The Federal Labor Relations Authority has jurisdiction over labor disputes involving National Guards and their technicians who have dual status as federal employees working for state militias, the US Supreme Court ruled.
The justices’ 7-2 ruling Thursday preserves the federal-sector labor law rights of dual-status technicians. More than 32,000 technicians are represented by unions, in every state but Mississippi, according to the FLRA, the agency that oversees labor relations between the federal government and its workers.
State National Guards act as federal agencies for purposes of federal-sector labor law when when they hire and supervise dual-status technicians serving in a ...
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