Federal Agencies Get Guidance on Easing Worker Labor Organizing

The federal government’s personnel office issued guidance Tuesday outlining what agencies should do to improve labor organizing among federal employees, implementing the last of several recommendations from the Biden administration union task force.

The guidelines instruct agencies on “how to increase unions’ access and ability to communicate with federal employees"; quickly process workers’ requests to have union dues deducted from their paycheck; and train federal managers and supervisors about how to remain neutral when workers are organizing a union, according to a copy of the documents obtained by Bloomberg Law.

The new guidance from the Office of Personnel Management acts ...