The Biden Administration signed contracts with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) to lock in telework at Social Security until 2029 but there are at least two other, smaller employee unions at Social Security -- the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) and the ALJ union. What's with them? Do they have new, unannounced contracts or were they just already protected?
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The NTEU and ALJ contracts already contained the same language.
You say protected? I say, protected from going back to work.
The judges' contract in 2022 (valid through 2029) only provides that SSA judges are eligible to participate in telework, but does not provide guarantees.
Those other unions have always been a lot stronger than AFGE. At least it has always appeared that way. I've not seen their contract but my guess is that it was already shored up previously.
It very much does provide guarantees. In fact, it guarantees far greater flexibility than the AFGE contract does for non-ALJ staff. Anyone who can’t see that isn’t fully understanding the agreement.
12:19 sounds like one of the judges' union board members, who wants to pretend that her sellout contract was worthwhile and that she still shouldn't be forced to do any agency work. Lol
These agreements won't be worth much. A minor speed bump to slashing the agency and ending telework.
Bisignano clearly does not support telework. Don't kid yourselves - if union contracts lock down telework, Bisignano will commence RIF procedures to thin out the ranks.
Union contracts are exactly as strong as the paper they are written on and can be tossed in the trash easily and remember the SCOTUS is a puppet show and wont save you
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