NYT: Some Federal Workers Lose Bargaining Rights (W's executive order on Monday)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/washington/02labor.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

By ROBERT PEAR
Published: December 1, 2008

WASHINGTON — President Bush issued an executive order on Monday that denies collective bargaining rights to about 8,600 federal employees who work in law enforcement, intelligence and other agencies responsible for national security.

Mr. Bush said it would be inconsistent with “national security requirements” to allow those employees to engage in collective bargaining with respect to the conditions of their employment.

Among those affected are 5,000 employees of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is now part of the Justice Department.

Scott M. Stanzel, a White House spokesman, said that 4,000 of those employees had not chosen to participate in collective bargaining. But he said that 900 were represented by collective bargaining units.

Colleen M. Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said that employees at the alcohol, tobacco and firearms agency had just “had their collective bargaining rights stripped away for no justifiable reason.”

The union said it represented 1,600 employees at the agency. Those employees have had collective bargaining rights for more than 30 years, with no indication that the rights interfered with the agency’s mission, Ms. Kelley said.

FULL story at link.

[HillbillyBob]

1. More rights stripped away by the fascist pigs

nt

[acmavm]

2. That's okay. As long as the BFEE makes out like the bandits

they are, fuck everything and everyone else.