Last month, union boss Everett Kelley, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, sent out a self-congratulatory memo to all of his members celebrating the election of Joe Biden and the return of Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate. But rather than just taking a victory lap, he cautioned union members to not âpat ourselves on the backâ because âwindows of opportunity rarely stay open for long.â He warned them that there may be only two years to undo the âdamageâ (translation: âprogressâ) that Donald Trump made in curbing abusive union practices in the federal government.
It looks like the AFGE has gotten their message through to the White House and Democrats in Congress. Tucked into the COVID relief bill currently being jammed through the legislative process are some huge perks for federal workers.
One of the more eye-popping ones is a provision mandating fifteen weeks (!) of automatic paid leave above and beyond the normal, generous amounts of paid time off workers receive, for anyone âaffectedâ by the pandemic.
For those without a napkin and a pencil handy to do the math, that works out to nearly a third of the entire working year.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-workers-scoring-massive-perks-covid-relief-bill
