Ed Welch, a long-term National Park Service employee, discusses the impact of recent funding cuts on park maintenance and employee job security. As president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 2058, he highlights the layoffs affecting probationary employees since the formation of DOGE, raising concerns over how these changes will affect the agency's operations and the workers' health benefits. Welch emphasizes the importance of humanizing employees, asserting they are dedicated individuals rather than mere cogs in the government machine.
Many employees who have been let go are newer to the National Park Service. A buyout offer is also still in progress.
What bothers me most is that we aren't cogs, we're human beings. We pay taxes.
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