NFFE
NFFE affiliated with this Union in 1999
What is International Association of Machinists (or IAM)?
People that are part of this group can expect the Union to treat them equally with regards to watchdogging their rights under the contract
What is the Bargaining Unit?
This is an alternate name for the "the contract"
What is "collective bargaining agreement", "CBA", or "Master Agreement"
"ULP" stands for this
What is Unfair Labor Practice Charge
What N.F.F.E. stands for
What is National Federation of Federal Employees
This ending to the grievance describes what is needed to resolve the matter
What is requested rellief?
Some federal agencies are rushing to complete bargaining of a new contract before this possibility comes to pass
What is a new President or a different impasses panel?
This is the result of the FLRA lacking a General Counsel
What is FLRA unable to issue a complaint (or take a case before a judge)?
In a 1980's Clarification of Unit case, the Authority determined that some positions were outside of Local 60's bargaining unit because they were this
What is supervisor or management official?
This union structure acts as an umbrella organization for all the locals within an agency (but is only found at a few agencies)
What is a Council?
The end to this prompts a grievance from the Union, even though the topic is referenced nowhere in the contract
What is a past practice?
The Agency can voluntarily choose to bargain these topics, but are free to decline to bargain
What are permissive subjects of bargaining?
This is often filed when the Agency makes an isolated violation of the contract
What is a grievance?
This is what the Federal Services Impasses Panel does
What are decides bargaining stalemates/negotiations impasses?
This part-time position within NFFE performs a budgetary oversight role
What are Vice Presidents?
This alternative to a grievance can be used when an employee is suspended for 15 dats for cursing at the Director and the Union doesn't want to risk thousands at arbitration
What is Merit Systems Protection Board appeal?
Disagreements over whether the contract was violated are taken before this outside party to decide
What is an arbitrator?
The deadline to file an Unfair Labor Practice Charge
What is six months?
Since the creation of Forest Service Locals are each separate, isolated actions by the FLRA, this disparity between locals has become common
What is differences in which types of positions are eligible to be in the bargaining unit/eligible to join the union?
The Lloyd-La Follette Act enabled the creation of NFFE in 1917 by overturning the Executive Order of this U.S. President
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This phrase is intended to allow you to come up with more requested relief later in the case
What is "any other appropriate relief"?
This delays, but doesn't prevent, the filing of a ULP
What is a ULP pre-notification provision?
This is allegedly violated in an Unfair Labor Practice
What is "The Statute" (or 5 USC 7116)?
This is how Union proposals affected if the Agency is making a change under "Management Rights"
What is Union can't propose Management reverse the change?