To the editor: Doyle McManus makes the case against depriving the federal workforce of civil service protection. He fails to take care of the issue of terminate incompetent federal staff.
Federal staff are terminated at a far decrease fee than these within the personal sector. That is not a recent problem.
McManus additionally fails to say, per the American Federation of Authorities Workers, that greater than 1 million of the roughly 2 million civilian federal staff are union staff. By comparability, solely about 6% of personal sector staff are unionized.
I’m certain McManus feels justified in giving nonetheless one other warning about former President Trump’s plans for one more time period. However within the case of civil service safety, he may need cried wolf as soon as too typically.
George Zwerdling, Carpinteria
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To the editor: I very a lot appreciated McManus’ column in assist of the federal civil service.
What Trump calls the “deep state” is basically made up of a whole bunch of hundreds of anonymous individuals from all walks of life who present so many useful providers to the American individuals. All of us depend on the professionalism and even-handedness of those profession staff who perform the mandates of each administration, be it Democratic or Republican, no matter their private political views.
However Trump doesn’t worth an apolitical method. He values subservience and is blinded by a retributive outlook that goes past partisanship and guarantees to widen the divides in our nation.
The civil service system represented a conquer the fancy of the previous spoils system, the place election winners had been anticipated to reward their supporters with authorities jobs. It got here into being partly on account of the assassination of President James A. Garfield by a disgruntled workplace seeker in 1881.
The civil service system, which has served the nation properly for greater than 100 years, represents a triumph of even-handed authorities. Trump is a chaos agent and never the suitable selection for anybody who values professionalism over favor.
Frank Albers, Seal Seashore
