It does blow my mind that unions are arguing for people who don’t want to be there to stay and risk it all. I mean jeez forcing people to work a job they hate is a WILD move

Cje95

And this, despite the unions spreading misinformation about what has been offered and what guarantees have been made.

At the outset, I thought they should do severance offers as a last resort, after instituting return to work or rescinding locality pay. However, seeing how this is playing out, I think this was the more ingenious order of operations: they created a bunch of uncertainty about people's future employment situations and then offered them an offramp.

Politics_And_Law

Over 40,000 Federal Workers Have Accepted Buyout Offer

And this, despite the unions spreading misinformation about what has been offered and what guarantees have been made.

At the outset, I thought they should do severance offers as a last resort, after instituting return to work or rescinding locality pay. However, seeing how this is playing out, I think this was the more ingenious order of operations: they created a bunch of uncertainty about people's future employment situations and then offered them an offramp.