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Unions Drop Challenge to FLRA Rule Making it Easier for Feds to Stop Paying Dues NTEU said it is exploring “other avenues” to reverse a controversial Trump-era decision to allow federal workers to cancel their union dues any time after one year, rather than at annual intervals. Federal employee unions last week dropped a federal lawsuit challenging the Federal Labor Relations Authority’s controversial decision to make it easier for federal workers to stop paying union dues, althou...

Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email OPM Appointments Mark a Radical Shift in Agencys Role The hiring of high-level executives from organized labor marks a return to federal employee unions having a seat at the table in the formulation of federal personnel policy. The Biden administration last week announced the appointment of half a dozen political officials to the Office of Personnel Management in...

Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email Unions Dog SSA Leadership over Perceived Inaction on Workforce Order More than a week after OPM issued guidance on reopening union contracts negotiated during the Trump administration, Social Security Administration officials are dragging their feet, union officials say. Nearly two months after President Biden rescinded a series of Trump administration anti-union...

Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email House Democrats Join Chorus Calling for Changes at Social Security The job security of the Trump-appointed administrator and deputy administrator of the Social Security Administration remains in doubt, as the Biden administration continues to oust holdover appointees elsewhere in the government. A group of senior House Democrats last week joined colleagues in the...

Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email Union Announces Boldest Agenda Yet to Strengthen Federal Employee Rights, Pay and Benefits The president of the nation’s largest federal employee union forecast a “two-year window” to undo former President Trump’s workforce policies and expand workers’ collective bargaining rights. American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett K...

Social Security Boss’ Job Status Unclear Following Inauguration The White House named Commissioner Andrew Saul among its list of “acting” agency officials, despite the fact that he has five years remaining in his term. The future of Andrew Saul as commissioner of the Social Security Administration was uncertain Thursday, after the Biden administration included his name on a list of “acting” agency officials and two key aides were replaced shortly after the new president’s in...

Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email Social Security Unions Urge Biden to Oust Agency Leadership on Day One Although most political appointees are expected to resign ahead of the president-elect’s inauguration next week, the two top employees at the Social Security Administration have terms that run until 2025. Leaders of two unions representing employees at the Social Security Administration on T...

Position where were passing along information. all i can tell them is if you can file for unemployment, file for unemployment. file for whatever social program is out there that can assist you. theres nothing internal within femas union or within the afge that we have right now that we can offer to the employees to offset this stop work. >> you know, as i wrap this up, is there an expression or something that youre using to get by every day or an adjective, adverb to help you? does anyone want t...

Potentially being fired if theyre not doing their work. thats all thats being attempted here. >> congressman there is a point here as well. this organization, the afge, endorsed hillary clinton for president in 2016. can this action be separated from politics at the end of the day? >> no, i think, again, we had a very successful tax reform package that passed recently thats giving more to the economy. in order to pay for that we need to make sure public employee unions are performing accordingly...

Unions are saying this amounts to an assault on civil servants. >> sarah westwood, thanks so much. lets learn more about what this means. >> we want to bring in u.s. senate candidate jeff diehl. hes former state co-chairman for the trump campaign in massachusetts as well. thank you so much. we appreciate you being here. first and foremost, if this is the presidents attempt to drain the swamp, we have jay david cox, another statement from him, the president of the afge who said this is more tha...