The agency will move forward with four regional offices, in Atlanta, Denver, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Image: Andrii Yalanskyi/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe FLRA has dropped its Collaboration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Program–which offered agencies and unions an informal channel to resolve negotiability disputes and arbitration exceptions pending before the agency—under a Trump administration executive order to eliminate offices that are not statutorily-mandated.
“CADRO services were always voluntary and at the discretion of the FLRA, as resources permitted,” it says, while other FLRA components “will continue to use ADR when appropriate, however there will no longer be a separate, dedicated FLRA office focusing exclusively on the use of ADR,” says a Federal Register notice.
The FLRA meanwhile announced the closing of its Chicago regional office “due to significant staff attrition (voluntary resignations and retirements) throughout the first eight months of 2025 and the impending expiration of the office’s lease in December 2025.”
That leaves the agency with four regional offices, in Atlanta, Denver, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The states covered by those offices are being realigned and the FLRA said it “expects no adverse effect on the quality or efficiency of case-handling to result from the closure.”
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