Archive for January, 2010

Thursday, January 28, 2010
(National Federation of Federal Employees)
In last night’s State of the Union address, President Obama proposed a three-year discretionary spending freeze on federal funding that is not related to national security. The freeze is proposed to take effect in Fiscal Year 2011.
A number of agencies and social programs are not impacted by [...]

Thursday, January 21, 2010
(National Federation of Federal Employees)
Yesterday, employees in the U.S. Forest Service Human Resources Management (HRM) department in Albuquerque, NM voted in favor of representation by the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE). Nearly 65% of the bargaining unit turned out to vote yesterday, a very high turnout for a union election.
“Yesterday’s victory [...]

Friday, January 15, 2010
(National Federation of Federal Employees)
Thursday, William R. Dougan, National President of the National Federation of Federal Employees, attended the White House Forum on Modernizing Government, an afternoon event focused on improving the efficiency of government services. Participating were some of the greatest minds in the federal and private sectors, including federal labor [...]

In our constant endeavor to provide the best possible representation to the RMA-KC bargaining unit members, we have sent the following email to the Associate Deputy Administrator in Kansas City:
“We are very pleased about President Obama’s initiative to establish labor-management councils and build and develop cooperative relationship between Management and the Unions in the Federal [...]