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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, although the agency has not yet reversed the ruling. Last February, the FLRA announced that it would chang...

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 Agency's 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 a move that experts say could position the agency well in its efforts to reassert itself. The list...

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 Nearly two months after President Biden rescinded a series of Trump administration anti-union directives and instructed federal agencies to bargain with labor groups over a much wider scope of ...

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 Senate as well as labor and advocacy groups in calling for President Biden to oust the leaders of ...

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 Kelley on Sunday announced an expansive agenda to undo the Trump administration’s workforce polic...