President Trump executive orders are threat to democracy, union says
5/25/2018 WASHINGTON – President Trump is attempting to silence the voice of veterans, law enforcement officers, and other frontline federal workers through a series of executive orders intended to strip federal employees of their decades-old right to representation at the worksite, the American Federation of Government Employees said today.
“This is more than union busting – it’s democracy busting,” AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. said. “These executive orders are a direct assault on the legal rights and protections that Congress has specifically guaranteed to the 2 million public-sector employees across the country who work for the federal government.”
“Our government is built on a system of checks and balances to prevent any one person from having too much influence. President Trump’s executive orders will undo all of that. This administration seems hellbent on replacing a civil service that works for all taxpayers with a political service that serves at its whim.”
“Federal employees swear an oath to serve this country. The American people rightly expect that federal employees go to work every day and do the jobs they were hired to do – whether it’s ensuring our food is safe to eat, caring for veterans who were injured while serving their country, preventing illegal weapons and drugs from crossing our borders, or helping communities recover from hurricanes and other disasters.”
“President Trump’s executive orders do nothing to help federal workers do their jobs better. In fact, they do the opposite by depriving workers of their rights to address and resolve workplace issues such as sexual harassment, racial discrimination, retaliation against whistleblowers, improving workplace health and safety, enforcing reasonable accommodations for workers with disabilities, and so much more.”
“These executive orders strip agencies of their right to bargain terms and conditions of employment and replace it with a politically charged scheme to fire employees without due process,” Cox said.
AFGE representatives have used official time in myriad ways that benefit taxpayers, including to:
- Blow the whistle on management’s attempt to cover up an outbreak of Legionnaires disease that killed and sickened veterans in Pittsburgh;
- Address an incident in which a noose was placed on the chair of an African-American worker at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia;
- Mitigate the impact of Army downsizing on employees and their families;
- Expedite the processing of benefits to veterans and their survivors; and
- Successfully negotiate equipping federal correctional officers with pepper spray to keep them safe on the job.
“All federal employees, whether they belong to a union or not, are guaranteed the right to fair representation. Employees who volunteer to serve as union representatives use official time to carry out those representational activities,” Cox said.
“It’s a policy that has saved taxpayers in the long run because it helps resolve isolated conflicts that arise in the workplace before they become costly, agency-wide problems. And contrary to some reports, official time is never used to conduct union-specific business, solicit members, hold internal union meetings, elect union officers, or engage in partisan political activities.”
“By preventing problem solving, these executive orders will create inefficiencies and hinder the ability of dedicated federal employees to effectively deliver services to the American public.”
Source: AFGE | President Trump executive orders are threat to democracy, union says
Trump is an absolute idiot. Anyone who voted for this clown needs to have their head examined, I can’t stand this guy and I wish Hillary was President
so they complain about the first real audit of the post office in 50 years…..Fortune 500 Companies have an audit every year. will be very interesting to find out what the “outside audit” will find, very interesting indeed.
the reason they drive Honda, Nissan, & Toyota, and I have asked people about this, is that they are better made cars.(according to them) when I tell them that for the same reason I use UPS, FDX, or AMZN, as they are better companies (as reflected in stock price) their heads start to spin. postal workers are very selfish, self centered people who think their s@@t don’t stink. going to change come August 10, 2018!
I like that observation of the po dummies complaining about how they should have a job for life even when the place is losing $BILLIONS, while they drive away in the Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai, or Kia-while flipping the bird to the Union American Auto Workers………..hope it goes under so that smile is wiped off your face.
Trump made Billions while the Post Office is losing Billions. I laugh that the workers are trying to protect the po mismanagement bureaucrats who ran the place into the dirt and think they will save their crummy little paper route. “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish”-Euripides. they are not going to lead you to the promised land. I can not wait to see what the Treasury, Government Accounting Office, and the Office of Personnel Management find? D-Day is August 20. 2018. Post Office has not had an outside audit in over 50 years. bring it on man, bring it all down man. we need new management-period! if this were a private sector Fortune 500 company it would be in the dust bin with Enron and Pan American Airways!
This does not effect postal workers.
USPS in not funded by tax payers. In theory anyway …
https://m.govexec.com/management/2018/05/largest-federal-employee-union-sues-block-official-time-executive-order/148620/?oref=govexec_breaking_alert
Step down now before you get forced out…
for 32 years the A-PEE-U took my money and never represented me “they can do that” is their battle cry(as they sleep 40 hours in the union office as a payoff). always hand in glove with po mismanaging bureaucrats and 1% yearly raise……….google it and you will see “company union” pop up. President Trump get rid of the bloated mismanagement and company unions……my UPS $116/FDX $253/AMZN $1624 will just keep going up. BUYOUT NOW!
If the unions (NALC) weren’t so spineless to management, maybe a Democrat would have been elected. We had 8 years of Obama and Democratic control of Congress, and zero was done to help the middle class, or strengthen the union workers and we were sold out to the Republicans. This is the unions fault should of demanded better things for us workers, not concession. Fred Rolando is the perfect example of a weak corrupt union leader. You start by voting a guy like Fred Rolando, and then there is a chance you will have stronger union that politicians would not mess with.
Leaving in a few months and praying to be grandfathered into my supplement. Great post 1st Ammendment but the loyalists of this man don’t care. I hope that when his time as POTUS is up he will buy an island and take his mindless zombies with him. If he doesn’t get a 2nd term I can’t wait to read the book about how he played the party for fools. Mark my words, if he feels betrayed like the little crybaby he is, he will turn on the party. It will be a tweet storm like no other. Can’t wait.
Our local union does nothing but spend dues money on out of state conventions. Might as well do away with them. Glad I don’t have to pay dues to support their vacations.
So R. Head thinks Donald Dump is ” the greatest man to walk the planet”. He is the worst man to walk the planet! I remember he said on Larry King Live show in 2002 that ” Rich people are better than poor people, that’s just the way it is “. What arrogance, selfish crap that is! He mocks disabled people, women, Mexicans, and threatens anyone that stands up to him. You better stay young and healthy. Nobody is ever going to help you, why should they? Just as Herbert Spencer once said ” The survival Of The Fittest”. If you ever fall to the wayside Tough. Donald Dump will help you with an anchor. The good news is, time wounds all heels!
all you USPS employees who voted for dolt45,you’re beyond hope lol lol lol
it is quite clear to me that you have never worked in the NY City Building Trades………..Plumbers, Electricans, HAVC, Cement etc. workers love to work on Trump Buildings, is their first pick when jobs come up for bid in the union hall, pays top union scale and great working conditions. if problems arise during building Trump fires the project manager, not the workers. just another case of a feeble, low IQ postalized postal dummy spouting demonrat talking points. I have worked in the private sector for 15 years………..the most stupid people I have ever met, bar none, are postal workers. they have no self-esteem and let the bureaucrats and company unions crap all over them. after 25 years of seeing no spine from these worms it makes me want to vomit. hey clueless, they ran the place into the dirt, with the help of company unions…….its a shell of its former self and is a stage 4 terminal govt boondoggle. lucky if it lasts 5 more years.
While I wholeheartedly agree the President has stepped on us all, there have been union local presidents and stewards abuse and exploit their union positions to the detriment of us all. Serious breach of integrity and solidarity, these individuals milked every last dime they could out of APWU leadership and stewardship often throwing many of us under the bus and under managements rug while collecting our dues. SOMETHING must be done in those situations. They undermine the entire membership and should immediately be called out. National and local business agents turn a deaf ear not wanting to rock other locals boat. Corrosion was starting from the inside out. However, Our US President is not, nor ever has been, and never will be, concerned about the employees, the “little people” that turn the wheels of every company across America. For those who reject this idea, name one thing he has done for the workers across the country. In addition, name one thing he has actually accomplished. NOT promised, what has he completed ?
You can 1.) file charges of failure to represent, 2.) elect a trustworthy individual or 3.) run for office your self.
It doesn’t help when local union officers spend their shift in the union office either sleeping or playing on the computer.
Any Federal employee, any worker, that voted for Mr. Bankruptcy was just asking to get screwed! I remember one day the temperature was twenty one degrees below zero and our prickmaster, oh I mean our postmaster , forced the carriers out to deliver mail. One of the women carriers came down with frostbite. She was put up for removal, unsafe work practice. Now she didn’t need a union did she? In 1992 the Postal Inspectors ran a drug sting and arrested nineteen employees. Only trouble was, the prosecuting attorney tossed the case out. wasn’t any evidence. The Postal Service had a program called “Dollars for Collars”. The Postal Service ran the sting operation all over the country. Postal Service had to pay big bucks for what they did. Two Inspectors fired. Federal employees don’t need unions. In LA. The employee in the LA. Veterans motor pool in charge of vehicles notified management a number of cars were missing, credit cards had unlawful charges. What happened, he was placed up for removal! The employees that are under FERS will lose their S.S. supplement if Mr. Bankruptcy gets his way, just thank the Mr. Bankruptcy voters! And remember while you go through pay and benefits cuts the savings will go for the $30,000 million military parade in Washington, D.C. The D, C. stands for Dis Connected. You don’t need any union rights, you just need to know your place. You don’t need to be treated with respect, you just need to work for nothing!
I love Donald Trump and if he thinks this is best than it must be. Donald Trump is the greatest man to walk this planet. I know a lot of people who work for the Postal Service that feel the same way as I do about our President
You love a thieving liar and a man-child who puts his ego and personal interests above ALL ELSE. You love a divisive fascist who is bringing this country to ruin and will be laughing all the way to Russia when he and his spawn defect there because it will be the only country that will take him. Keep drinking the “Faux News” Koolaid and wearing your MAGA hat so that everyone knows how stupid you really are.
You can love him and still be critical of some actions. No one is right every time.
In a democracy it is your job to be critical of leaders. Even the ones you are in favor of.
I enjoy twooping
Good, it’s about time we got rid of some lazy postal workers.
But you fail to realize it’ll be an excuse to fire your ass without provocation, either. Just wait and see how long you stay employed without a union when you get near 50 and management looks at you as an insurance risk and looks for some excuse to get rid of you. It happens all the time in private industry.
What if you get a serious injury or illness? Without the unions, you wouldn’t get sick leave, and if you missed too much work, after the FMLA 12 week time limit expired, you’d get fired. Same goes if somebody in your family got seriously ill or injured.
Problem is, you and a lot of others are not thinking things through to the logical result. Without union protection, you could get a real asshole manager that decided he or she just didn’t like you and came up with some flimsy excuse to get rid of you and you would have no recourse to get your job back. If you’re stupid enough to think people don’t lose their jobs because of personality conflicts, then you have been living under a rock for a long time.
And if you’re a supervisor or floor level manager, or a postmaster, even your representation through your associations would be gone, and granted they can’t do much but bitch anyway.
We all know there are corrupt union officials at all levels. I agree they need to be put back on the floor and replaced with somebody who won’t play footsies with management and fights for his or her membership. I agree when I was still an active carrier that there were and there continue to be some really piece of shit carriers and clerks who should have been removed a long time ago, but that is because management doesn’t know how to properly and fairly adjudicate discipline and the unions, if they’re not in management’s pockets, routinely beat the charges because management screws the grievance procedure up.
You better be careful about what you are celebrating, Booyah, because without unions, you will find yourself thrown under the bus faster than you can scan a parcel. Think of your long term future instead of right now.
UPS, FDX, & Amazon are better companies-they make $Billions. Darwin’s theory of evolution pertaining to the business model. business 101.mail is going, going gone and only packages will be around in the near future, its too bad you are on the short end of the stick but that is life, the strong survive and the weak get weeded out. your company unions worked hand in glove with the mismanaging bureaucrats when they should have gone to Congress about the corruption, nepotism, and malfeasance-they didn’t because their pockets were being lined too! it is not called the US Postal Welfare Department for a reason. when was the last time you shopped at Sears? when was the last time you flew on Pan American Airways?
People in the USPS and other federal jobs better pull their heads out if they’re continuing to support Trump. I seriously doubt he can strip representation with a stroke of a pen, but he’s trying. I do believe it’ll create a real shitstorm, as so many other agencies are involved and possibly victimized. I’m glad I’m out.
But if you are a Republican Trump lover in the USPS, you are signing your own career death warrant and if you can’t or won’t see it, I will be extending no sympathy to you. Especially the scabs. But there are so many millions who are having to suffer and will do so even more because of the blind faith and devotion to a terrible, perverted President and equally tyrannical middle class hating GOP.
The sad part for many of us is that we are in redneck states with GOP U.S. Representatives and U.S. Senators, and thus will be totally ignored. The only thing too many right wingers know is evangelicalism and guns. Oh, and racial hatred and general xenophobia (fear of everything they don’t understand, which is a lot), not to mention condoning the sexual perversive behavior of elected officials if that sick shit claims to be “Christian”, so they’re “forgiven”.
Nobody who subscribes to this type of life philosophy is about to give a shit about labor, union rights, or even their own job security. They simply assume their USPS jobs are forever, management will always be fair, and many refuse to be part of one of the four unions and steal their representation without dues because they’re cheap. They want it all for nothing. Well, in a twist, they may well end up with nothing for all if Trump and the GOP aren’t kicked out and soon.
It doesn’t, Nate. But at least we get to hear all the Crooked Hitlery supporters whinining. Afterall, Odumba just did SO much for postal workers, just like the Union said he would. He won a Nobel Peace Price! Haha! MAGA!
HOW DOES THIS AFFECT POSTAL WORKERS?
Didn’t you just read my post? Trump wants to kill the postal unions, law enforcement unions and every federal job protection association he can get away with. If that happens, you are at the mercy of postal management, and I guarantee you they will be besides themselves if they don’t have unions to have to fight anymore. If you think some of them are bad now, without representation, kid, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
it doesn’t; yet………….