Trump Moves to Make the Firing of Federal Workers Easier

[Mr Mannn]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/business/economy/trump-federal-workers.html
Trump Moves to Ease the Firing of Federal Workers
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President Trump on Friday signed a series of executive orders making it easier to fire federal government workers and rolling back the prerogatives of unions that represent them.

Andrew Bremberg, the head of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said the president was “fulfilling his promise to promote more efficient government by reforming our Civil Service rules.”

But the push also reflects conservatives’ long-running suspicion of the federal bureaucracy, one that the president’s advisers have been outspoken in channeling. Shortly after Mr. Trump took office, Stephen K. Bannon, then his chief strategist, called for “the deconstruction of the administrative state.”

Unions representing government workers were quick to denounce the actions, calling them an “assault on democracy,” in the words of the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, which represents 700,000 workers.

Experts on the Civil Service said the moves represented the next stage of an effort that Republican politicians and conservative activists had led in states like Wisconsin and Michigan throughout this decade.

“This is very clearly an administration trying to do all it can to weaken the role of public employee unions as part of a far broader strategy that in many ways has been bubbling up from the states to turn the Civil Service into at-will employment,” said Donald F. Kettl, a professor of public policy at the University of Texas at Austin, who is based in Washington. “For many people involved in this debate from administration, that is the ultimate goal.”
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Here we come DOJ, FBI, State....We call it swamp drainage. You can call it UNEMPLOYMENT. Bwa Ha Ha!

[Old n Grumpy]

All government employees should be "at will" and the unions need to go as well.

Govt employees are breaking the budget and need to be trimmed.

[thundley4]

For too long public unions have been little more than a money laundering scheme of the democrats. It's just a way to fill their campaign coffers with taxpayer dollars.

[FunkyZero]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/business/economy/trump-federal-workers.html
Trump Moves to Ease the Firing of Federal Workers
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Unions representing government workers were quick to denounce the actions, calling them an “assault on democracy,” in the words of the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, which represents 700,000 workers.

I'd be mad too... decades of strong-arming the taxpayers endless supply of cash and strapping budgets with unending liabilities.
It would suck losing that huge cash cow

[DumbAss Tanker]

From my own experience in DoD, doin in a LOT of labor cases over the years, unions aren't really that much of a problem most places, with a small number of weird exceptions.  The problem is all the statutory rights that treat the CS job as a  lifelong entitlement, and administrative judges in the MSPB and EEOC that make it even tougher than the statutes and regs say with their own overlay of additional judge-made BS rules, and the Congress that lets this whole crap go on because labor has a lot more votes to offer than management.