FDR On Public Employee Unions

From this source, with thanks for Mark of Casting Pearls Before Swine:

"The desire of Government employees for fair and adequate pay, reasonable hours of work, safe and suitable working conditions, development of opportunities for advancement, facilities for fair and impartial consideration and review of grievances, and other objectives of a proper employee relations policy, is basically no different from that of employees in private industry. Organization on their part to present their views on such matters is both natural and logical, but meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government.

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters," - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

FDR's D-Day Speech & Prayer

Hat Tip: Flopping Aces

British IBA contributor, Ray Boyd, is, rightly, concerned with the America-centric remembrance of the D-Day Operation. He passed along this important information:

The facts are that there were 48,000 US troops participating in D-Day. The British troops numbered 52,000. Canadian troops numbered 14,000 on that day.

British sailors were responsible for the seaborne operation, the Royal Navy the only allied seaforce. Even the US landing craft were manned by British sailors.

The floating harbours, undersea fuel pipeline and other logistical operations were designed built and installed by British personnel.

Whilst the French would liked to have excluded Britain from yesterday's events in Normandy we must remember the facts, not the fiction - British forces predomindated in numbers in the D-day landings AND will not be written out of history.