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the Deferred resignation didn't go as
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well or at least it didn't hit the
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targets that the government thought it
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might hit and probably for a couple of
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reasons one is that they may have
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underestimated the strong reaction of
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the unions and other organizations
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basically saying if you take this offer
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you're buying it to something that may
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not work out to your benefit they argued
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it was unfair illegal not thought
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brought out uh no legal basis for it and
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if you do it you might find yourself
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being without a job and without having
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any money so we don't have any idea how
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many people were affected by these
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arguments uh in the unions were in a
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course Consortium uh filing a lawsuit uh
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with a judge in state of
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Massachusetts so the resignation program
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was delayed it gave people an extra
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several days to sign up
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and that seemed to help in the sense
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that it went from about 50,000 until the
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end of the temporary restraining order
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so it got up to maybe 76 or 77,000
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people still less than the five to
1:14
10% that the government had estimated
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may take advantage of the program so
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76,000 is not a small number but there's
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further to go probably the best estimate
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is the government may be shooting for
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four a reduction of say 400,000 to
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500,000 people I haven't seen any
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estimates on what their overall goal is
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the defer resignation has come and gone
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the lawsuit filed by the unions failed
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uh and perhaps that was a surprise to a
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lot of people perhaps to the unions but
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the judge said that they didn't have
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standing and perhaps just as important
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there's a statutory provision for a
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union that has a labor relations issue
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under the civil service reform act they
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don't go directly into court there's a
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statutory process in this case it would
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have been going to the federal labor
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relations Authority they didn't do that
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and they said they had no direct
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interest in the program so they had no
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standing in any event he lifted the
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temporary restraining order and OPM
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ended the Deferred resignation within a
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short time after it was lifted so that's
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where we stand now on that
