Labor-management council holds first meeting By STEPHEN LOSEY | Federal Times - February 26, 2010
Senior Obama administration and federal labor officials met today in the first attempt at forging labor-management partnerships at 200 federal agencies. A new National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations is overseeing the effort, and today appointed a four-member working group to review agencies’ plans for how they will create labor-management partnerships. The four are American Federation of Government Employees National President John Gage; National Association of Government Employees National President David Holway; Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Jane Lute; and Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary Scott Gould.

John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management and co-chairman of the national council, said he wants the council to have a complete package of implementation plans ready by its next meeting, April 7. Berry said plans will be posted on the council’s Web site as they are received. Most of the council’s initial work dealt with establishing its guiding principles and proposing metrics to measure the effectiveness of the partnerships.