On April 26, 2021, President Joseph Biden established the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment via Executive Order 14025 and directed the Task Force to “identify executive branch policies, practices, and programs that could be used, consistent with
applicable law, to promote [the] Administration’s policy of support for worker power, worker organizing, and collective bargaining.” The President named Vice President Kamala Harris as Chair of the Task Force and Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh as its Vice-Chair.
On August 4, 2022, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) and the Union of Authority Employees (UAE), the exclusive representative of the FLRA’s bargaining-unit employees, announced their agreement to reestablish the FLRA’s Labor-Management Forum (LMF).
The Office of the General Counsel is pleased to announce the release of a training video on Labor Management Forums. The video educates federal employees, unions, and managers on what Labor-Management Forums are, how they can be integrated into the collective bargaining process using Pre-Decisional Involvement (PDI), and on ways, they can improve labor-management relations. The video is posted on the Agency’s YouTube channel and the FLRA’s video training library page.