Union Official Time: AFGE Proposes a Blank Check
The author says an AFGE official time proposal fails to address accountability or tracking of the time.
Official Time
The Politics (and Money) of Federal Union “Official Time”
In another dispute involving the union’s use of official time, FLRA backed off a stance taken in previous decision, reminding all of us again how important union institutional issues are to Federal unions and their friends among the “neutrals”. The author suggests that employee working conditions’ improvements take a back seat to union institutional issues again and that FLRA’s reversal is part of the politics of labor relations and clearly not part of the the law.
