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    D.C. Circuit: Federal worker unions can demand ‘midterm’ bargaining

    January 28, 2022 // Federal-sector unions, which collectively represent more than 1 million government workers, have the right to demand that agencies bargain with them in the middle of a contract term, a U.S. appeals court said on Friday.

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    An Easy Fix to IRS Tax Filing Delays: Don’t Pay IRS Employees to Abandon Their Posts in Lieu of Union Work

    January 24, 2022 // Ensuring that IRS employees spend tax-filing season doing their jobs rather than working for their union is a commonsense step in the right direction.

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    Social Security Workers to Return to Offices Possibly by the End of March

    January 20, 2022 // The Social Security Administration announced Wednesday that it had reached agreements with all of its federal employee unions to begin bringing workers back to agency worksites with a target date of March 30, after making several key concessions to labor groups.

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    Biden Administration Recognizes Immigration Judge Union, Reversing Trump Decision

    December 7, 2021 // Even under Biden, the Justice Department briefly argued against the judges' collective bargaining.

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