February may be the shortest month of the year, but the challenges facing the federal community are not small.
Efforts to weaken civil service protections, reduce earned retirement and health benefits, and politicize the federal workforce continues in Congress and across the country.
Through strategic political engagement, the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association supports candidates and lawmakers who understand the value of a professional, nonpartisan civil service and who are willing to stand up for federal employees and retirees.
As Americans, the federal employee is not your enemy. When does weather forecasting, carrying the mail or protecting our natural resources become a political issue? Here in Delaware, federal employees are working in many capacities, including protecting our food, helping farmers purchase seed, delivering mail, regulating transportation safety and more. State, local and municipal employees are providing essential services too.
Please do not believe what you read about the lazy, incompetent federal, state local or municipal employee. Many would like all to think that dedicated public sector employees are the enemy. Public sector employees have taken an oath to serve and help to build and maintain our quality of life through many services we enjoy. There must be a reason people, even with all the acrimony, are still willing to risk all and their lives to come to the United States.
Please thank your federal employee when they warn of an impending adverse weather event, the postal employee that delivers your mail-order prescription, the TSA employee or the federal motor carrier inspector that takes unsafe trucks off the road.
We are still in a partial government shutdown and many employees in one of the largest cabinet agencies are still working without pay.
NARFE supports the federal workforce, and our members both active and retired continue to do service. If part of the federal community, please become a member. Here in Delaware, we have five chapters. We are truly nonpartisan. I have been able to meet with both sides of the political spectrum and can personally say legislators at the federal and state level care and are looking to serve.
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