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Administration officials said the orders would give government
agencies greater ability to remove employees with "poor"
performance, get "better deals" in union contracts and require
federal employees with union responsibilities to spend less time
on union work.
"Today the president is fulfilling his promise to promote more
efficient government by reforming our civil service rules," said
Andrew Bremberg, director of the White House's Domestic Policy
Council, in a conference call with reporters.
"These executive orders will make it easier for agencies to
remove poor-performing employees and ensure that taxpayer
dollars are more efficiently used."
The American Federation of Government Employees said in a
statement that the moves intended to "strip federal employees of
their decades-old right to representation at the worksite" and
would hurt veterans, law enforcement officers and others.
"This administration seems hellbent on replacing a civil service
that works for all taxpayers with a political service that
serves at its whim,” the group's president, J. David Cox Sr.
said in a statement.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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