EPA Seven-Year Labor Pact to Be Imposed by Agency on July 8 (1)

The Environmental Protection Agency is making unilateral changes to a collective bargaining agreement between the agency and its largest union.

A new seven-year labor contract between the EPA and Council 238 of the American Federation of Government Employees will be effective July 8, EPA Senior Labor Attorney Robert Coomber said in an email posted online by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a Washington-based nonprofit. The contract, if it isn’t successfully challenged, would require AFGE to vacate its office space at the EPA and take away some of the union grievance and arbitration procedures used to challenge terminations, discipline, layoffs, and ...