Collective Bargaining

B1 Bargaining—What is its true value?

Crystal Lloyd

ECON/515

October 20, 2103

Dr. Collymore

To be better understand the nature of B1 bargaining, I used data collected from the 2012 Report to the President on Negotiation over Permissive Subjects of Bargaining: Pilot Projects. This report gave a comprehensive understanding of how if used wisely B1 bargaining would indeed be valuable. B1 bargaining was initiated in 1962 by President Kennedy granting Federal employees their initial rights to engage in collective bargaining through labor organizations of the choice. The Federal Labor management relationship program has continued to evolve over the last five decades. In 1978, President Carter signed into law the Federal Service Labor Management Relations Statue (FSLMRS)—it still protects the rights of Federal employees to organize, bargain collectively, and participate through labor organizations of their choice that will affect their working lives.

Section 7106(a) prohibits the parties from negotiating certain management rights, including: the right to determine the mission, budget, organization, number of employees, and the internal security practices of the agency; the right to hire, assign, direct, lay off, and retain employees in the agency, or to suspend, remove, reduce in grade or pay, or take other disciplinary action against such employees, the right to assign work, to make determinations with respect to contracting out, and to determine the personnel by which agency operations shall be conducted; with respect to the filling positions, the right to make selections for appointments from among properly ranked and certified candidates for promotion or any other appropriate source; and the right to take whatever actions may be necessary to carry out the agency mission...