Posted on 05/30/2014 12:44:53 PM PDT by amnestynone
We know with certainty that there is at least one person the Department of Veterans Affairs is serving well. That would be the president of local lodge 1798 of the National Federation of Federal Employees.
The Federal Labor Relations Authority, the agency that mediates federal labor disputes, earlier this month ruled in favor of this union president, in a dispute over whether she need bother to show up at her workplace—the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Martinsburg, W.Va. According to FLRA documents, this particular VA employee is 100% "official time"—D.C. parlance for federal employees who work every hour of every work day for their union, at the taxpayer's expense.
In April 2012, this, ahem, VA "employee" broke her ankle and declared that she now wanted to do her nonwork for the VA entirely from the comfort of her home. Veterans Affairs attempted a compromise: Perhaps she could, pretty please, come in two days a week? She refused, and complained to the FLRA that the VA was interfering with her right to act as a union official. The VA failed to respond to the complaint in the required time (perhaps too busy caring for actual veterans) and so the union boss summarily won her case.
The VA battle is only just starting, but any real reform inevitably ends with a fight over organized labor. Think of it as the federal version of Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan and other states where elected officials have attempted to rein in the public-sector unions that have hijacked government agencies for their own purpose. Fixing the VA requires first breaking labor's grip, and the unions are already girding for that fight.
This is really what obamacare was about the unionization of
the entire healthcare industry.
It’s totally clear what we’re up against in defeating the communist democrats infested in our government. If we don’t take the fight to these anti americans and politically kick rear end in 2014 and 2016 we may not recognize this country in a short time.
What a surprise, those great unions ruining another business operation.
This is the ultimate reason that VA Health will never be turned-over to private health care clinics and hospitals as the solution to the current crisis. Too many Democrat voters working in the VA. Too many Affirmative Action paycheck collectors that could care less about those gimpy old crackers.
“You don’t get me I belong to the union!
You don’t get me I belong to the union!
You don’t get me I belong to the union!
You don’t get me ‘cause I’m a u-nee-yon man!”
Unions have become the significant element stopping needed changes in government and elsewhere. They are the new mafia.
Yep — just saw it on the nightly news —
The union reps are crying that the VA doctors can’t work any harder and see any more patients even though they see half as many a day as doctors in private practice do.
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