NPS Employee Challenges Federal Agency Decision Blocking Right to Vote Out AFGE Union
NPS Employee request for vote to oust AFGE union was denied after Federal Labor Relations Authority merged two units without employee consent
NPS Employee request for vote to oust AFGE union was denied after Federal Labor Relations Authority merged two units without employee consent
The CSRA statutorily imposes union monopoly bargaining over federal employee disciplinary procedures and other work rules.
Committee President Mark Mix: The Survey 2018 program repeatedly gave anti-Right to Work candidates like Sens. Joe Donnelly and Heidi Heitkamp opportunities to back away from their support for forced unionism. They didn’t take them. Public Alerted About Pro-Forced Dues…
David Shulkin, the VA secretary, is well aware that far too many VA employee hours are “being spent away from clinical duties and other duties” due to union “official time.” But his power to stop it is minimal. Nearly 350…
Put a group of Big Government union bosses in a room and they will inevitably push for more power, more dues money and more coerced unionism. That exactly what happened when President Obama created a board within the Office of Personnel Management.
(Source: March 2011 NRTWC Newsletter) Committee Calls on U.S. House Leaders to Block Union Power Grab On February 4, President Barack Obama's handpicked head of the Transportation Security Administration publicly announced he would help government union bosses grab monopoly-bargaining control over more than 40,000 airport screeners and other TSA employees. John Pistole, who was sworn in as TSA chief in July 2010, made the move shortly after Republican John Boehner (Ohio) replaced Big Labor Democrat Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) as speaker of the U.S. House. The changing of the guard at the House made it impossible, in all probability, for union lobbyists to ram through Congress legislation mandating union monopoly bargaining at the TSA. Therefore, in order for the Obama Administration to hand federal union officials what they wanted, Mr. Pistole had to act administratively. Agency Would Likely Become 'Less Efficient and Flexible' As a consequence of the Pistole edict, the honchos of one of two large government unions, either the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) or the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), could grab so-called "exclusive" representation power at the TSA within the next few weeks. If this happens, the already much-reviled federal agency will likely become even "less efficient and flexible," as National Review Associate Editor Robert Verbruggen pointed out in a February 11 commentary.