Federal Employees Say Forcing Them Back Into The Office Endangers The Planet

This is where your hard earned taxpayer dollars go – to these sloths. They should all be fired. Clearly, they are not needed. The US government is the nation’s largest employer. It’s obscene.

Federal Employees Say Forcing Them Back Into The Office Endangers The Planet

The largest union of federal employees is arguing against a return to the office because it would be harmful for the environment, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

By: John Hugh DeMastri, Daily Caller, February 22, 2023

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President Joe Biden has been under increasing pressure from Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky and Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., to send federal employees back to the office, the Post reported. In response, representatives from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) told the Post that a return to the office would have negative environmental impacts.

“We all know that personal automobiles are responsible for a tremendous amount of pollution through the burning of fossil fuels,” Jacque Simon, public policy director at the AFGE, told the Post. “So every car trip not taken has an environmental benefit.”

This sentiment was echoed by AFGE Local 1236 President Bethany Dreyfus, who represents employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Hawaii, California, Nevada and Arizona, according to the Post. The calls to return to the office have “unsettled” EPA employees in that region who tout the environmental and work-life balance benefits of remote work.

“So many of us work on reducing emissions in our daily jobs at the EPA,” Dreyfus told the Post. “So to be able to do that not only through our work, but how we get to work, is really important.”

The U.S. federal government owns or leases roughly one-third of properties in D.C., and accounted for approximately one-fourth of the city’s pre-pandemic jobs, ABC News reported. D.C. is the U.S. city with the highest work-from-home rate, putting pressure on businesses, who are seeing less foot traffic, and city officials are concerned that tax revenue may take a permanent hit.

“We need decisive action by the White House to either get most federal workers back to the office, most of the time, or to realign their vast property holdings for use by the local government, by nonprofits, by businesses and by any user willing to revitalize it,” Bowser said in her inaugural address Jan. 2, ABC News reported.

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Intrepid

1 year ago

I have often wondered why Federal employees ever needed a union. After all, who are the organizing against?

I have figured it out. AFGE Local 1236 is organized against us, the people who employ them. Fire them before it all falls apart.

Unions are a scam as you can see. John F. Kennedy was adamantly against pubic employee unions.

Last edited 1 year ago by Intrepid

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From a Remote Location

1 year ago

Reply to  Intrepid

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Franklin D. Roosevelt also against public employee unions?

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Gerald

1 year ago

Reply to  From a Remote Location

You are correct.

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42beegee

1 year ago

Reply to  Intrepid

But, JFK allowed public employee unions because he wanted their votes.
“Executive Order 10988 is a United States presidential executive order issued by President John F. Kennedy on January 17, 1962 that granted federal employees the right to collective bargaining.” Nixon: ” Executive Order 10988 was effectively replaced by President Richard Nixon’s Executive Order 11491 in 1969.”
And the 2023 Omnibus Bill allows for the following: “Raiding Social Security to Fund Woke Union Agenda”
“The Congressional Budget Office just reported that Social Security will be insolvent by 2033. Yet this massive spending package would allow money to be diverted from Social Security’s trust fund—and then reimbursed by taxpayers—to cover union expenses. The trust fund also could be used to pay Social Security Administration employees to work for their union instead of performing the jobs they were hired to do for America’s seniors and retirees.”

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Snowedin

1 year ago

The unions are weak and do not stand behind the members. They are in bed with the politicians and donate the money they get from member dues to the progressive, commie, demos.

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From a Remote Location

1 year ago

Reply to  Snowedin

In a way, they DO stand behind the members – WAAAAAAAAAAAAY behind them.

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Gerald

1 year ago

We could lose 90% of federal employees and no one would notice. They are a bigger waste of our tax dollars then Ukraine and green energy. They know it too which shows the character and work ethic of the majority. Very happy to do nothing while on the public dole.

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Stephen

1 year ago

We have the worst quid pro quo, payoffs, over charging the people than anywhere else in the world!

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R.G.

1 year ago

Well, they actually are right. Those government employees are a danger to this nation. Most federal government agencies MUST BE dissolved.

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arthur facteau

1 year ago

Yeah, well, not coming back to work endangers your continued employment, so get back in here, or find work someplace else, full stop.

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