Labor Panel Considers Lobbying Limits for Federal Worker Unions

The agency in charge of the government’s labor relations program is asking whether federal employees who also are union officials should continue to get “official time"—paid time for union representational work—for presenting their members’ views to Congress.

The Federal Labor Relations Authority has been asked by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation to issue guidance on whether the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute allows agencies and unions to bargain over or to use official time for lobbying, the authority said Tuesday. Comments on the proposal are due within 30 days, the FLRA said.

Federal employee unions, which represent ...