RESOLUTION TO SUSPEND THE CONTRACTING OUT OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEE JOBS

Whereas through massive increases In contracting out, important government services performed by reliable and experienced unionized federal employees are being dumped into a vast and dangerous swamp of waste, fraud, and abuse;

Whereas if the Congress doesn't act soon, the rest of the government will slowly sink into that swamp and become just as ineffective, inefficient, and unaccountable as the part that has already been contracted out,

Whereas numerous academic and government studies have documented the costoverruns and poor performance of private contractors allowed to run amok thanks to poor or non-existent contract administration;

Whereas the Congressional auditors at the General Accounting Office (GAO) have admitted that they cannot prove that the government's contracting out has been beneficial to taxpayers,

Whereas the Administration continues to race ahead nonetheless, proposing to "compete" the jobs of at least 230,000 unionized federal employees over the next five years;

Therefore, be it resolved that _____________________________ demands that the Congress impose a suspension of all contracting out at all federal agencies at least until the actual costs and true consequences of contracting out are known.

Therefore, be it further resolved that the suspension should last until all of the following conditions have been met:

1. The Administration must prove that contracting out actually makes the federal government more, not less efficient.
2. Work performed by contractors must be subjected to the same public-private competition as work performed by unionized federal employees.
3. No work that is essential to any agencies' missions may ever be subjected to public-private competition -let alone contracted out.
4. Work may never be converted to private sector performance without public-private competition.
5. Work may never be converted to private sector performance because of arbitrary in-house personnel ceilings.
6. Agencies must be required to keep track of the number of contractor employees in exactly the same ways they keep track of federal employees.
7. Any savings from contracting out must not come from undercutting unionized federal employees on their pay and benefits.

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