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Scuttling The Federal Labor Relations Authority
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FLRA
IRS
Mon Jun 9, 2008 9:30 AM
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This is addressed to Mr. Ferris.
You have clearly shown that the FLRA is not functioning properly. You appear to have also shown that this is true since the election of President Bush. It will continue this way because that is how the Bush cronies want it to work except that they want their decisions upheld.
I would rather wait until after the next election before making a decision about the FLRA. If the radical Republicans win and the FLRA continues to be political, then your point is taken. If under any administration, the FLRA does its job properly, and becomes semi judicial, then I would rather keep it in existence.
All Part of a Strategy
DOD
Mon Jun 9, 2008 9:35 AM
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It's all part of a cynical & determined neo-con & anti-government strategy, to eliminate government, at any cost!! Need I say more??
FLRA
FAA
Mon Jun 9, 2008 9:41 AM
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The FLRA has become nothing more than a political football just like OSHA.
FLRA
IRS
Mon Jun 9, 2008 9:41 AM
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How very telling that your solution is to scuttle the FLRA. Perhaps the problem lies less with the agency than with the anti-labor political hacks that Bush has put in charge of it?
As long as there are management types with no regard for contracts or laws or much of anything aside from their own petty power grabs, unions need an impartial 3d party to adjudicate disputes. The problem has less to do with the "agency" than with the one-sided political nature of Bush's appointees. If they cannot apply the law correctly it is because they do not want to.
Buy a differnet ship
DoD
Mon Jun 9, 2008 9:50 AM
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The FLRA and all other Federal Agencies has and always will be highly politicized. Remove the politics and create a private, non-political process for resolving disputes. Great article, biased, but so what. Kudos to fedsmith for presenting the other perspective. We may not agree with what is said, but at least it is allowed to speak.
The Law Is the Culprit
DoD
Mon Jun 9, 2008 10:51 AM
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As the subject indicates, Congress gave the American people a lemon that cannot be subject to any lemon-laws-the CSRA-. The FLRA is cursed with administering it and will never succeed because of the inability of it to satisfy both labor and management at the same time.
Th fact that Feds are so well unionized compared with the privates speaks for itself. There is no disincentive to vote "union yes" as there is in the privats. The privates companies have a right to give the other side of the story to potential union voters. The Feds Agencies do not not. There is no price to pay of being a bargaining unit member in the Fed sector. There is in the Privates.
Finally, after 35 years publishing in the field, maybe Mr. Ferris needs to come indoors and dry out.
Re: The Law Is the Culprit
usda
Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:58 AM
A less powerful FLRA is automatically a bad thing?
AAFES
Mon Jun 9, 2008 11:00 AM
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I'm not sure that a less powerful FLRA is a bad thing, from a management standpoint.
You can certainly argue that the courts don't like many of the FLRA's decisions, and certainly many of them may be poor from labor's viewpoint, but any Management Labor Rep who has had to deal with an FLRA agent acting as a advocate for Labor will save his tears for something sad.