The contract between Social Security and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), a labor union that represents most Social Security employees, expires in August 2009. Apparently, contract negotiations are to resume shortly. Given the ill will that exists between the union and Social Security management, these negotiations may be rocky.
There is a new president in the white house and a democratic majority in Congress. This will make a big difference in treatment of the unions.
ReplyDeleteYes, but we already tried that under the Clinton administration. To make a long story short, there is little liklihood that SSA's top staff and AFGE will ever just get along. Worse yet, any new administration can hardly wait to pitch whatever pro or antiunion notions it finds attractive. Meanwhile, most of the workplace problems we have can only be solved with more staff, more staff, more staff. Result--lots of smoke, not much fire.
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