Category Archives: Union Administration
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
WOULD E-HARMONY MATCH NFFE WITH NTEU, AFGE OR IAMAW? (Revised) Match-making has gone high tech in nearly every corner of society. Corporations long ago saw the value of strategic planning algorithms to find acquisitions, drive mergers, sell business lines, etc. At … Continue reading
WHO WERE THE HIGHEST PAID UNION OFFICIALS? A few weeks ago we compared the four major federal sector unions to one another with a particular focus on how each spends its dues money. (See “Compare AFGE, NATCA, NFFE & NTEU … Continue reading
WHY DOESN’T MY UNION DO THIS? OPM does it. The Department of Labor and a number of federal Labor Relations shops do it too. So why don’t unions provide the same simple automated service to its local leaders? Here is … Continue reading
COMPARE AFGE, NATCA, NFFE & NTEU BY THE NUMBERS We have not made it a secret that we think that unions should be run as efficiently as any business. In fact, we wish that Goldman Sachs and other investment bankers … Continue reading