Should Federal Workers Be Treated Differently Than Private-Sector Employees? I & I Editorial Board

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Should Federal Workers Be Treated Differently Than Private-Sector Employees?
I & I Editorial Board
February 28, 2025


In consuming the news, one could easily conclude that, as we said earlier in the week, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are carpet bombing the federal government. The wails and screeching breakdowns over the injustice of federal workers losing their jobs are ear-piercing. They are, we’re told, under attack.

After all, these are no everyday workers toiling for large corporations and small businesses – they’re federal employees who apparently are so indispensable to life as we know it that if they are no longer employed at taxpayers’ expense, America and maybe even western civilization will collapse.

Why else would there be so much fuss, so many tantrums, over a few of them losing their jobs?

We noted earlier that even if 100,000 federal workers lose their jobs, that’s a tiny 4% haircut off of nearly 2.3 million federal workforce. Yet we hear about an angry mob – our term – “getting fired up for the fight,” the birth of “fresh grassroots energy (that) came after a wave of layoffs hit government workers in recent weeks” and grousing about the administration’s “extreme, illegal, and unconstitutional actions.“

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[Bigun]

HELL NO!!! Next question.

[Wingnut]

Standing in the unemployment line is a good builder of character. 

[DefiantMassRINO]

Every profession, other than oligarch, is becoming just another $h!t job.

[catfish1957]

I remember the term "Dead Heads" being analogous to government workers, even as far back as the 70's.   (My apologies to Greatful Dead fans).

So in some ways in my eyes, this change in double standards for guv workers is 50 years in the making.

[Fishrrman]

Bigun, you're wrong.

YES, government employees SHOULD be "treated differently".

Private sector employees can unionize if they wish, and enough of them agree.

This should be BANNED for government employees.
If I'm not mistaken, government employee unions WERE banned until the FDR era, were they not...?

[libertybele]

I've never worked for the gov't but I've known a few people that have.  If they pass their 60 or 90 day review, it becomes almost impossible to fire them, regardless of performance, absenteeism, or tardiness.  Most get medical benefits and pensions, which many in the private sector don't get.  Granted the private sector generally makes a bit more in the beginning but you add in the benefits over time and the government employees make more.

I am one that doesn't believe that gov't employees should be given a free pass just because they work for the gov't.

[Kamaji]

If yall don’t like it, then maybe you should be putting together a solid political campaign to revise Title 5 of the USC and the regulations thereunder, and spending a little less time having orgasms over the braggadocio of Trump.  So far, nothing he’s done can’t be overturned legally other than perhaps the termination of the probationary employees. 


But that would require patience and hard work, and a lot less screaming and wailing. 

[Bigun]

Bigun, you're wrong.

YES, government employees SHOULD be "treated differently".

Private sector employees can unionize if they wish, and enough of them agree.

This should be BANNED for government employees.
If I'm not mistaken, government employee unions WERE banned until the FDR era, were they not...?

I stand corrected @Fishrrman you're right!