Drain the Swamp:
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Relocate federal office and agencies away from DC and across the country
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Repeal Davis–Bacon’s prevailing wage laws and establishing project-labor agreement neutrality
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Remove the stranglehold of public-sector unions from the federal government with collective bargaining reform
Vukmir: YES!
Relocate federal office and agencies away from DC and across the country
I’d rather she close them: HHS, ED, EPA, HUD, Fredie/Fannie , USAID, and other useless agencies such as the the utterly stupid and corrupt Railroad Retirement Board. Pick any of the hundreds available.
Remove the stranglehold of public-sector unions from the federal government with collective bargaining reform
No, just END public sector collective bargaining and the choke-hold will stop on its own.
Hmmm, somebody didn’t do their homework.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/mar/02/scott-walker/wisconsin-gov-scott-walker-says-most-federal-emplo/
That would be you, Nort.
Apparently, you didn’t even read the article you cite.
“Instead it has meant that senators and congressional representatives with large numbers of federal employees in their districts end up fighting to have money put into bills for federal workers in their districts the same as if they were lobbying to get money for a large federal contract. Thus, instead of being done in the very open transparent process of state and local public sector bargaining it is all done at a higher level, mostly behind closed doors, but the money still is getting there, just not as equitably as it would if there were collective bargaining.”
Moten, of the American Federation of Government Employees, also stressed that federal employees do have collective bargaining rights over working conditions. And that’s an important right. It affects vacation time, work hours, safety issues — all sorts of things important to workers.
As well, under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute public-sector unions have the right to bargain for tax funded union activities:
“Official time,” as authorized by 5 U.S.C. § 7131, is paid time spent by Federal employees performing representational work for a bargaining unit in lieu of their regularly assigned work. In other words, official [union] time is treated as work time, thus is funded by the American taxpayers.
In FY2016 The OPM reported this amounted to 3,633,290 hours of union work done on the tax payers dime, to to the tune of $177,210,408.53. Both numbers represent a 10% increase over FY2014.
According to the GAO, that cost estimated by the OPM is more likely than not 10-15% below actual due the the methodology (average salary) the OPM uses. For example, the OPM estimated the SSA union activity salary cost at $11,678,051 yet the SSA itself reported $13,700,000.
And that is just tax-payer funded union activity wages.
The SSA also reported $700,000 for union travel and per diem, $1,400,000 for union office space/eqp/supplies, and $100,000 for arbitration expenses.
Total cost for the taxpayer for SSA union work: $159,000,000.00
And that’s just one federal agency.
Time to ban Le Roi du Nord.
“Under Barack Obama, he presides over a federal government where most federal employees do not have collective bargaining for benefits, nor for pay”.
So let’s get rid of something, that for the most part, doesn’t exist. Good plan.