GAG ORDERS

In our experience, gag orders or anything like that used to stop someone from talking about “bad stuff” that may be happening at the job are terrible.  FEDSWEEK just wrote a short piece on how gag orders imposed on federal employees can violate the law.  If your co-workers are under a formal order—or even an unwritten practice/expectation in a single work unit—barring them from discussing problems with anyone other than their supervisor, then the union should think seriously about going after it by teaming up with the office of Special Counsel.  The FEDSWEK piece is entitled, “OSC Stresses Restrictions on ‘Gag Orders’ against Federal Employees.”