Category Archives: Negotiability

THE FLRA UPDATES ITS NEGOTIABILITY REGS, E-FILING SYSTEM, AND FORMS If you sit on a lot of bargaining teams and especially if you serve as the union’s chief spokesperson, this is important for you.  As the title states, FLRA has … Continue reading

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HOW FLRA SPECTACULARLY BOTCHED A CASE This was not a common case, but neither was it so unusual as to justify a wall-to-wall brain fry at FLRA. Here are the facts of DoDEA and ACEA, 72 FLRA 720 (2022). 1- FSIP … Continue reading

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NEGOTIATING THE 7106(b)(1) “NUMBERS” OF EMPLOYEES      Biden’s Order requires agencies to negotiate over the “numbers…of employees or positions assigned to any organizational subdivisions, work project or tour of duty.” About the only way to make a numbers proposal non-negotiable is … Continue reading

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NEGOTIATING OVER 7106(b)(1) “TYPES” OF EMPLOYEES This post is about unions’ newly bestowed right to negotiate over the “types… of employees or positions assigned to any organizational subdivision, work project or tour of duty.”  FLRA has ruled that the word … Continue reading

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