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Federal employee unions are on edge after President Trump called on Congress Tuesday night to give agencies the power to fire federal workers at will.
In his first State of the Union address, Trump praised the VA Accountability Act a law he signed last year to make it easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire employees accused of misconduct and called for similar powers to be extended to all agencies.
All Americans deserve accountability and respect and that is what we are giving them, he said.
So tonight, I call on the Congress to empower every Cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people.
http://thehill.com/regulation/371878-trumps-targeting-of-federal-workforce-puts-unions-on-edge?rnd=1517569236
Don't you mean reward cronies Trump? That's how things used to be run. It was called the spoils system.
atreides1
(16,079 posts)How many federal workers voted for the orange shit gibbon, and how many of them fit his description???
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Power of the Purge
How original. Right out of the Dictatorship 101 class - remove disloyals.
get the red out
(13,466 posts)Exactly!
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)The old political spoils system left everyone at risk, even the top dog.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)to do is to fire General Schedule employees who had to qualify for their positions and put their own people into those positions. Federal employees serve regardless of what party is in power as expected. There is no reason for changes. If anything, president Dotard is the least qualified, least prepared, least capable of setting an example of what a federal employee should be, that I can recall in my lifetime. All you have to do is look at the shit that he's hired when he was able to hire, "shit like his Communications Director he's believed to be banging", "Amarrosa", and the "kid" he appointed just our of college with the fake resume to lead the Opioid Epidemic even though he has no medical background or previous experience related to rehabilitating drug abusers. All his 'employees' seem to max out at the top of their pay scale which is a lot more, (in some cases more than twice as much as GS employees) even though they have no comparable work experience or education for the job they are performing. In most cases their only qualification is that they worked on the highly unqualified president's political campaign and their willingness to kiss the similarly inadequately prepared president's ass.