CBP TO VOTE ON UNION REPRESENTATION
Source: FedNews Online
Customs and Border Protection employees will soon select which union will be the agency’s sole representative.
The Federal Labor Relations Authority will mail ballots to approximately 21,000 eligible CBP employees May 9. Ballots must be returned by June 22, and the Authority will begin tallying votes June 27.
CBP employees will have three choices: the American Federation of Government Employees, the National Treasury Employees Union or no union. If no choice garners 50 percent of the votes, a runoff will feature the top two vote-getting options.
The Homeland Security Act of 2002 bundled 22 agencies into the Department of Homeland Security. Two of the those agencies — Customs Service, a part of the Department of Treasury, and Immigration and Naturalization Services, a Department of Justice agency — merged to form CBP.
Both unions have a foothold in CBP — AFGE represents mostly employees who entered the agency through DOJ and most NTEU members were one-time Treasury employees.
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