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No Ted...if it was union busting he would have decided to make 100% of the federal jobs a competitive bid process instead of just 50%.

Here's hoping he is able to institute this process and make up for the price increases of everything associated with union thugs/hacks/goons and their ridiculous demands. I have never worked with a less motivated bunch of entitlement minded, do as little as I can get away with, don't do more than the next person people in my entire 40 year work history...than the whiny lib union types I have worked with in the past 15 years!

I have been a federal employee of some sort for the past 33 years. The last 17 as a civil servant for the Army. I am NOT a union member, nor am I even eligible for union membership or representation.

I have seen a huge movement to privatize the federal work force and have seen that same movement fall flat on its face. The reason - management, or rather the lack of good management practices. We send the military members, colonels and above, out to negotiate the contracts and they get taken to the cleaners each and every time. That is why the system will never work. Not only are there problems with the government unions, but with all unions. They are there for one reason, to take the employer to the cleaners in any way they can. They no longer serve the worker as they were designed to do, they are now a self sustaining entity that feeds on the American worker.

The example that is most lasting on me is at Ft Knox. The base support activities were contracted out last year. In the first year the contract had a cost over run of $10,000,000.00. The contract was won by General Dynamics, and then sub cotracted out to smaller companies. The federal workers had bid on the contract and were under bid by GD for about $3,000,000.00. It doesn't take a real mental giant to realize the work is costing the taxpayer $7,000,000.00 more. To top it off, the quality of work is no where near what was there before the private corporations got involved.