... out an interesting fact - 51% of union members are government workers, according to the most recent data, an all-time high. And I assumed General Motors and Chrysler Employees are included, ostensibly, in the private sector. Union membership has ... completely different story in the public sector: 37.6% of government employees belong to unions, up almost a percentage point since last ...

After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans hired a “Recovery Czar” at $475,000 a year. As you might expect in Ray Nagin’s “Chocolate City”, the job went to a black man, Ed Blakely. He’s no longer on the job, and a lot of folks in New Orleans seem to think they didn’t get much in

The Environmental Protection Agency has threatened two of its lawyers regarding their online activity, including posting a video on YouTube.  The online material is allegedly critical of the administration’s approach to climate change. The agency, citing federal policies, told the two lawyers, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, who are married and based in San Francisco, that they could ...

Arab News reports that Saudi government employees will receive a 15% raise, staged over the next three years. The ... around 5%/year in the country. This is the second salary raise state employees will have received since King Abdullah ascended the throne. It was ... employees are excluded, so it appears that this applies to all state employees. Govt employees to receive 15 percent inflation allowance P ...

... be. We have contractors who rip us off, we have incompetence at all levels. It takes twice as many (or more) employees to do a job than in the civilian world. We have attitude problems at all levels ... fired from most jobs....but of course you can't fire someone in the military very easily. Most (not all) government employees at the office level I would not hire for a civilian job, they ...

... at AlterNet or Huffington Post, you know, where they almost never document anything they say? But I digress. As I look at the chart, I see the peak of the government support came in 2007, during the end of the "Satan years". This ... inefficiency, at the DMV (RMV if you're in Mass)? Ever had a snafu there? Government employees hard at work. Ever have to deal with the IRS? There's ...