Government Employee Relations Report Index-Summary

UAW

See AUTO WORKERS (UAW)

UFT

See TEACHERS (UFT)

UHW (UNITED HEALTHCARE WORKERS)

See SERVICE EMPLOYEES (SEIU)

ULPs

See UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES (ULPs)

UMTA

See URBAN MASS TRANSIT ACT (UMTA)

UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION

– N.Y., substitute teachers, jobless benefits, attorney insights, 283
– State and local

See specific states

– Tax Extenders Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 4213

UNEMPLOYMENT RATES

– Age bias, higher jobless levels, finding new jobs, obstacles to bias claims, EEOC public meeting, 1384
– U.S. employment, BLS report, June, 968; Sept., 1213

UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES (ULPs)

– Bargaining refusal

See BARGAINING DUTY

– Case law outline and updated manual, FLRA town hall meeting to highlight, 1425
– Concerted activities, Iowa law gives public workers right to collectively bargain, county worker fired for asking private employer to give road crew raise (Iowa), 794
– FLRA

– – ADR of claims, OGC role, proposed rule, 145; OGC continuing to work on rules, 347; final rule letting OGC aid in ADR, 365
– – Case law outline, OGC posts, 1121

– Grass roots lobbying, attempts by NATCA and officers to speak on legislative issues, FAA bar (FLRA), 1039
– Oral pact, AFGE Local 1263 oral pact regarding pay hike at top of band, oral pact, chancellor authority (FLRA), 600
– Privacy, open shop, non-member LA county workers right to notice, chance to object, names disclosed to union, reasonable expectation (Cal. Ct. App.), 1509
– Privatization, student transportation, Pa. bus drivers' union charge, Act 88 applies to disputes during pact term (Pa. Commw. Ct.), 721
– Privatizing mental health services in retaliation for strike after AFSCME pact talks broke down, Or. county (Or. Ct. App.), 537
– Profanity, FAA removing NATCA local official after using during union activity (FLRA), 192
– Recognition of union

See RECOGNITION OF UNIONS

– Retaliation against prosecutors in union, L.A. County, injunction, likely success on merits (C.D. Cal.), 338
– Sick leave, pact breach, N.H. State Police performance evaluations cite attendance (N.H.), 1010
– Strike-related threats during pact talks, charge against Pa. Higher Ed. Sys. moot after pact attained (Pa.), 1506
– Supplemental life insurance, Mich. premiums change from flat rate to age based, no AFSCME pact violation (Mich. Ct. App.), 1194
– Transfers, L.A. Dist. Atty. systematic use to punish for Ass'n. of Deputy Dist. Attys. membership (Cal ERCOM), 1370
– Tuition assistance, unilateral discontinuation for offspring of professional staff (PLRB), 122

UNIFORMED SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND REEMPLOYMENT RIGHTS ACT (USERRA)

– America's Heroes At Work initiative, DOL online toolkit for hiring veterans, 1305
– Case Notes, 1037
– Disability bias, medical technician denied reemployment after injury during Reserve service, Cal. corrections worker, DOJ accord (E.D. Cal.), 884
– Disability or military service bias, Fla. law, hiring as court bailiff (11th Cir.), 47
– DOJ enforcement, suit filed in first year of Obama administration, Senate hearing, 489
– FCIP, hiring preferences, MSPB decision not final order, issues unresolved (Fed. Cir.), 984
– Hiring, job offer rescinded, applicant's military discharge after maximum entry age for postal inspector, waiver possible (MSPB), 1286
– Legislative branch, provision should be fully applicable, OSC FY2009 report, 875
– Military leave, NYPD retiree wants overtime and night differential pay included in pension credits (S.D.N.Y.), 843
– Promotions

– – N.Y.C., Army Reserve officer denied warden job after deployment, DOJ accord (S.D.N.Y.), 268
– – Wis., Milwaukee police officer denied makeup for exam during active duty, DOJ accord (E.D. Wis.), 97

– Reinstatement, Fresno, Cal. corrections officer forced to take entry-level job after active duty injury, DOJ accord (E.D. Cal.), 268
– Service member complaints, DOL, DOJ, and OSC meeting statutory deadlines, quarterly reports late, GAO report, 1273

UNIFORMS

– Doffing and donning time

See CLOTHES CHANGING

– Dress codes

See DRESS CODES AND GROOMING

UNION AFFILIATIONS AND MERGERS

See AFFILIATION OF UNIONS

UNION DUES

See DUES, UNION

UNION JURISDICTION

– USPS, assignment of work, deferential standard of judicial review of arbitration decisions (D.C. Cir.), 43

UNIONS

– Campaign contributions, provisions of N.J. executive order that sought to extend invalidated (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div.), 598
– Campaign finance, Supreme Court ruling ending corporate and union spending ban puts unions at disadvantage, commentator, 332
– Case Notes, 723
– Collectively bargained plans

See MULTIEMPLOYER PLANS

– Elections for representation

See REPRESENTATION ELECTIONS

– Internal elections

See specific unions

– Membership

– – BLS report, 2009, 119
– – Public sector more influential, government workers more than half of all union members, report, 333

– Mergers and affiliation

See AFFILIATION OF UNIONS

– Specific unions

See specific unions

UNIVERSITIES

See COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL WORKERS (UPTE)

– Local 9119, Univ. of Cal. pact ratified, 1302

URBAN MASS TRANSIT ACT (UMTA)

– DOL certification of Colorado Springs, Colo. pact with ATU Local 19 (10th Cir.), 165

U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE (USMS)

See LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEES

USAF (AIR FORCE)

See ARMED SERVICES

USAID

See AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID)

USCG (COAST GUARD)

See ARMED SERVICES

USCIS

See CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS)

USDA

See AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT (USDA)

USERRA

See UNIFORMED SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND REEMPLOYMENT RIGHTS ACT (USERRA)

USFS

See FOREST SERVICE (USFS)

USMS (U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE)

See LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEES

USPP

See PARK POLICE (USPP)

USPS

See POSTAL SERVICE (USPS)

UTAH

– Compressed workweeks, shift to 4-day workweeks, expected savings, productivity losses, audit, 885
– State worker pensions, commission recommends migration to defined contribution system, affirms legislative action, 1026

UTILITIES

– Neb., Omaha Pub. Power Dist., unilateral change in smoking rules, imposed after bona fide impasse with IBEW (Neb.), 1505
– Wash. Suburban Sanitary Comm'n, race bias, employer status under Md. law, subjected to county bias laws (Md.), 654