Author Archives: AdminUN
CONGRATS TO NATCA ON COLLABORATION A big tip of our hat to NATCA for developing several videos explaining how its collaboration with the FFA works. If you agency is struggling with the concept, these are a good source of ideas.
DO YOU USE FEDSMILL THESE 5 WAY? While we welcome those of you who just read our postings, we hope that most of you are squeezing everything out of Fedsmill.com that you can to build a strong labor-management process. Here … Continue reading
WE DO NOT ADVISE DOING THIS, BUT … Most union reps know that when a manager orders an employee to do something the employee had better do it no matter how wrong the order is. There is a collective bargaining … Continue reading
WHAT IF A CO-WORKER GETS YOU FIRED? Aside from hopefully momentary thoughts of physical revenge in the extreme, the average person may not realize that a childhood fable about a cat and chestnuts figures prominently in the answer. Have you … Continue reading
WHEN EMPLOYEES HAVE SEIZURES Whether a fed’s job involves driving, operating equipment or enforcing the law, seizures create serious, if not life-threatening, risks for the employee, co-workers, employer and public. So, what choice does an employer have when an employee … Continue reading
TEST YOURSELF: HOURS OF WORK {Revised} In this fictional scenario the employees regularly work from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. processing on-line applications for federal benefits. Each night the headquarters computer center downloads an inventory of cases to each employee’s … Continue reading
WHO IS KILLING THE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES’ GOLDEN GOOSE? {Corrected Version} [Hint: Shakespeare recognized them early as a threat and recommended their immediate execution.] There is a golden goose tucked away in the federal civil service law that entitles federal employees … Continue reading
WHEN UNIONS GET PIGGISH If you have read Fedsmill.com for a while we hope the message has come through that we are not unquestioning allies of either unions or management. Admittedly, we started out very pro-union, but we were never … Continue reading
WHAT IS A GRIEVANCE RECOVERY PERIOD? The FLRA has said that it “specifically distinguished between contractual back pay recovery periods and contractual time periods for filing grievances.” Consequently, we practitioners had better know the difference, particularly negotiators when they sit … Continue reading