Surprise: Government employee union wants taxpayers to fund an expansion of their ranks and make it harder to fire bad workers
(From The Federal Times)
Provisions in the upcoming National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021 could be used to not only benefit the Pentagon’s military personnel but also to improve the workplace for the agency’s civilian workforce and employees across the executive branch, the American Federation of Government Employees told congressional leadership June 3…
…AFGE’s letter to House and Senate appropriators focuses first on the opportunity to protect collective bargaining rights for DoD employees, specifically by counteracting a memorandum published Feb. 21 that would enable the secretary of defense to remove collective bargaining protections for certain employees to promote national security.
