Category Archives: Union Administration
MODEL LOCAL WEBSITES NFFE’s Local 1998 at the Passport Service, AFGE’s Councils in the Bureau of Prisons, HUD and VA, all qualify as models against any criteria. They have up to date news, helpful pages, easy to digest layouts, and … Continue reading
PRESIDENT KELLEY RETIRES FROM NTEU Colleen Kelley, a fixture around NTEU for decades, announced today that she will leave office this August. She first made an impact as president of the NTEU IRS chapter in Pittsburgh, PA where she nearly … Continue reading
WE REALLY LIKE THIS WEB SITE Although great web sites are not the cure for everything that ails unions, they can do a lot of good, such as A-Z topic pages. So, we like to point out examples of good … Continue reading
AFGE BOOSTS ITS FINANCIAL STRENGTH AFGE recently announced that it has paid off the mortgage on its headquarters building, located in a prime spot just a couple of blocks from the U.S. Congress in Washington, DC. Based on its DOL … Continue reading
MANIPULATING EXECUTIVE BOARD EXPERTISE While national union leaders are constantly asking agency managers to involve employees in workplace decisions, some leaders operate under constitutions that deliberately exclude the best local union leaders from also setting internal union policy. We can’t point … Continue reading
AFGE MAKES ANOTHER FUTURISTIC MOVE In order to establish a first class representational program a union needs a lot more than skilled reps to present cases and advise locals. It is just as vital that it have an excellent training … Continue reading
WHY CAN’T MY UNION DO THIS? (PART 2) Back on December 7, 2014 we posted a story with the same title as this one, minus the Part 2 reference. The message was the unions need to create user-friendly on-line information … Continue reading
SHOULD RETIREES SERVE ON UNION EXECUTIVE BOARDS? Here is a provision from the current Constitution of a federal employee union we hold in high regard: “A National and Regional officer who retires from the Federal government before their term of … Continue reading
BIG YEAR AHEAD FOR NTEU NTEU has a very big year ahead of it. It could be about to elect a new national president, its largest unit (IRS) will continue to get pummeled by Congressman Issa and others as part … Continue reading
CRITICIZING UNIONS Almost every time we write about a union in anything other than glowing terms we hear from a few folks, not many at all, that we should avoid criticizing unions in public, that union flaws should be kept … Continue reading