FederalDaily - December 27, 2007

GSA Names Telework Chief

The General Services Administration (GSA) last week named a veteran human resources official to lead the agency’s effort to have 50 percent of eligible employees teleworking by 2010. The new telework chief, William A. Kelly, currently serves as director of Human Resources Services in the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer. Kelly will lead a team of senior staff from various program offices. GSA Administrator Lurita Doan said the agency is “putting the people and polices in place to make GSA the leader in federal telework and a model for our sister agencies.” According to GSA, over the next few months Kelly will meet with each member of GSA’s senior executive staff and visit all 11 GSA regional offices to discuss the initiative. For more, go to: http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/contentView.do?pageTypeId=8199&channelId=-13259&P=XAP&contentId=23851&contentType=GSA_BASIC.

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AFGE Charters Four New TSA Locals

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) last week announced the chartering of four new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) locals. The union said that it has organized AFGE Locals for TSA Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta; another for TSOs within the city of Houston; and two others to represent TSOs in the state of Florida and in Puerto Rico. AFGE National President John Gage said the chartering of the locals “represents an evolution in our five-year organizing campaign from one which has focused almost exclusively on acquiring bargaining rights, to one that will take on workplace issues in a more localized manner.” For more, go to: http://www.afge.org/Index.cfm?Page=PressReleases&PressReleaseID=815.

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Omnibus Rider Postpones Postal Consolidations

The chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government this month attached a provision to the Fiscal Year 2008 omnibus appropriations bill that would postpone most pending Postal Service consolidation plans. Rep. José Serrano, D-N.Y., succeeded in attaching a rider to block consolidation of the Bronx distribution center operations into the Manhattan-based Morgan Postal Distribution Facility until Congress and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) are satisfied that the consolidation is warranted. According to an update posted on the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Web site, the final version of the bill included similar language regarding consolidations in Pasadena, Calif.; Sioux City, Iowa; Flint and Detroit, Mich.; Canton, Ohio; and Aberdeen, S.D. APWU said the final House/Senate version of the legislation directs the Postal Service not to implement these consolidations until after GAO has reported back to Congress and legislators have an opportunity to review GAO’s findings. For more, go to: http://apwu.org/news/webart/2007/webart07116-consol_rider071220.htm.

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