Category Archives: FLRA
IFPTE ASSEMBLES FREE TRAINING POWERPOINTS PowerPoint presentations have become the work horse of nearly every training session. They make the presenter and union president look professional, they focus everyone in the room on the same message at the same time, … Continue reading
PIZZELLA AGHAST OVER 76 YEAR OLD PRECEDENT An ALJ found an agency discriminated against an employee when it denied her request to telework from home while she recovered from a broken ankle. When the judge failed to require the agency … Continue reading
PIZZELLA’S POMPOSITY Newly-minted Member Pizzella has launched his FLRA career by largely lecturing the labor-management community on his loyalty to the fight against government waste. His latest sermonette (delivered as a concurring opinion in AFGE, 67 FLRA 218) condemns an AFGE local … Continue reading
A RESPONSE TO PATRICK PIZZELLA AND THE BROTHERS Patrick Pizzella is the newest member of the FLRA, filling the minority party seat. Yesterday, he signed his first decision (AFGE, 67 FLRA 107) and did something quite strange. After agreeing with the … Continue reading
FEDSMILL’S PARTICULARIZED NEED FORM While science’s two-decade long, multi-billion dollar search for the Higgs-Boson particle ended in success (and according to some putting man virtually face-to-face with god), the quest for particularized need has proven more challenging than that for … Continue reading
ULP SETTLEMENT ALERTS PAGE When unions file ULP charges with the FLRA Office of the General Counsel, that office tries to settle a case before it takes the case to an Administrative Law Judge. When the GC gets a good … Continue reading
PITY POOR ALJ SHAPIRO The Social Security Administration fired one of its administrative law judges, Mark Shapiro, for failing to produce at least 500 decisions a year. (The preferred target is 700.) That is two a day if he only … Continue reading
BRAVO, FLRA, YOU HAVE COME A LONG WAY!!! We just took a look at the latest version of the Authority’s annual report and what a difference it shows between how well the FLRA is managed today under Carol Waller Pope … Continue reading
WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR One of the great lines from film is the Animal House passage where one of the frat boys declares that nothing is over until the frat declares it over—just like it wasn’t over for … Continue reading