Suddenly, Democratic leaders across America are channeling their inner DOGE, ordering government workers back to the office in droves. On March 3, California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an order, calling for state workers to return to the office at least four (4) days a week.
The accompanying press release reads, in part,
Governor Gavin Newsom today issued an executive order requiring all agencies and departments within his Administration to update their hybrid telework policies to a default of at least four days per week by July 1, 2025.
You ask, that Gavin Newsom? Yes.
No active politician in America is more attuned to the direction of the prevailing political winds at any moment and, at present, they are blowing in from the right. Not everyone is happy, of course, with Newsom’s plan. The Sacramento Bee reported last week,
A protest led by scientists and other state employees Wednesday afternoon wasn’t as loud as one earlier this month. But the 100 or so workers who marched in downtown Sacramento carried the same angry message: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s return to office order needs to be defeated.
The Bee reports that some labor groups have filed legal challenges to the move.
In Democrat-controlled Atlanta, GA, city workers will have to return to the office at least 3 days a week, beginning April 10.
To be outdone, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has ordered state workers back in the office at least half the time (2 1/2 days per week?). Predictably, state workers are losing their minds. KNSI Radio reports,
The President of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees union [Megan Dayton] is voicing her displeasure with Governor Tim Walz’s abrupt return to office policy for state workers and is calling for an escalation within its membership to fight back.
The station goes on to report,
Dayton added the [Walz] move “reeks of Musk,” citing the decision as “eerily reminiscent of the disruptions our public servant counterparts are facing at the federal level.”
As Minnesota native son Bob Dylan wrote, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the winds blow.”
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