As President Obama is inaugurated, the author suggests agencies should revisit their approaches to labor relations. He provides a list of ten things every Agency should be doing to get a better handle on its interests in a time of rising union expectations.
The MSPB issued a study urging agencies to involve employees early and often in decisions involving their work.
The author recaps FedSmith stories that its authors couldn’t have made up had they tried all year. These stories require no suspension of belief by the reader. All are provably true.
There was apparently a lively discussion last week at OPM which hosted a meeting between agency labor relations representatives and the FLRA transition team. The author highlights the gist of the meeting and provides bios of transition team members.
The exact origins of the current “Covered By” Doctrine are somewhat shrouded in the fog of early 1990s case law. Now that this doctrine has been fleshed out by subsequent FLRA and Court decisions, the author asks if it’s time for agency management to look at and, perhaps, take advantage of the opportunities the case law offers.
It is always fun to watch the pure silliness of some Washington reactions to events, in this case by the National Treasury Employees Union to President Bush’s recent Executive Order excluding certain organizations from the coverage of the Federal labor relations statute.
This is the second part of changes that Senator Barack Obama says will occur in agencies under his administration. In letters to AFGE’s National President, the future president outlines priorities for major departments during his term of office.
What changes will federal employees see in agencies under an Obama administration? In letters to AFGE’s National President, the future president outlines priorities for major departments during his term of office.
America has a President-Elect. Federal unions supported Barack Obama and are counting on him to reverse their fortunes after eight long years of President George Bush. What should they push to accomplish and what should their priorities be? The author provides some ideas on what might be coming in an Obama administration.
MSPB’s Chairman McPhie says “Alternative discipline is a great tool for supervisors to consider if they have an employee who is engaging in misconduct”.
