Author Archives: AdminUN
$50 MILLION IN BACK PAY OR 210,000 DAYS OF RESTORED LEAVE OR OPTION 3? IRS has a tough decision to make. An arbitrator just ruled that when it furloughed employees for three days in 2013, it violated the law. But … Continue reading
HOW TO HACK INTO THE FEDERAL PROMOTION PROCESS Ten of millions are spent each year to ensure that federal promotions are based on merit factors, e.g., professionally developed, job-related criteria rationally related to the position to be filled. Laws have … Continue reading
WHY DOESN’T MY UNION DO THIS? OPM does it. The Department of Labor and a number of federal Labor Relations shops do it too. So why don’t unions provide the same simple automated service to its local leaders? Here is … Continue reading
COMPARE AFGE, NATCA, NFFE & NTEU BY THE NUMBERS We have not made it a secret that we think that unions should be run as efficiently as any business. In fact, we wish that Goldman Sachs and other investment bankers … Continue reading
WEIGHT DISCRIMINATION “AS HORRIBLE AND DEPRESSING AS EVER” Time Magazine just published a story about a new university study confirming the rampant presence of weight discrimination. We found it worth checking out and a good place to start a conversation … Continue reading
WHAT DO THE CHIEF HUMAN CAPITAL OFFICERS HAVE TO SAY? If you want to know, click into their web site every week or so to see. It is entitled CHCOC.gov and contains transmittals that have been sent around among them. … Continue reading
CONGRATS TO AFGE’S TSA COUNCIL We just noticed that the TSA council posted a Dept. of Labor report last month showing that it has over 15,000 members. That is great news for the employees of that unit, AFGE, and the rest … Continue reading
CRITICAL CONTRACT CLAUSES (#3) – Creative Arbitration Provisions Every federal sector contract has an arbitration clause, but a lot of them have not changed much in decades despite a raft of problems with the process, e.g., slow arbitrators, FLRA reversals … Continue reading
HOW MUCH IS AGED COMP TIME WORTH? FLRA and the Air Force have an on-going disagreement over something known as aged comp time, which is comp time that remains unused at the time that the agency regulations required it be … Continue reading
A FSIP DECISION TO REMEMBER Although this one is about an old case, it is one you are likely to never uncover if looking for ways to solve a ULP problem. Everyone knows that a union can pursue a ULP … Continue reading