGE already share some history. When the GOP presidential candidate proposed expanding a VA program that lets veterans get private medical care, AFGE quickly blasted the idea.

Posted by:Besoeker

#6 Prudhoe Bay needs a New Igloo built VA center staffed by these folks.

Posted by: 3dc 2017-01-08 12:07

#5 Use that rule to make their pay $1 and use the money saved for vouchers at private hospitals.

Posted by: DarthVader 2017-01-08 09:45

#4 Sadly if he did sweep away the federal unions I'm sure Congress would act quickly to make it actual law on both sides - overriding any veto. I'm sure Mitch and Ryan would jump right in.
They do love eating that union dogcrap.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-01-08 09:15

#3 Ditto P2k.

Reagan showed how to do it. Haven't seen a rash of planes falling out of the sky so I doubt that dumping these pencil pushers will have any significant downside.

Posted by: AlanC 2017-01-08 08:38

#2 I agree with Procopius. OR transfer VA people who get in the way to the same VA hospital and fill the place with all the ones of a kind. Then set standards of care in a ranking order and watch them FAIL. Publicize the failures. Or find some transfer place where the person winds up in a dead end career move. Same thing. Garbage dump them. just fill the place up even if there is no work at all to do. Just BEING THERE should be enough to end a career.
Don't care how crowded it gets with people who can't cut it. Let them have stacked offices in the halls. ( no patients, of course ). Let them just look at one another all day.
The Vets can get treatment , just not a that facility. Make sure the Union isn't changed, just smeared all over itself. Make it very obvious. See how long they can smell each other.

Posted by: Choque tse Tung9347 2017-01-08 08:31

#1 Just repeal the Executive order on union standing in the federal government. There can be no 'equal' standing between a sovereign government and a union.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-01-08 07:09

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