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2025-03-29 Home Front: Politix

White House office moves to limit union rights for federal employees

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-29 04:11|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top

#1 Rescind EO 10988 - EO by Kennedy allowing federal employee unionization

Posted by Gloluns Turkeyneck4904 2025-03-29 06:06|| 2025-03-29 06:06|| Front Page Top

#2
Do I think Federal Workers should have a Union?

NO.

They already have strict Federal Wage & Hour, work environment rules, annual COLA adjustments and retirement plans. All, far better than a majority of the private sector workers have now.

While I support the worker level efforts of fair wage and safe working conditions, that Unions were originally designed for. The leadership of too many Unions have decided to play Politics with Union funds and numbers, instead of staying focused on their union members.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-03-29 07:06|| 2025-03-29 07:06|| Front Page Top

#3 The national government is sovereign. By that definition it can not negotiate with a subset of the population on these issues. They are not equal. The unions already have their representatives whom they fund and elect to Congress. They don't get two votes.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-03-29 07:08|| 2025-03-29 07:08|| Front Page Top

#4 ...NN2N1 speaks wisdom. On top of that, public employee unions, at the local or Federal levels, long ago became nothing more than a mechanism to provide ever-growing benefits to those employees and return a not-insubstantial amount of cash to the Democratic Party.

And that is the true cause of the howls coming from the unions this morning. Calvin Coolidge - yes, that one - said "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time," when the Boston Police went on strike, and he was right. And public employee unions have no right to contribute to or endorse any politician any where, any time.

One last point - the best part of this is that if the unions protest in any way other than statements by their leaders, they will be slitting their own throats. No civilian will sympathize with them, and they'll be handing POTUS an almighty big hammer.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-03-29 08:52|| 2025-03-29 08:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Unions did so well for the USPS.

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-03-29 09:58|| 2025-03-29 09:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Franklin Roosevelt actively opposed Government Unions of any kind, just saying.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-03-29 10:07|| 2025-03-29 10:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Declare all governmental unions insurrectionists for attempting to overthrow the government via blackmail and strong arm tactics.

Posted by Silentbrick 2025-03-29 14:16|| 2025-03-29 14:16|| Front Page Top

#8 The industrial union adversarial model is problematic for public-sector workers--the result is inevitably adversarial, inescapably political, and as experience shows, often becomes a Praetorian Guard.

Posted by James the lesser 2025-03-29 18:25|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2025-03-29 18:25|| Front Page Top

#9 People have a constitutional right to free association, peaceful assembly and the right of petition. They do not have the right to strike against the sovereign elected government of the people.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-03-29 21:02|| 2025-03-29 21:02|| Front Page Top

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