Summary
Donald Trump’s proposed mandate to end federal telework and fire non-compliant employees faces major obstacles, including widespread union contracts protecting remote work.
About 56% of federal workers are covered by collective bargaining agreements, many of which include telework provisions.
Additionally, a record 10% of federal jobs are fully remote, and many agencies lack sufficient office space to accommodate full-time in-office work due to post-pandemic real estate reductions.
Critics argue that enforcing this mandate would be costly, contradicting Trump’s goals to reduce government spending and personnel.
This is such a weird hobbyhorse of the right - getting everyone “back to work”, meaning a very narrow definition of work that only includes being in-person.
It’s like they are so enraged that donvict’s stupid handling of Covid and the reality of Covid so obviously overriding all their silly belief systems about how things like science work, that they want to erase ALL of the effects of Covid, such as the tidal shift to remote work.
I used to get a commenter on Denver Post forums that would argue with me until he was blue in the face that Covid would have no long-term cultural impacts. He absolutely insisted on it, even as nearly everyone that could work from home, was 100% doing so…he claimed this would have no long term effect, and everyone should plan on “getting back to work” in a few weeks. He started this in 2020 and kept it up until DP shut off their comments.
I think he was especially incensed over WEF’s use of the term “The Great Reset” and anything that had a whiff of “globalists” is something people like that are programmed to get triggered about. But anyway, when I look around, I still see long-term cultural impacts of Covid, even if some wingers hate the idea of the WEF.
The man’s a real estate mogul, work from home is a threat to his commercial property values.
I’m happy for any union or person that was able to get telework into their contract.
Fuck everyone for trying to take it away, it solves so many of the worlds problems.
Some got contracts, some didn’t. That’s why labour law is important.
And when this doesn’t work out, guess whose fault it’s going to be?
They’ll blame government employee unions and try to abolish them.
Around the time of the right having all their ire directed at ACORN, I seem to recall a similar concerted effort directed at SEIU.
A whole lot of dipshits were being whipped up to oppose the very idea of being unionized and working in the public sector. I’m not sure why that fizzled out; I was pretty sure they were going to somehow give it the ACORN treatment.
Obama.
Obamna*
Does anyone think that Trump is going to do anything but watch TV and post for 12 hours a day?
I believe that his administration is going to do a whole lot of horrific shit, yes.
Wake the fuck up.
Trump and his administration are two different things.
Trump will be sitting down, his minions will be at it 24/7
That’s like saying Hitler didn’t actually turn the gas on.
You’re drawing a distinction that doesn’t matter in common parlance.
He has surrounded himself with bad faith actors who will happily exploit whatever power vacuum exists within the executive branch.
