USDA staffers quit en masse, Trump eyes moving offices out of Dcc

Started by Solar, May 23, 2019, 05:56:44 PM

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Employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are quitting at a rapid clip as Secretary Sonny Perdue prepares to move forward with plans to relocate two offices far outside the Washington, D.C., Beltway.

Federal employees at the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) – two small but important agencies within the USDA – are unhappy with Perdue's plan, announced last August, to move the majority of their staff from current offices in the capital to an area closer the country's agricultural centers.

"This move does not serve a public purpose," Peter Winch, a representative for the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents ERS workers, told Fox News. "Employees don't want to move, and it doesn't make sense for them to move."

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Winch added that since ERS employees joined AFGE earlier this month, six employees have already quit their jobs with the government agency in response to the planned move. He said overall staffing is down to 209 from 300 during the Obama administration.

A Washington Post report cited an estimate that the ERS used to see roughly one "non-retirement" departure per month – but that pace has doubled since October. NIFA reportedly has also seen people leave.

Perdue said in a statement to Fox News that the move was meant "to improve performance and the services these agencies provide." The secretary of agriculture added that the planned move would bring the department's scientists closer to "stakeholders" and "customers" such as Midwest farmers.

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"It's been our goal to make USDA the most effective, efficient, and customer-focused department in the entire federal government," Perdue said. "We don't undertake these relocations lightly, and we are doing it to improve performance and the services these agencies provide."

Perdue added: "We will be placing important USDA resources closer to many stakeholders, most of whom live and work far from Washington, D.C. We will be saving money for the taxpayers and improving our ability to retain more employees in the long run."

The goal of the ERS, however, is to provide statistical information to lawmakers in Washington, while NIFA works to fund hundreds of millions of dollar annually in research in the agricultural sector.

Congressional Democrats are scrambling to try and block the move.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/usda-staffers-quit-en-masse-as-trump-administration-eyes-moving-offices-out-of-dc
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Quote from: Solar on May 23, 2019, 05:56:44 PM
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Employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are quitting at a rapid clip as Secretary Sonny Perdue prepares to move forward with plans to relocate two offices far outside the Washington, D.C., Beltway.

Federal employees at the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) – two small but important agencies within the USDA – are unhappy with Perdue's plan, announced last August, to move the majority of their staff from current offices in the capital to an area closer the country's agricultural centers.

"This move does not serve a public purpose," Peter Winch, a representative for the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents ERS workers, told Fox News. "Employees don't want to move, and it doesn't make sense for them to move."

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Winch added that since ERS employees joined AFGE earlier this month, six employees have already quit their jobs with the government agency in response to the planned move. He said overall staffing is down to 209 from 300 during the Obama administration.

A Washington Post report cited an estimate that the ERS used to see roughly one "non-retirement" departure per month – but that pace has doubled since October. NIFA reportedly has also seen people leave.

Perdue said in a statement to Fox News that the move was meant "to improve performance and the services these agencies provide." The secretary of agriculture added that the planned move would bring the department's scientists closer to "stakeholders" and "customers" such as Midwest farmers.

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"It's been our goal to make USDA the most effective, efficient, and customer-focused department in the entire federal government," Perdue said. "We don't undertake these relocations lightly, and we are doing it to improve performance and the services these agencies provide."

Perdue added: "We will be placing important USDA resources closer to many stakeholders, most of whom live and work far from Washington, D.C. We will be saving money for the taxpayers and improving our ability to retain more employees in the long run."

The goal of the ERS, however, is to provide statistical information to lawmakers in Washington, while NIFA works to fund hundreds of millions of dollar annually in research in the agricultural sector.

Congressional Democrats are scrambling to try and block the move.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/usda-staffers-quit-en-masse-as-trump-administration-eyes-moving-offices-out-of-dc

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Hey !!! How dare you move me out of my fancy office in DC, and my fancy house in Virginia and move me out to live next to (shudder) FARMERS.
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Quote from: mdgiles on May 24, 2019, 04:58:50 AM
Hey !!! How dare you move me out of my fancy office in DC, and my fancy house in Virginia and move me out to live next to (shudder) FARMERS.

They're going to be squealing louder than the pigs on the farms...
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Just think what this does to union membership? Having to hire folks from "Right to work" states.
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Quote from: mdgiles on May 24, 2019, 04:58:50 AM
Hey !!! How dare you move me out of my fancy office in DC, and my fancy house in Virginia and move me out to live next to (shudder) FARMERS.
Them city slickers have a whole lot to learn about becoming contrified!

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