Bay Pines VA Healthcare System
Bay Pines, Florida
AFGE Local 548
P.O. Box 448
Bay Pines, FL 33744
ph: 727-398-6661 x7615
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Tatishka Musgrove,
President
and
National VA Council Representative
On the convention floor with our Orlando sisters
(L) Wanda Mims, Director, San Juan VA Healthcare System and (R) Tatishka Musgrove, President AFGE Local 548
Master Agreement Training, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Executive Board Members AFGE Local 548,
Bay Pines VA Healthcare System
(Top L) Clark Hazley,Fair Practice Coordinator and (Top R) Stan Jankiewicz, First Vice-President and (Bottom L) Dina Meitner, Executive Vice-President and (Bottom R) Tatishka Musgrove, President
Master Agreement Training, San Juan, Puerto Rico
(L to R) Dina Meitner, Executive Vice-President, Stan Jankiewicz, First Vice-President, Wanda Mims, Director San Juan VA, Tatishka Musgrove, President and Clark Hazley,Fair Practice Coordinator
Master Agreement Training, San Juan, Puerto Rico
What is the Labor Management Forum (LMF)?
President Obama has issued Executive Order 13522: Creating the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations and Labor-Management Forums to Improve Delivery of Government Services. This is an important change in the way labor-management relations should be conducted in the Federal Sector. The Executive Order gives the union the opportunity to have greater impact to help improve the way Bay Pines works and to help make the workplace better for employees.
The Bay Pines VA Healthcare system has a local LMF which is comprised of labor and management. A very important component of the LMF is the following:
Pre-decisional Involvement (PDI):
Pre-decisional involvement is defined in the EO in two important places. In Section 1. Policy, the EO says:
Management should discuss workplace challenges and problems with labor and endeavor to develop solutions jointly, rather than advise union representatives of predetermined solutions to problems and then engage in bargaining over the impact and implementation of the predetermined solutions.
In Section 3, (a)(ii), the EO says that each agency or department head shall:
…allow employees and their union representatives to have pre-decisional involvement in all workplace matters to the fullest extent practicable, without regard to whether those matters are negotiable subjects of bargaining under 5 U.S.C. 7106…”
PDI truly means that the union is notified about something the agency either wants to do or is required to do before it actually decides how it will respond. Agencies like to say that involving the union prevents them from acting as quickly as they need to respond to emergencies. The reality is that agencies frequently spend months dealing with an issue internally before they notify the union about their decision (if they even do that) and give us a month or so to comment. To the fullest extent practicable, the agency should bring the union into these deliberations as early as possible. The EO makes it clear that the unions should not be handed a predetermined solution. In true emergencies, management always has the authority to act quickly.
Tatishka Musgrove, President
(Top L to R) Keith Neeley, Associate Director Bay Pines VA, Dina Meitner, Executive Vice-President, Teresa Kumar, Associate Director of Nursing Bay Pines VA, Clark Hazley,Fair Practice Coordinator and Stan Jankiewicz, First Vice-President
(Bottom L to R) Paula Buchele, Human Resources Officer, Bay Pines VA, Tatishka Musgrove, President and Kristine M. Brown, Interim Director, Bay Pines VA
Master Agreement Training, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Copyright 2012 AFGE Local 548. All rights reserved.
AFGE Local 548
P.O. Box 448
Bay Pines, FL 33744
ph: 727-398-6661 x7615
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