Union Role a Key

Meanwhile, federal unions have argued before the federal district court in Washington, D.C. that the system exceeds DoD’s legal authority in several areas, most prominently in restriction union bargaining rights and in revamping appeals procedures and creating certain classes of offenses for which firing will be mandatory. A separate suit involving similar issues at the Department of Homeland Security has resulted in an injunction that effectively has stalled the entire DHS system since many elements of that system, including the pay for performance elements, cannot be finalized until the scope of union involvement in the design is settled. Whether to issue such an order in the DoD suit, or the scope of such an order, is up to the judge’s discretion—a decision that almost certainly would be appealed by the losing side. However, it apparently is no coincidence that the activities still in Spiral 1.1 tend to be non-organized offices.