Jimmy Carter in Unintimidated, by Scott Walker

On Jobs: 1978 Civil Service Reform Act limited collective bargaining

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had once said that "the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted in the public service." And ever since 1978, when President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Civil Service Reform Act, collective bargaining for federal employees has been severely limited. Today, federal workers cannot bargain for benefits or wages, and cannot be compelled to join a union or pay union dues. I don't recall Pres. Obama suggesting that they were being abused in any way, or lifting a finger to right this supposed injustice. To the contrary, Obama unilaterally froze their pay--and he didn't have to get permission from a union steward to do it. If limiting collective bargaining in WI constituted an "attack on unions," then why didn't the president champion giving collective bargaining powers to workers at the federal level? Source: Unintimidated, by Scott Walker, p.168-9 Nov 18, 2013

The above quotations are from Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge by Scott Walker and Marc Thiessen. Click here for other excerpts from Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge by Scott Walker and Marc Thiessen. Click here for other excerpts by Jimmy Carter. Click here for other excerpts by other Governors.
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