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Draft Executive Order on Federal Labor Relations (Oct. 1, 2009)

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Appeals Officer
IRS
Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:19 PM

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I am a union elected official, and I worked hard to help elect President Obama, and I know that I was not alone in that effort. Federal employees got behind the effort to elect the President, and the new Congress.

I confess that I liked the earlier drafts of the executive order that required bargaining over the permissive topics. It seems the drafts are progressively weaker, at least from the employee perspective. I hope we get an oder soon, or the whole thing may just evaporate into a wisp of kum-byah smoke.

While I'm not ready to launch an attack at my President, I will admit to being less than enthused at a smaller than expected pay raise (whatever happened to pay parity?), and with the administration's inexplicable desire to continue to talk about the discredited pay for performance system. Now the executive order seems to be a candidate for watering down. Not change I can believe in, at least to this point. Eight years is a long time, though!

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RN Union V.P.
DVA
Mon Nov 9, 2009 9:39 AM

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Good Luck. At our facility HR is wiling to go to arbitration over Donning and Doffing of Police Uniforms. This is a 30 year old issue already resolved in the courts.
The last person to be involved in decision making at my facility is the front line staff; and from what I have heard this practice is DVA wide. The main problem I see with Gov leadership is that they may be skilled in their specific departments; to perform specific duties related to their jobs, but they come to the management table with Zero Leadership training to include problem solving skills related to group dynamic and zero leadership skills training. Anyway U can C where I am going. Decentralization of decision making is Managements biggest fear when they should be embracing it. My facility is developing a program called Shared Governance; the program leadership is top heavy with management officials. Go figure, what a surprise. Partnership was a paper product 10 years ago, that will not change any time soon.
Joe

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