ACT NOW OR ELSE
The White House is doing its best to screw over federal employees and if you want to stop it, NOW is the time to get involved politically. Here is just a sample of the terrible things that are in the President’s Big Beautiful Bill that will make your life miserable—not to mention destroy one of our country’s greatest assets, i.e., a neutral, professional, merit-based civil service. Union leaders can’t do much about this by themselves. This is one of those times they need members and friends of members to call and email members of Congress to stop this. Call the members who are blindly doing whatever the White House wants to tell them to stop and that you will work hard to defeat them if they don’t. You might want to point out that if they allow he civil service to be destroyed, it will be their constituents that suffer poor service. Call those who realize this is all bad for the country to let them know you are behind them and will be sending a check. Get involved. Be a citizen.
- Making new federal employees pay more toward the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) in exchange for maintaining civil service rights. Employees who select to be at-will would pay 9.4 percent into FERS, while those who elect to keep their employment protections will pay 14.4 percent.
- Charging unions and other nonprofits a 10 percent fee to deduct dues or other contributions from payroll, like CFC donations.
- Requiring federal employees to pay a $350 filing fee to challenge adverse actions before the Merit Systems Protection Board.
- Allowing the president to broadly reorganize the federal government with minimal congressional oversight.
- It gives the president sweeping authority for ten years to reorganize or eliminate federal agencies, with $100 million to OMB and no clear Congressional oversight.
- It requires unions to pay the entirecost of official time, including salary and benefits, plus all office space and resources. These costs are to be set by agencies and cannot be appealed. Unions that cannot pay would be debarred.
