Category Archives: Bargaining
TEST YOURSELF #1- The Late Bargaining Demand How do you respond when an LR specialist rejects your request to bargain over a management-proposed space change because your demand was a day or two late under the contract? Here are a … Continue reading →
Posted in Bargaining, Grievance/Arbitration, Test Yourself, ULPs
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Tagged Test Yourself
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DUBESTER CRITICIZES COVERED-BY CONCEPT FLRA Member DuBester launched his own five-prong attack on the infamous two-prong covered-by concept that has generated so much chaos since its creation. Writing a dissenting opinion in AFGE, SSA General Committee, 66 FLRA No. 108, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bargaining, Covered-by, DuBester, FLRA Dissent
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THREE BENCHMARK CONTRACTS JUST COMPLETED AFGE, NTEU, and NATCA all announced settlements for their major contracts in the last ten days. AFGE has wrapped up the core of the SSA contract; NTEU has concluded mid-term reopener revisions to its IRS … Continue reading →
WHEN UNIONS LIBEL MANAGEMENT More than a few contracts state that the union may not libel (or slander) any manager when using the agency’s internal communications systems. But what can management do if the union does cross the line. An … Continue reading →
Posted in Arbitration, Bargaining, Membership Building
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Tagged arbitrator, FLRA, Libel, Retraction, Slander, union
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OCTOMOM AND THE “COVERED-BY” BARGAINING DEFENSE Much of science is devoted to finding out where things came from, e.g., the universe, global warming, the Kardashians, etc. But there is no need to search very far for the origin of the … Continue reading →
Posted in Bargaining Law, Covered-by, FLRA, ULPs
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Tagged Covered-by, Harry Edwards, union
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HOW NTEU DEALS WITH RECLASSIFICATIONS Assume that management wants to change the series classification from one series to another without any change in the employees’ grade, work, or location. What can the union do about that given that it cannot … Continue reading →
ILLEGAL TELEWORK DEALS What do you call it when a bargaining unit employee asks her manager to allow her to telework, the manager agrees, and they work out the details of when, where, and under what conditions? “Illegal” is what … Continue reading →
Posted in Bargaining, Flexiplace, ULPs
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Tagged Bypass, Direct dealing, Flexiplace, FLRA, Telework
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POPA & NTEU LOWER EMPLOYEE PARKING COSTS Agencies are no longer regularly including free parking for employees in the buildings they rent. They save money by shifting the cost of daily parking to the employee. But here is how the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Negotiate, NTEU, POPA, Pre-tax parking, union
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FREE NEGOTIATIONS TRAINING VIDEOS Ye olde Internet is an amazing place to get help with almost anything, and teaching union leaders how to negotiate is one of its strong points. FEDSMILL.com advises that you start with Youtube.com.
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Tagged Dirty tricks, Negotiations training, Unions, Ury
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FSIP ORDERS AGENCY TO REBUILD AFGE OFFICE AND BREAK ROOM What would you do if the agency unilateral changed a break room into a conference room, replaced the union office with a new break room that was one-third the size … Continue reading →