Federal agencies employ some of the best and brightest individuals this country has to offer. Every day federal Civil Servants provide essentially care for veterans, keep airports running safely and smoothly. We are grateful for their diligence and are interested in their ideas and concerns. The important work of our federal employees is obstructed by a culture that rewards attendance over initiative, one that does not differentiate between poor performers and those who excel. In fact, it is the high performing often complain that under performing count parts harm work place moral and raise concerns that compensation is not appropriately related to performance. For instance, the office of Personnel Management 2016 federal Employee Viewpoint survey found that a mere 22 of employees agreed with this statement. Pay raises depend on how well employees perform their jobs. While the government fails to appropriately compensate employees based on performance managers and Agency Executive face
For lost people. Reporter how will it cause inconvenience for you . Oh, man, boy, i aint going to say that on camera. Youre not real happy about. Know it will cause me a lot of inconvenience. Im active person y stay in the house. With the strike will keep me in the house. Definitely looking hopefully they come up with an agreement before tonight. If not, who knows. Reporter septa really urging people to start planning for this. We do know the Bike Share Program being expand. Uber being expanded. Contingency plans are being made for University City as well as for the school district. Excused absences will be allowed so really a lot of planning is going into this but again negotiations continue to be underway at this hour. No real news to report. We will have more in about an hour from now. Guys, back to you. So much to talk about. All right, thank much, brad. Lots of hospitals and schools do have a contingency plan should septa workers strike. You can get all the breaking details on our
Endeavor and way to give an anchor to the school and program coming off one of the finest seasons. Proponents say the additional retailers as a way to enhance the neighborhood but opposing residents fear what big changes and mega construction could mean to this north philadelphia community. Part of it is because temple is so far into planning, or even the conversation about the possibility, and has not included the community in this conversation. Reporter last month the University Board of trustees approved a milliondollar Feasibility Study to see if it would even be possible to bring a stadium here to this area we will go back inside and have details for you tonight. Reporting live from north philadelphia, alexandria hoff for cbs3 Eyewitness News. All right alex, thanks very much. Turning to weather, another day, another record down. We broke 80 again this afternoon. It is march. So will the high temperatures last . That is the question. Meteorologist kate bilo is outside on the sky d
Be in the mess were in right now. Thank you. Host ralphs comments from north carolina. Twitter australia is losing its own Auto Industry. Projections show 2016 will be the end of. . Hat do we know guest the Australian Government has been giving subsidies to the companies to keep them in and gmia and with ford announcing they are going to withdraw production, it goes to the idea that auto production has been part of national pride. There are other intangibles beyond the direct jobs created. The country has been trying to keep production, but it is not like it will be successful. T from boring file clerk why can we not just invent Something Better than the conventional car. This is old technology. Can you talk about new technology you will look for this week . The car, the engine, is basically the same technology that was introduced 150 years ago. It has certainly gotten lighter, and we are going further. Fuelcell vehicles, those running on Hydrogen Fuel cells, we will see that, plug in
Bessie Goldsmith, in “The Townswoman’s Andover,” reminds us that early travel was mostly by river and by horse. As the population grew, it became necessary to build roads through private