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FLRA Has a Quorum but Still No General Counsel

Importance of the FLRA

Deportation Officer
DHS/ICE
Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:41 AM

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Obviously, the FLRA is not important to the movers and shakers in DC. If it were, it would not be allowed to remain headless and essentially impotent for so long. Keeping the agency inactive is clearly calculated by the administration to prevent any decisioons being rendered. They don't want any action to be taklen so they understaff and uinderfund the agency. Would Social Security remain headless? or any other agency? No, of course not. Only the one that is supposed to be an impartial arbitrator of facts in employee and managment relations. It is a joke of an agency that follows the administrations whims rather than the law or even its own precedents.

Re: Importance of the FLRA

LR Specialist
Dod Agency
Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:07 AM
Your analysis is incorrect and your rage is misplaced. The administration nominated a new FLRA appointee as much as one year ago. The Senate just got around to it. So, based on your logic, perhaps it was the Democrats in the Senate who did not want the agency functioning by issuing decisions.

FLRA members

HR Consultant
been there/done that
Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:42 AM

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The law requires that at least one member of the Authority be from each party. Bush is not going to nominate a second Democrat and the Senate is not going to confirm a second Republican. Confirming Beck and Pope allows the Authority to function and leaves the issue of which party will have a majority on the Authority to the next Administration. I've worked some with Chad Bungard . He's an amiable fellow and the Senate did confirm him for his current job. However, his conervative background makes it unlikely that he'll ever be confirmed as the FLRA General Counsel.

FLRA

Diversity Manager
DOL
Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:15 PM

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Who cares non of their rulings have any impact so its an activity that should have been done away with a long time ago

Re: FLRA

Agent
IRS
Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:36 AM
That is simply untrue. Perhaps you would like the bias FSIP to do management's dirty work? I guess we know your political leanings.
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