NATIONAL UNION PRESIDENT BARS STAFF FEDSMILL INFORMATION

That’s right.  We have been hit with what amounts to a “gag order.”   We have been posting  Fedsmill pieces for almost 13 years trying to make sure union reps get information that their own union might not publicize, e.g., about casess other unions win. But for the first time in those 13 years a national union is censoring any e-mail alert from Fedsmill to its national staff.  That union’s staffers will not get timely alerted to new legal precedents that their management counterparts, who read our pages, get. Moreover, by making it harder for staff to get information they use in their jobs, the change is likely a ULP if  implemented unilaterally. We are not going to reveal which union it is, although the information may seep out from other sources.  But what we will do is eliminate over a dozen of the national unions that represent federal employees to make your analysis easier. See the list below.

AFSA

AFSCME

AFGE

ACT

CREA

IFPTE

NFFE

NAGE

NATCA

NLRBU

PASS

POPA

SEIU

Have you figured it out yet?

Here’s hoping that local union officals who receive our alerts help their union staff colleagues by passing our emails on to them. They can also remind staff that they can signup using their personal emails to continue to get alerts.