Thread: House Legislation today

I'll go on record..."It will never happen"...they got something else they want and using this as a leverage..Seen this tactic before.

Me thinks it will happen, seen it too many times in history between the private sector and the public sector. How did we get to FERS from CSRS? The Congress was looking for ways to cut the budget and make federal employee's pay more into their retirement. USPS new contract with the APWU, my union, provided for a two tier pay system with much longer time between pay steps and much more flexibility for management to use and abuse non-career employee's. Within our own membership we allowed management to utilize non-traditional work schedules, 30 to 44 hours a week within 3 to 6 days a week. We seen the writing on the wall and voted this contract in. I worked at Gardner Denver prior to going federal and they had a two tier system.

Point is austerity is coming to America and this is one of the first steps, cut government jobs and cut government pay benefits. All Federal employee's are second class over paid citizens to the rest of the voting public. We are not always the first to feel the pain of a economy but we will eventually feel it when the public gets angry enough and the politicians will throw us under the bus to get their perceived votes.

This will get the economy moving again. Keep taking away from the consumer class and watch it all keep tumbling down.

I have a feeling Buster is right.

House set to vote on the anti-federal worker bill Tuesday. Provisions of pay freezes, retirement contribution hikes, reductions in FERS payouts, etc, all have stayed in the bill. The House republicans will bring it to a vote in the afternoon.

http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cf...ref=todaysnews

I'm telling you this will pass, the public does not want its employee's to make more than themselves and when push comes to shove Congress will throw us all under the bus because we are servants.

Originally Posted by Show-me

I'm telling you this will pass, the public does not want its employee's to make more than themselves and when push comes to shove Congress will throw us all under the bus because we are servants.

Crooked bastards.

Originally Posted by jkenjohnson

Crooked bastards.

Here is a link to the actual language in the bill.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3630:

What a load of hooooey.

Included also is a section on DRUG TESTING FOR APPLICANTS FOR UNEMPLOYEMENT COMPENSATION
and other various and assorted junk that has nothing to do with creating jobs.

They even have added in language which would set new rules for the Senate. Rather pushy of them to, in the House version, put special language in the bill applicable to changing rules in the Senate.


What junk.

Can we throw every single one of them out of office now?

I thought we were supposed to Share the Wealth? anxiety.gif

Originally Posted by nnuut

I thought we were supposed to Share the Wealth? anxiety.gif

They are sharing it among themselves.

I think Buster hit the nail on the HEAD! Hammering_in.gif