The Environmental Protection Agency announced a new collective bargaining agreement last week that has outraged the main labor union representing EPA employees.
According to the president of the union—the American Federation of Government Employees—the EPA is “trampling on federal employees’ rights and ignoring the law” with the new agreement.
So what are the draconian provisions that have the union so exercised?
Well, perhaps the biggest change is that EPA employees will have an automatic right to work from home only one day a week instead of two. But the reason the union is up in arms has less to do with working conditions and more to do with losing its own taxpayer-financed perks.
Unlike private-sector unions, which have to charge their members (including some forced members) full price in order to finance themselves, federal employee unions are in large part financed by taxpayers who pay for all sorts of things, such as union office space within government buildings.
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Unions, private or gov't, are only out for themselves. I was in one for 38 yrs. Watched it go from fighting for the membership, to compromising, sacrificing, and politicing, everything for their own good. And anyone who has worked in one or a member of one knows I'm right. Unless your a useful idiot, or out for yourself.
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ReplyDeleteFor those that have not worked and saved and at least invested a million in their future and think their Social Security and Medicare is going to carry them have the same fantasies as Mexicans.
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ReplyDeleteUnions do not represent all Federal workers. Due to your position. Unions in the Federal Government is a joke.
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