NYC construction worker: ‘We don’t get back pay when we get back to work’

NYC construction worker: ‘We don’t get back pay when we get back to work’

by WorldTribune Staff, January 27, 2019 A construction worker in New York City called in to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show on Jan. 22 to vent on lawmakers and the major media trotting out daily shows of sympathy for government workers who they portrayed as struggling mightily to get by due to the partial shutdown. “I’m […]

Trump executive orders sound alarm bells in Washington’s bureaucracy

Trump executive orders sound alarm bells in Washington’s bureaucracy

by WorldTribune Staff, May 27, 2018 President Donald Trump on May 25 signed executive orders making it easier to fire federal workers and demanding transparency in taxpayer-funded union activities. “These executive orders will make it easier for agencies to remove poor performing employees and ensure that taxpayer dollars are more efficiently used,” Andrew Bremberg, Trump’s […]

Six-figure salaries called ‘minimum wage’ for federal employees living near the ‘Swamp’

Six-figure salaries called ‘minimum wage’ for federal employees living near the ‘Swamp’

by WorldTribune Staff, December 29, 2017 The 2 million people working for the U.S. federal government are doing very well for themselves on the taxpayers’ dime, a government watchdog group said. The $100,000 paycheck is the new “minimum wage” for federal employees, Illinois-based Open the Books nonprofit group said in its new report “Mapping the […]