Federal Government is No Place for At-Will Employees

For more than 100 years, the Federal Managers Association (FMA) has advocated excellence in public service and supported efforts to promote management and invest in the federal workforce. After all, the federal workforce is charged with providing the congressionally-mandated services Americans rely on daily.

Consider what federal managers do each day. We ensure the safety of prescription medications and the food you eat. We care for our nation’s brave veterans. The federal government is also the largest employer of veterans, by a wide margin. Federal managers stand shoulder-to-shoulder to arm, equip and support America’s uniformed military at the shipyards, depots, bases, and overseas in combat zones. We make sure seniors and the disabled receive their social security payments and taxpayers receive tax returns as well, to name just a few of the indispensable services the federal government provides.

Todd Wells, Executive Director
Federal Managers Association

The members of the Federal Managers Association (FMA) remain steadfast in their desire to work with Congress and the President to identify more effective and cost-efficient ways to ensure our veterans receive the treatment they deserve. However, we are extremely concerned by the erosion of due process for federal employees included in the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act.

Don't cut federal worker benefits

Honolulu Star Advertiser

*The following was published in the April 15, 2015 edition*

Twenty years ago, on April 19, 1995, the Oklahoma City Alfred J. Murrah Federal Building was blown up by a truck bomb, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more for the sole crime of being federal employees serving their fellow Americans.

Currently, we have a federal budget proposal that continues the denigration of the federal community by reducing benefits to the tune of $318 billion on top of the $120 billion already given in an attempt to balance the budget on the backs of federal workers.