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The Author provides links to various Federal employee union guides prepared specifically for shop stewards. Supervisors and managers who must deal with union representatives and with such issues…
How is severance pay calculated for a federal employee?
The Author seeks to clarify for readers what is going on with various union petitions to represent TSA’s workforce or some part of it. FLRA’s regional director’s decision…
AFGE issued a press release stating that "TSA Administrator John Pistole met today with AFGE John Gage to discuss collective bargaining and other workplace issues." Does that meeting…
The author asks the reader to go with him through Alice’s looking glass for a tour of the world of human resources management in our nation’s capitol. Up…
A federal employee received a check for $383,600 as a public service award based on his work to expose and stop oil companies' underpayment of royalties. This led…
The American Federation of Government Employees announced that the FLRA would review its Regional Director’s decision to deny an election based on a precedent set by a prior…
However the political winds blow, negotiators representing a Federal Agency have the responsibility to advance the Agency’s interests at the bargaining table. The author offers some thoughts for…
Human resources specialists may want to take particular note of this article. The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has successfully prosecuted two human resources specialists accused of engaging…
In a case Fedsmith has been covering since 2007, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the Federal Labor Relations Authority’s efforts to impose its will on the…