The Office of Personnel Management has offered some extra help to federal unions looking to add eligible employees to their membership rosters.
Federal unions have tools available in FedScope, OPM’s online federal employee database, to identify which agencies have the largest amounts of unrepresented workers, said Tim Curry, OPM’s deputy associate director for accountability and workforce relations, in an email obtained by Federal News Network.
“OPM is assessing ways to improve, consistent with applicable law, data transparency on bargaining unit eligibility in all agencies,” Curry wrote.
The email aimed to highlight to unions where information on federal employees, including their bargaining unit status, was already publicly available. Federal News Network has also extracted and analyzed the data. You can find a table summarizing the agencies with the largest percentages of non-unionized employees here.
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The reminder from OPM stemmed from just one of nearly 70 recommendations that the White House task force on worker organizing and empowerment released in February, focused on “removing unnecessary barriers and obstacles which impede the ability of federal employees to exercise their right to organize and other labor...
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