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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (81107)	10/9/2011 9:31:54 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217544

yep.

To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (81107)	10/10/2011 7:52:18 AM
From: bart13	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217544

Even FDR knew it: All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters. Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Letter on the Resolution of Federation of Federal Employees Against Strikes in Federal Service presidency.ucsb.edu

To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (81107)	10/10/2011 9:01:47 AM
From: Tommaso	3 Recommendations Respond to of 217544

>>>And 22.5 million public workers have no business unionizing against the taxpayer. <<< Just move to North Carolina. It's illegal here. We have the lowest percentage of union membership in the country--below Mississippi! Lots of people think unions and communists are the same thing. No collective bargaining for public employees. Just buy yourself a used trailer, an awning, several guns, and a Confederate flag and find an acre of weedy land far from a city and you're in business. I forgot the cow skull nailed to a tree.