{"id":65592,"date":"2016-05-04T10:02:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T14:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65592"},"modified":"2016-05-04T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T14:02:03","slug":"senate-caves-to-unions-in-veterans-affairs-omnibus-bill-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65592","title":{"rendered":"Senate caves to unions in Veterans Affairs omnibus bill dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think that we can all agree that the Veterans’ Affairs Department has a problem and that the culture at the agency needs to be changed. The only way to change the culture is to change the people who have created the anti-veteran culture there. So the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee set out to make it easier for the agency to rid itself of folks. Well the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) stuck their noses into the process and got everything that they wanted, and nothing that will help veterans (of course), according to the Daily Caller<\/a>;<\/p>\n

All of a federal employee union\u2019s objections were removed from a Senate bill designed to help the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) discipline bad employees, making it politically easier for the bill to pass, but indicating it may not be doing the very thing it\u2019s supposed to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, we can’t have Republicans doing something that will actually benefit anyone these days, can we?<\/p>\n

The original draft said no employee may complete their initial probationary period unless their manager affirmatively signs off on it. But this was changed so the employee will automatically become permanent unless other action is taken.<\/p>\n

The Government Accountability Office recently said one of the best ways to ensure bad employees are booted from government is by not renewing them after the probation period, but the period often ends without managers realizing it.<\/p>\n

The union\u2019s other three complaints were that employees didn\u2019t have enough time to appeal, reprimands wouldn\u2019t be removed from their file quickly enough, and performance reviews could be revised after the fact.<\/p>\n

Isakson quickly allowed all of these to be changed. For example, the draft bill says letters of reprimand could be removed from an employee\u2019s file after five years, but the final version reduces it to three years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t even understand why the AFGE is such a threat to the Senate. I only knew a few people who were members of the union while I worked with the feds. The only people who belonged to the union intended to be F-ups when they began working. The rest of us didn’t see the point.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Bobo for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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