This is disturbing...FTP

[SVTNorthTexas]

Are active military able to form unions?

Nope, and I'm willing to bet that will never happen

[Craizie]

So why should other government employees be able to form unions?

[BLAKE]

So why should other government employees be able to form unions?

Military aren't employees, they're "property". Not in the strictest sense of the term, but they're not civilians either.

[Forever_frost]

So why should other government employees be able to form unions?

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.”
George Meany -- the former president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O -- in 1955.

Even President Franklin Roosevelt, a friend of private-sector unionism, drew a line when it came to government workers: "Meticulous attention," the president insisted in 1937, "should be paid to the special relations and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government....The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service." The reason? F.D.R. believed that "[a] strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to obstruct the operations of government until their demands are satisfied. Such action looking toward the paralysis of government by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable and intolerable."

http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-trouble-with-public-sector-unions

[SVTNorthTexas]

Military aren't employees, they're "property". Not in the strictest sense of the term, but they're not civilians either.

This.
I remember when I was going through the School Of Infantry after boot camp in the Marine Corps, we had one instructor tell us we couldn't get any tattoos during training. He said if we did we would be punishable under the UCMJ(Uniform Code Of Military Justice) for destruction of Government property.

Although none of us knew if he was blowing smoke up out asses or not we damn sure didn't go out and get a tattoo to test the theory. lol

[CexMashean]

We've got one big thread for Craiglist Deals and shit, what about one big thread for FTP?

[SS Junk]

We've got one big thread for Craiglist Deals and shit, what about one big thread for FTP?

I take it your OCD is once again making you twitch? Take your meds, dummy.

[Forever_frost]

This.
I remember when I was going through the School Of Infantry after boot camp in the Marine Corps, we had one instructor tell us we couldn't get any tattoos during training. He said if we did we would be punishable under the UCMJ(Uniform Code Of Military Justice) for destruction of Government property.

Although none of us knew if he was blowing smoke up out asses or not we damn sure didn't go out and get a tattoo to test the theory. lol

Yep, same reason you have to ask permission to do anything in the military. You signed away minimum 8 years of your life away.

[Svo85.5]

Solid police work.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/authorities-police-respond-to-wrong-house-shoot-homeowner/

[Forever_frost]

Solid police work.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/authorit...oot-homeowner/

Always "administrative leave" never "Immediately arrested and pending charges while being held."