If they said that in Canada, they'd be sued for Lying.

Also on Fox yesterday... Glenn Beck was raving about the Seattle police protesters around 6:50 He's trying to say that all the unemployed kids staging protests every few days are part of the spread of Egypt style anticapitalist protests. here:http://www.youtube.com/embed/3HEGtPVEFrY

Race to the bottom.

And everyone thinks they're overpaid too.

Yes, the anti-victim was robbed of something, which was used to whack him on the head once.

Fox headline for tomorrow: Slaves live longer, healthier, happier lives than free people.

@7:

AND chocolate rations have been increased to 2 gm per week.

In this case, FOX News is perhaps only half-lying, since multi-millionaire senators are technically "federal employees", right?

no big deal, it's just a semi-random headline generator here- http://tinyurl.com/y34384o

So, Fox viewers think non-unionized federal employees are "thriving," yet they wish to fire as many of them as possible anyway?

"Republicans Turned Off By Size of Obama's Package"

http://archive.easternecho.com/content/r…

That headline, and the double-entendre article that accompanies it, will always be one of the best of all time.

Bullshit! I'm a federal worker and I'm totally overworked without the possibility of striking or even speaking to the fucking press.

Don't federal workers also have a highly regulated system that sets salaries, and controls hiring and firing called Civil Service, which predates most unions?

Federal workers are thriving without a union. At least those that have the power to vote themselves pay raises do.

There are so many things wrong with this report that I don't know where to begin. I do know that I get paid less than I got as a less-educated technician in the private sector, and I work a lot harder. I also haven't gotten a raise in two years because of where I fall on a table of salaries (13 is right. Also, 12)

I belong to a union and am allowed ONE HOUR of "official time" (see the report) per quarter for union duties. That's it. I usually don't even claim the hour because it basically comes out of my boss's "official time." Also, I take in fees for my services (usually from Law firms) that amount to about 10X my salary, so the "taxpayers" are nowhere near to paying my salary.

So dumb. Hey Fox, have you thought this through? There's more to the government than defense.* Do you not want research for medical treatments? How about intellectual property protection?

As far as the main point of this rambling report: it makes little sense and it doesn't jive with the headline at all (right?).

*If you want to get mad about how taxpayer money is spent, you should worry about the no-bid, overly expensive contractors found in every branch of service.

“Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relations and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government….The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.”

“[a] strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to obstruct the operations of government until their demands are satisfied. Such action looking toward the paralysis of government by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable and intolerable.”

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I am a federal worker . . . and I belong to a union.

@16, striking by federal employees is illegal, even if they are unionized. I was once a union, civil service federal employee. And yes, collective bargaining with the federal government is a different process than is usually understood with the private sector. For example, pay raises can be negotiated, but Congress can vote to cap those raises.

Federal workers thrive without collective bargaining, eh? By what standard do they mean thrive? The federal employees who do not have collective bargaining rights often times are higher paid management level jobs. These jobs typically pay less than private sector jobs with similar responsibilities. As for my own case, I worked a union job with the federal government, and it paid much less than the job I'm doing now in the private sector, even though the job is the same (I'm a seaman).