Come to or log on to the 2024 SFLERP 50th Anniversary Symposium. We will again offer a Zoom option for those who cannot attend the Symposium at the newly renovated Hilton Arlington National Landing Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.
We will focus on the history and current events in Labor and Employment Relations during the 50 years of the Society. The highlights of the Symposium will include presentations from Barbara Haga, President of Federal HR Services, Inc., FSIP Chairman Marty Malin, FLRA Chairman Susan Tsui Grundmann, and more. The conference will conclude with the presentation of the Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award to Ernie DuBester, and he will provide his views on the past, present, and future of the Federal labor relations programs.
Below is the Agenda for the Symposium. The link to register is below the agenda. We look forward to seeing you at the Symposium. Don’t miss this opportunity to register online at $450 for members and $525 for non-members by the early bird deadline of February 15, 2024. After February 15, 2024, the cost will be $500 for members and $575 for non-members.
The Hilton Arlington National Landing Hotel is conveniently located near Washington Reagan National Airport and the Crystal City metro station. If you are coming from out of town and need overnight accommodation at the hotel, rooms are set aside for conference participants at a rate of $219 per night, plus tax, from March 10 until March 18, 2024, on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please click HERE for hotel reservations.
50th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM – PROGRAM and SCHEDULE***
Thursday, March 14
8:00 AM Registration Opens. Coffee
8:30 AM Welcome: SFLERP President May Silverstein Welcoming video from U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, Virginia
8:45 AM – 10:15 AM Session 1
History of Federal Labor and Employment Relations
Panel Presentation including NFFE President Randy Erwin, SFLERP Founding Board Member Ed Passman, Barbara Haga, Jeff Friday, Howard Friedman, and Richard Giacolone, all former SFLERP Presidents.
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM Coffee Break – Lobby Foyer
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Session 2
Why Arbitrators do not accept Federal Sector Arbitrations.
Panel Sean Rogers, NAA Arbitrator; David P. Clark, NAA Arbitrator; Arthur Pearlstein, FMCS Arbitration Director; Moderator Keith Greenberg, NAA Arbitrator
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM LUNCH and Presentation of the 2024 Margery F. Gootnick Labor-Management Cooperation Award
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Session 3
Key Events in LR History in the Federal Sector focus on PATCO
Dr. Joseph McCartin; Ken Moffett, NTEU Director of Negotiations; Jim Kinney, SFLERP Board Member
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Coffee Break – Lobby Foyer
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM Session 4
History and Developments at the FLRA
Chairman Susan Tsui Grundmann
4:45 PM – 6:00 PM Networking Reception – Lobby Foyer
Friday, March 15
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM Coffee – Lobby Foyer
8:45 AM – 10:15 AM Session 5
Resignations and Retirements – Voluntary or Involuntary?
Barbara Haga President, Federal HR Services, Inc.
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM Coffee Break – Lobby Foyer
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Session 6
Mock Settlement Impasse Case
FSIP Chairman Martin Malin; Member Howard Friedman, and Panel Members
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch and EEOC Presentation EEOC Commissioner Andrea Lucas
Presentation of the Paco Martínez-Alvarez Lifetime Achievement Award. Recipient Ernie DuBester.
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Session 7
Town Hall with the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Recipient
Ernie DuBester
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM SFLERP Annual Membership Meeting
***Program subject to change.
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