The FLRA has announced the release of a training video for federal unions, managers and individual employees on labor-management forums, “how they can be integrated into the collective bargaining process using pre-decisional involvement, and on ways they can improve labor-management relations.”
The FLRA recently reinstated a labor-management forum with the union representing its own employees, including recommitting to involving the union with decisions on certain policies apart from the bargaining setting. Those practices do not expand the allowable scope of negotiation but do provide unions a greater say in workplace decisions.
Agency commitment to those practices has risen and fallen over the years depending on which party controls the White House, and even when in effect, there have been questions regarding exactly what topics would be covered, exactly what such policies obligate management to do, and how to measure the results. The Biden administration has strongly encouraged agencies to adopt those practices but has stopped short of mandating them.
The video is at flra.gov/resources-training/training/video-training.
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