collective bargaining
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US attorneys asked the U.S. Court of Appeals, which last week overturned a lower court's 2018 decision to invalidate key provisions of the president's three workforce executive orders, to allow their immediate enforcement.
July 24, 2019 -
Also in today's Federal Newscast, USDA is facing more congressional backlash for its plans to relocate two research bureaus to Kansas City, and the DoD Inspector General says former Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White misused her subordinates’ time.
July 19, 2019 -
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit overturned a lower court's decision on the President's workforce executive orders, but it also delayed lifting the injunction of the EOs.
July 18, 2019 -
Jeff Neal argues that executive orders against collective bargaining and flip-flopping FLRA majorities are not the way to make fundamental changes in civil service policy.
July 17, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Mark Esper is poised to become the next Defense secretary. If he’s confirmed, one of his first jobs will be to help fill the rest of the vacant politically-appointed positions in the Pentagon.
July 17, 2019 -
A federal judge invalidated nine provisions of the President’s workforce executive orders in a ruling last August. But the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned that decision Tuesday.
July 16, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Federal Labor Relations Authority and OPM said a 2018 Supreme Court decision opens up existing law to a new interpretation.
July 15, 2019 -
More than half the Social Security workforce is crabby over contracts.
June 26, 2019 -
A newly formed collective bargaining unit representing employees at the Agriculture Department's Economic Research Service has demanded USDA delay any relocations to the Kansas City region until it bargains over the move.
June 19, 2019 -
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers say they're "deeply concerned" by a series of new bargaining proposals from the Department of Veterans Affairs and urged VA to negotiate in good faith with the American Federation of Government Employees.
June 10, 2019 -
The Pentagon said it has begun a 30-day "consultative period" with its labor unions over the conditions of its planned transfer of 1,200 IT workers to the Defense Information Systems Agency.
June 10, 2019 -
The Federal Service Impasses Panel has weighed in another labor-management dispute, rewriting portions of a collective bargaining agreement between the Social Security Administration and the American Federation of Government Employees.
June 05, 2019 -
An arbitration panel decided mostly against the American Federation of Government Employees in an impasse with Social Security.
June 05, 2019 -
Acknowledging recent decisions may suggest otherwise, the chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority said the agency has no "anti-union bias."
June 05, 2019 -
The House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on Monday easily cleared its 2020 funding bill, which includes a 3.1% federal pay raise for civilian employees.
June 03, 2019