CONGRATS TO AFGE LEADERS AT SSA ON TELEWORK MANEUVER

They just signed a deal with SSA management to keep telework in place for six more years.  While that is not fool-proof protection against Shadow President Musk’s ranting about forcing all feds back to their offices, it is the next best thing.  Management will be required to bargain with unions before they can terminate telework, whether the union has a contract guarantee of it or not. But a contract like this will give the union extra arguments to insist that telework stays in place at least until the contract terminates.  Under the FLRA’s latest decision about the remedy for when an agency unilaterally terminates telework, a premature change would cost agencies dearly. Click here.