Return to Article: Unions move to block implementation of new DHS personnel system
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Q of F, et al,
If they begin facing the same disruptions to life, pay the same. Until then, cry in your beer.
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Dave,
You weren't talking about screening procedures, you were talking about going away on a moment's notice, etc. As to your remarks about who gets screened more and who less, I have to say I agree with you there. Certainly anyone can take a bomb on a plane, and we shouldn't just pick on one group of people, but the fact is that one group of people is most likely to carry the bomb onboard in the current situation.
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Boo Hoo, Q of F.
I do feel for those poor folks who went to Alaska, not. Life is rough, but you still get to hassle black people, white people, oriental people, old people and children in the airports everyday. None of the previous groups had anything to do with 9/11; then I watch the Arab-looking people, who were the guilty ones, walk on by in the airports because they might feel discriminated against or singled out. If TSA was really doing their job they would be stereotyping and checking all those from the mideast and giving the rest of us a pass.
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Dear Dave and Co. - The way it's going, we ARE going to leave at a moment's notice to get shot at, live in holes in the field, etc. A group of TSA screeners was sent to Alaska on 3 hours' notice for 6 - 7 months; one person who had a disagreement with her supervisor came in the next day and found herself transferred to Colorado from Arizona. All hail Emperor Rumsfeld!
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dear civilian
The choice was yours. You could have or maybe still can join-up to support, protect, and maintain the lifestyle of ungrateful civilians in this country. You could leave your family on a moment's notice to get shot at (not see your family for extended periods of up to a year or more), live on packaged food (when the contractor decides it is safe to deliver some civilian), not be able to get clean for weeks at a time, and when you get back have some low life civilian tell you how hard they have it and how great you have it. Until you have been there and walked in our shoes you have no idea what-so-ever as to what we have been through and what we deserve. It looks great from what you think you see. Be a real hero and put your life on the line for your fellow Americans, and join up. Until you do your opinion stinks! Oh, yes I would like a pay raise also.
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To those who have implied that the US Military has some sort of special treatment with regard to massive paychecks, PX priveleges, military facility medical care, and excellent retirement benefits:
One of two things must be true... Either you are not qualified for military service (or you would have taken that great cushy highly compensated position)... OR you were never in the military (and why not - if not?).
Our military personnel deserve every good thing they get and a lot more. How you have tried to turn this around and blame the military is beyond me. You sound like those liberal newscasters on TV and the rest of the hate America crowd. If it wasn't for the US Military you would not even have the right to voice your idiotic opinions in public, even if you do so without identifying yourself. Regardless of what you may think - US Customs, the INS, the FBI, and/or any other federal agency have not kept you living in a free republic. It has been, and always will be, our military personnel who pay the price for America's freedom!
God bless our Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen! And God bless you Mr. OAKES for your service to this great nation!
Senior Special Agent DHS - ICE - OI Knoxville, Tennessee
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And "they" also can get shot or blown up; live in a hole in the ground for weeks or months at a time; work a 7 day week, with no holidays or days off; work around the clock; subsist in the field on those wonderful MRE's; work in 120 plus degree heat without access to air conditioning or showers; and so on and so forth. Even with the post exchanges and other "benefits", their salaries are much less than yours or mine. And the "free health care" is often substandard, compared to ours. The bottom line is, since you believe "they" have it so good, would you trade places with "them"?
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It is not only housing, health and shopping - they also have combat pay, far better retirements at much younger ages so they can double dip, they get gigantic signing bonuses just to take the job, they get educational benefits far beyond civilians, they get VA housing benefits and hiring preference, they get special prices from numerous businesses, they avoid state income taxes by declaration of residency, they have access to rock bottom hotel (housing) rates when they travel on vacation with their families, they have access to military air transport for vacations and on and on. It is time they stop getting and even with the current inbalance between military and civilian I think we have it about right. However, pay increase should be the same!
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Mr. Oakes--are you saying that civilians deserve lesser pay raises because in all other ways civilian and military employees are treated equally? I must have missed my free health care, nontaxable shopping, housing allowance . . .
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Considering how poorly the DHS transition has been conducted to date, it is no surprise that unions are fighting HRMax. To date, DHS has proven itself unable to meet many of the basic leadership and management requirements for both operations and administrations, why would one think that the new personnel system will be well implemented.
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Yesterday's news contained an impassioned plea by NTEU officials for pay parity in the 2006 budget between military personnel and government civilian employees because the civilian employees work "...side by side with military personnel for the same government." How hypocritical. When NTEU leadership supports work rules and conditions of employment for NTEU members that are identical to those that apply to military personnel, I will support pay parity. Until that time, the troops deserve the larger pay raises.
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Go, go, Colleen!
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