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The information here is for reference. Feel free to review the copy of the document representing an iteration of the proposed agreement between the local and management regarding the use of the agency’s email network.
Union’s Written “Response Proposal” to Management on Union’s Use of the Electronic Mail System
1. The American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO through its agent, the National Council of Education Locals No. 252, hereafter referred to as the Union or the Council, believes that a compelling need exists for the Union to have “unfettered” access to its bargaining unit employees through use of the electronic “email” system. Council 252 is the exclusive representative for bargaining unit employees in the U.S. Department of Education. Direct contact with bargaining unit employees through the electronic communication system (email) affords the Union clear and an identifiable means of communicating with its members. Direct contact with bargaining unit employees through the electronic communication system (email) affords the Union the needed efficiency of operations for effectively representing bargaining unit employees timely, and exclusively.
2. The Union believes that for the exclusive representative to be given the opportunity to fulfill its role resourcefully, that the Employer must give to the Union a listing of names of all bargaining unit employees in the organization. The Employer understands that the Union, as the sole representative of bargaining unit employees, will use the list for the conduct of labor management activities and for other general conditions of employment affecting bargaining unit employees. 3. The Union believes that it is antithetical to the concept of the Labor-management Relations Statute for management to say it wants to “regulate” the use of the electronic email system by the Union for their content of messages, for limiting their messages from broad distribution or for mitigating their writing style. Nothing under the Labor-management Relations Statute gives management the right to “regulate” how the Union uses the electronic email system, funded under public interest, for communicating with Union constituency. Nothing under the Labor-management Relations Statute gives management the right to dictate to the Union the content of Union messages sent as sole exclusive representative of bargaining unit employees and to dictate the extent of Union distribution of those messages to bargaining unit employees, or to dictate the Union’s writing style.
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