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Social Security Workers Fight For their Rights Against Anti-Union Attacks
Credit: AFGE
Government unions rally last summer against President Trump’s executive orders attacking federal workers.
http://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/19Daily/1905/190515_SocialSecurity
May 15, 2019
The Social Security Administration has joined a growing list of federal agencies that are impeding the ability of unions to represent government workers and taking extreme positions in contract talks.
Angry members of Congress are stepping up their demands for answers.
“I cannot believe I have to send another letter asking Acting SSA Commissioner Berryhill to come back to the bargaining table and change her extreme bargaining position, which recent court cases show is illegal,” U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois said.
Nearly 160 of Schakowsky’s colleagues signed her April 26 letter to SSA, her second this year. Both letters decry the agency’s anti-union tactics and bad-faith bargaining with workers who assist the nation’s Social Security beneficiaries.
“We are deeply concerned that the Social Security Administration may have deliberately precipitated a breakdown in negotiations by insisting on proposals that are both extreme and similar in anti-union tone” to executive orders issued by President Trump in May 2018, the letter states.
FULL story at link above.
