Author Archives: AdminUN

About AdminUN

FEDSMILL staff has over 40 years of federal sector labor relations experience on the union as well as management side of the table and even some time as a neutral.

Posted on June 18, 2026 by AdminUN

THE MANY LOGICAL FALLACIES OF JUDGE HARRY T. EDWARDS’  COVERED-BY DOCTRINE Federal Circuit Court Judge Edwards and I both took our high school lessons in logic, reasoning, proof, and bias in the little town of Uniondale, NY—named after a union … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 11, 2026 by AdminUN

REMEMBER THIS REMEDY We like to highlight employee and union victories where an employer is not simply ordered to cease and desist. Frankly, that kind of verdict is near worthless because it does not compensate the employee or union for … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 11, 2026 by AdminUN

A QUIZ: WHEN UNIONS’ RIGHTS COLLIDE Who is right and who is wrong in this situation where the bargaining rights of two unions collided in the parking lot?  IFPTE/NAIL reached a deal with the Navy Shipyard in Newport News over … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 3, 2026 by AdminUN

AGENCY PIP DISCRIMINATORY; EMPLOYEE REINSTATED A deaf/Hard of Hearing employee could read lips in one-on-one conversations, but needed an accommodation to participate in group conversations. Consequently, his performance suffered and the agency put him on a PIP, which ended in … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 3, 2026 by AdminUN

WHAT DID THIS UNION DO WRONG? Here are the facts.  See if you can figure out two things the union did wrong.  The agency had a practice of placing a guard at each of its strategically important locations around its … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 23, 2026 by AdminUN

NFFE’S CRUSADE FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM NFFE could have just let it slide as yet another act of insanity by a Trump appointee in an ever-growing line of them.  But we all owe the union thanks for taking on this fight … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 23, 2026 by AdminUN

INFERTILITY AND THE AGENCY’S LEGAL OBLIGATION We read a few employment law blogs each week and like to pass along those that might be of  interest to federal sector union leaders. The folks at the Ogletree Deakins Law Firm have … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 14, 2026 by AdminUN

PROBATIONER GETS FIVE YEARS BACK PAY PLUS She wasn’t asking a lot nor for anything that other feds have not requested thousands of times. Still in her probationary period, she asked for a reasonable accommodation and backed it up with … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 14, 2026 by AdminUN

THIS IS WHAT MERIT PROMOTION RACISM LOOKS LIKE We have reported on a number of cases where the EEOC found the agency’s promotion process to be irrational, nonsensical or worse.  Generally, that is based on scoring decisions that are outright … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 20, 2026 by AdminUN

USING THE BIBLE AS A HARASSMENT TOOL (While Secretary Hegseth is prone to confusing Quinton Tarantino with the word of God and Trump is preparing to read us all a bible passage, we thought it would be a good time … Continue reading →

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