If you are a RVP, LP or other Union officer and you need access to the private area of our website, please email us within HUD Locator (afgecouncil222@hud.gov).
Training Materials (more materials are found in the private area)
AFGE YouTube Videos:
Collective Bargaining Manual
I and I or Appropriate Management Bargaining
Negotiability of Management Rights
Negotiations Skills Participant Guide
Webinar on Bargaining Basics
Larger AFGE Site with over a dozen helpful docs related to bargaining (may be short commercials)
5 USC Chapter 71, Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute
Adverse Action Misconduct, Douglas Factors For
Appropriate Arrangements Proposals, Pt 1 (Fedsmill),
Appropriate Arrangements Proposals, Pt 2 (Fedsmill)
Arbitration, Guide On (FLRA,Sept 2016)
Grievance Drafting Tips 1-6 (Fedsmill.com)
Information Requests, Guide On (FLRA, 2011)
Just Cause, Arbitrator Daugherty´s Seven Tests of
Just Cause, Efficiency of Service & Progressive
Discipline for Inappropriate Conduct, DOJ & NAU (66 FLRA No. 41, 9-30-11)
Meetings, Guidance On (FLRA, Sept 2015)
Negotiability, Guide To (FLRA, June 2013)
Negotiability Regulations (FLRA, 2-17-21)
Plain Language & Ambiguous Contract Interpretation Standards
Request for Information, Model for Union (FLRA)
Request for Information (under 5 U.S.C. § 7114(b)(4)) to get copies of
supervisors'/management officials' disciplinary/adverse action records agency-wide if you are representing a Union member
or bargaining-unit employee in a disciplinary/adverse action case to see if HUD is treating employees disparately/unfairly
and inequitably in the imposition of the disciplinary/adverse action penalties compared to supervisors/management officials.
Telework:
The White House: Measuring What Matters: Organizational Health and Performance (04.13.23)
The White House: MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES (04.13.23)
Biden Harris President's Mgmt Agenda Vision
2021 OPM Guide to Telework and Remote Work in the Federal Government
ULP Case Law Outline (FLRA, Sept 2020)
Witness Rights! (FedSmith 04.20.21)
FLRA Power Point on Agency Investigation examination, formal discussion and surveys with answers to example questions
FLRA Channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChxZxAWRochHxTLjRPWmuoQ
What Every Union negotiator should know...
- About Past Practice by Frank Ferris
- About Changes in Working Conditions
- Negotiability - 20+ FLRA Precedents
Why Do People Still Say Impact and Implementation?
Please Note and utilize the five criteria identified what makes a union proposal a negotiable
appropriate arrangement by Mr. Swerdzewski in the FLRA's precedential case. In writing your bargaining proposals (article from the
FLRA's former General Counsel under the Clinton Administration, Joe Swerdzewski).
PLEASE NOTE: Note that the adverse effects can be reasonably foreseeable to be a negotiable appropriate arrangement.
Often, management is making a proposed change in conditions of employment that have not been implemented yet, but the adverse effect can be reasonably foreseeable. For example, if the Agency wants to change how job hiring or promotions are announced, no longer wants to use usajobs.gov, and instead wants to use the hud.gov website to advertise jobs, it is reasonably foreseeable that employees will continue to go to the usajobs.gov website because it has been used for about 15 years now and they would not find any jobs or promotions to apply for; they would miss hiring and promotion opportunities. Therefore, procedures and appropriate arrangements can be tailored to notify and market to employees the change in web site to apply for HUD jobs and promotions. An appropriate arrangement would be that employees who have evidence that they searched the usajobs.gov website for a job promotion and missed the deadline to apply, that their paper applications would be evaluated and considered after the application closing deadline to be emailed or faxed to the HR Specialist listed in the vacancy announcement within a certain number of days of the announcement closing.
Hope this example helps.
FedSmith Do You Know What Sexual Harrassment Is? - Sexual Harrassment as defined by law.
