GAO Analysts Decide to Join Union
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From the Associated Press:
Analysts at Congress' watchdog agency, the Government Accountability Office, voted early Thursday to join a union and have it negotiate with management.
Analysts voted 897-445 to join the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, a union that already represents workers at the Congressional Research Service, another legislative branch agency.
It's the first time in GAO's 86-year history that analysts have voted to join a union.
"The union will help us to make GAO a true model agency," said Lise Levie, a GAO analyst who was an election observer for the union.
Some analysts have complained about the decision by Comptroller General David Walker, head of the GAO, to move the agency away from the federal personnel structure and give more weight to market salary rates and job performance when determining pay. The change meant some employees did not receive a raise for 2007...click to continue.
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