Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:those contracts are not helping anyone - they are only there for unions to make money. Tell me anything significant they negotiated recently that was helpful to feds?
Union dues are not taxpayer dollars. You are free to not pay your dues if you don't want to, and you still get to benefit from the union's work and then moan about it here. I find the dues worthwhile for a lot of reasons, including good benefits that the union negotiated, like backup childcare access and free dental. But the union does not run on taxpayer dollars.
The negotiations with the agency were done by agency employees - people who have real, everyday jobs at the agency - who are allowed to use paid work time for union business. Because the only way to meet with management is to do it during business hours.