Trump admin kicking unions out of free govt. office spaces: Pay rent or get out.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Trump admin kicking unions out of free govt. office spaces: Pay rent or get out.
BizPac, Jul 11, 2018, Tom Tillison

While organized labor had a friend in former President Barack Obama, who stacked the National Labor Relations Board with career union labor lawyers, unions are now having a harder go at it under the Trump administration.  In fact, unions accustomed to be provided free government office space to conduct their business are finding themselves with an option of either paying rent or being kicked to the curb.

At least two government agencies have begun efforts to implement President Trump’s recent workforce executive orders governing union use of agency property, according to officials with the National Treasury Employees Union.

NTEU President Tony Reardon said last week the Social Security Administration’s Office of Hearing Operations informed the union that it plans to strip it of rent-free office space unilaterally, according to Government Executive.

Health and Human Services has also proposed via bargaining on a new contract that NTEU begin paying rent for office space on agency property.

The moves come as the Office of Personnel Management released guidance last week for agencies to implement Trump’s executive orders “aimed at making it easier to fire federal workers, streamline the collective bargaining negotiation process, and curb union employees’ use of official time,” the government business publication reported.


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[Frank Cannon]

Awesome. My inner slumlord is excited to read this.

[Sanguine]

Good.

[DB]

I'll give that a thumbs up!

[roamer_1]

YEP! A beautiful thing.

[goodwithagun]

Nice 

[Bigun]

 

[goodwithagun]

Awesome. My inner slumlord is excited to read this.

What does your outer slumlord think?

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Hopefully protecting union profits by protecting business's that employ union workers makes up for the lost office space but I would have to work really hard to see this as a bad thing. 

[The_Reader_David]

Hopefully protecting union profits by protecting business's that employ union workers makes up for the lost office space but I would have to work really hard to see this as a bad thing.

This isn't about unions whose members are employed by profit-making businesses (whose access to corporate space is a matter for freedom of contract -- if they negotiated it as part of their contract, they get it, as is right an proper), but unions whose members are employees of the Federal government.  Even FDR thought public-sector unions should not exist, and I thoroughly agree.

Neither public sector unions nor trade unions (which function as guilds, rather than unions, demanding government grants of monopolies) should exist.  Labor unions are a matter of free association and, provided they stick to negotiating pay, benefits and working conditions, rather than acting like trade unions, are a perfectly reasonable part of the free market.

[Frank Cannon]

What does your outer slumlord think?

There is no outer slumlord. When you have an outer slumlord you have the govt' up your ass for not taking care of roaches and the hot water heater that is non functioning.......for 6 months.

[corbe]

   He's just trying to fill up empty rental space in Trump properties.  With that being said to maintain my image as a Trump hater here, I must also say that if this pans out I'm actually starting to like some of the stuff his Administration is implementing and may reconsider my vote for Warren in 2020.

[Emjay]

   He's just trying to fill up empty rental space in Trump properties.  With that being said to maintain my image as a Trump hater here, I must also say that if this pans out I'm actually starting to like some of the stuff his Administration is implementing and may reconsider my vote for Warren in 2020.

And relinquish your credentials with your Native-American ancestors?  What a sell-out.

[corbe]

And relinquish your credentials with your Native-American ancestors?  What a sell-out.

   Had we never sold Manhattan Island for a few trickets, Trump would not be President.

[Emjay]

   Had we never sold Manhattan Island for a few trickets, Trump would not be President.

Wait a minute, are you saying Manhattan went for Trump?  You ARE getting soft, corbe.

[corbe]

   Had Trump had to make it in LA or Cincinnati as a real estate tycoon things would have turned out much differently @Emjay.  /JS