AFGE President tells U.S. President, “Get the hell out of our way…” in the union’s organizing efforts at Transportation Security Administration. As unions generally start putting proposals on the table about his Executive Order, questions arise about who is minding the store.
FLRA has announced focus group meetings for the next two weeks to prepare for revising its arbitration regulations. The author strongly recommends that practitioners attend and speak up at these gatherings. The author suggests you take the law, the applicable FLRA Regulations and some suggested questions if you decide to go.
In reviewing what, on the surface, appears an innocuous change to the FLRA General Counsel’s Regulations, the author suggests there may be more involved.
The Author provides a draft Agency proposal for an arbitration article to bring arbitration up to date. He’s betting Agency representatives will endorse this proposal.
“Openness in government” may be a matter of form over substance in some cases. Here is what author Bob Gilson found when searching through the new datasets posted by the FLRA in its attempt to meet the President’s commitment “to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.”
The price paid for the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978’s merit pay, senior executive service and performance based removals was Federal employee labor relations being controlled by a law instead of an executive order. It was a lousy trade in the view of some. So as we approach the next great civil service reform, what’s on the table?
What will happen in federal labor and employee relations in 2010? Here are a few predictions from an expert in the field.
It’s that time of year and labor and employee relations in 2009 did not disappoint the observer of silly, scary or simply crazy events. As we look at last year, you decide whether things went up or downhill as the year progressed.
Federal Agencies have lots to do in a short time to meet the requirements of the new Executive Order creating labor-management forums. The author’s wife, a retired Federal Human Resources Director, is betting him that Agencies will never meet the deadlines set by the Order for submitting plans. The author looks at requirements Agencies face.
The President issued an Executive Order that calls for a expanding negotiations between Agencies and their unions.
