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May 06, 2024
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AFGE filed an unfair labor practice charge against the National Park Service (NPS) for declaring they would impose anti-worker management directives on NPS employees nationwide. Several of the directives mirror those contained in three executive orders issued by the Trump administration that were largely ruled illegal by a federal judge.
Continuing a pattern of trampling on federal employees’ rights and ignoring the law to dismantle decades of prior agreements between our union and previous administrations, the Trump administration and NPS management refused to negotiate in good faith with the union and took steps to prevent our union from participating in the negotiations.
NPS management, for example, interfered and restricted our union’s right to designate our own representatives. Management refused to grant official time hours to officials who are part of our union’s bargaining team to meet and prepare for negotiations. Management unilaterally drafted directives and declared it intended to implement them on June 27, 2019.
Here are the most egregious provisions that are direct attacks on employees’ rights to union representation and workplace protections:
“The efforts by management at NPS to obliterate workers’ rights on the job mirror what the Trump administration has been doing at other agencies,” said AFGE President J. David Cox Sr. “We are going to do everything we can to fight this injustice and defend NPS employees from these immoral attacks on their rights and jobs.”
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May/June 2024 Government Standard: AFGE has been smashing organizing goals month after month, and we have no intention of slowing down!
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AFGE is asking lawmakers to repeal two controversial rules that have caused public servants to lose two-thirds or even the entire amount of their Social Security benefits.
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