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Washington, D.C.— A National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) survey of “Moms, Dads and Apple Pie Lovers” who work for the federal government shows conclusively that they “are overwhelmingly opposed to the administration’s new personnel proposal,” the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees today told the House Government Reform Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce and Agency Organization.

Testifying in opposition to the administration’s “Working for America Act (WFAA),” NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley took issue with the title of the committee’s hearing—“Mom, Apple Pie, and Working for America: Accountability and Rewards for the Federal Workforce,” calling it “off base.”

To prepare for the hearing, NTEU surveyed its members to serve up to committee members the views of frontline federal employees. Here is what nearly 400 feds said about WFAA:

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98% rejected the WFAA personnel system that gives managers the authority to determine who gets pay raises.

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85% said No when asked if their manager had the time or training to judge their performance.

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99% agreed that employees who have personal friendships with managers will most likely get the increases.

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99.5% said the WFAA system will not treat all employees fairly.

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81% said they like apple pie and 74% are moms or dads.

Kelley also announced formation of a new group called Moms and Dads and Other Federal Employees Determined to Stop the WFAA. Its acronym is MADFEDSWFAA. The NTEU leader promised that Congress “will be hearing more from them.”

NTEU is the largest independent federal employee union representing 150,000 federal employees in 30 federal agencies and departments.