For a group that says it’s committed to the federal workforce, the Biden administration sure is saddled with some lousy labor relations situations.
You can’t really blame the administration, though. A couple of long-festering labor-management issues lie only partially within the White House’s control. Specifically, it needs Senate confirmation of a few specific nominees to settle things down.
They only number 580 federal employees, but the Justice Department’s immigration judges are upset. The Federal Labor Relations Authority just reaffirmed its 2020 ruling that the judges are management employees and therefore not to be included in a bargaining unit. According to the Association of Immigration Judges president Mimi Tsankov, that amounts to de-certification of the union, part of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers.
