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Labor-management council holds first mee...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on March 2, 2010 | Comments Off
By STEPHEN LOSEY | Last Updated: February 26, 2010 Federaltimes.com Senior Obama administration and federal labor officials met today in the first attempt at forging labor-management partnerships at 200 federal agencies. A new National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations is overseeing the...
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Trust issues raised at first meeting of ...

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By Alyssa Rosenberg Govexec.com February 26, 2010 At the first meeting of a new national council on federal labor-management relations on Friday, participants debated how agencies should structure collaborative projects, and how to measure improvements in federal labor relations. Under an executive...
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Witnesses Weigh in on Bill to Hold Down ...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
Source: FederalDaily.com, February 24, 2010 Labor leaders, members of the administration, and healthcare and industry advocates took their case to the Hill Feb. 23 as they provided testimony on a bill that would increase oversight of how prices are set for prescription drugs provided to Federal Employees...
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Most NSPS Conversions to be Completed Ah...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
Source: FederalDaily.com February 23, 2010 DoD intends to waste little time in moving employees out of the National Security Personnel System, the department’s ill-fated pay-for-performance effort. The department announced that it was poised to begin moving most of the approximately 220,000 NSPS employees...
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AFGE Files Petition to Exclusively Repre...

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Hundreds Rally to Call for Collective Bargaining Rights for TSOs Washington, D.C., Feb. 23, 2010 – In a creative move reminiscent of its 2003 act to charter the first Transportation Security Administration Local, the American Federation of Government Employees yesterday filed a petition to hold a union...
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AFGE's Latest Wins...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
February 19, 2010 Transportation Security Agency AFGE launched several Legal Clinics around the country in an effort to provide immediate legal assistance to our Transportation Security Officers (TSOs). AFGE continues its fight for the collective bargaining rights for our TSO brothers and sisters. For...
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Negotiations Starting on 2011 Pay Raise:...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on February 2, 2010 | Comments Off
January 31, 2010 By Ralph Smith Source: Fedsmith.com Federal employees are now starting to see the results of the 2010 federal employee pay raise in their checks as the new year begins. Civilian employees received an average pay raise of 2% this year and the military received an average pay increase...
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Obama to propose 3-year freeze on ‘non...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on January 27, 2010 | Comments Off
By RICHARD WOLF January 26, 2010 Federaltimes.com
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Number of federal union workers rose sli...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on January 25, 2010 | Comments Off
By Ed O’Keefe Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 25, 2010 maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps The percentage of union members in the federal workforce essentially stayed flat in 2009 compared with the previous year, although the number of union members on...
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Pentagon taps career Navy executive to d...

Posted by admin in News You Can Use on January 25, 2010 | Comments Off
By Alyssa Rosenberg  Source: GovExec.com January 21, 2010   The Pentagon has tapped a Navy career senior executive to wind down the National Security Personnel System and to design a new performance management system for its civilian employees. “He’s coming in to a very tough job,”...
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