Category Archives: FLRA
FROM THEIR LIPS TO GOD’S EARS Without triggering a theological inquisition about whether God has ears or even more fundamental questions, I want to share with you the latest Federal Court of Appeals decision blocking Trump’s Executive Order to kill … Continue reading
FREE ONLINE LABOR RELATIONS TRAINING The FLRA staff has three online training programs coming up this month. If interested, click on the course’s link and sign up. The course are as follows: 7116(a)(1)/(b)(1), 7116(a)(2) and (4), Flagrant Misconduct and Duty … Continue reading
HOW YOUR UNION’S LEADER SOLD YOU OUT FOR BEANS Any federal union activist with two IQ points to rub together has known since the Reagan era that there are two big holes in the labor law. First, the White House … Continue reading
WHEN WILL COURTS REVIEW FLRA’S EXCEPTION DECISION INVOLVING A GRIEVANCE? Courts generally are not permitted to review the Authority’s decisions involving exceptions to grievance arbitration awards. But there is an exception to that rule, i.e., when the FLRA exception decision … Continue reading
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FIRE UP THOSE NEGOTIABILITY DISPUTES NOW During the last Trump administration his FLRA appointees savaged decades of FLRA and judicial case law. They not only overturned about 20 important precedents, but they did so by replacing reasonably objective criteria for … Continue reading
FLRA, RETIREES & OTHER FORMER EMPLOYEES Can the FLRA help retired or other former employees when an agency or a union interferes with that person’s current or potential employment? For example, suppose a federal agency negotiated a settlement with an … Continue reading
RETURNING TO A WORKABLE 7116(d) FORUM SELECTION ANALYSIS Among the precedents the two Trump FLRA appointees destroyed was the Authority’s decades-long approach to objectively deciding whether a union can take “two bites at the apple.” This post is about how … Continue reading
RETURNING TO A WORKABLE 7116(d) FORUM SELECTION ANALYSIS What if you want to file a grievance and a ULP with FLRA over the same incident? For example, suppose you want to challenge a member’s suspension as a violation of the … Continue reading
PAY ATTENTION TO DUBESTER’S BAT SIGNAL Ernest Dubester led a one-man unprecedented campaign to stop what was probably the most unethical reign of anti-union revenge the FLRA ever witnessed. But he was only one vote against those of two others … Continue reading