{"id":20968,"date":"2019-02-11T21:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/02\/11\/white-house-and-unions-have-no-relationship-say-leaders\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:52:50","slug":"white-house-and-unions-have-no-relationship-say-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/2019\/02\/11\/white-house-and-unions-have-no-relationship-say-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"White House and unions have no relationship, say leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration did a poor job keeping federal employee unions appraised of what was happening during the shutdown, keeping with a trend of poor communication between the two groups, according to American Federation of Government Employees leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDuring other government shutdowns, and I\u2019ve been through when President Obama was president and the government shut down, there was daily calls, sometimes several times a day, with OMB and OPM, with all of the unions representing federal workers,\u201d said AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. at a Feb. 11 press roundtable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis administration chose to communicate absolutely nothing. Thank God, thank God for [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi and [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer who called AFGE every day, communicating with us every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Cox, they would occasionally get reminders about not using government email or other such small tidbits of information, but official briefings were lacking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration has long had a rocky relationship with federal employee unions, which came to a head when President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/2018\/08\/26\/judge-rules-trump-overstepped-with-union-executive-orders\/\" target=_blank>signed executive orders limiting official time<\/a> and calling for the renegotiation of agency-union agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Cox, that relationship with the administration is practically nonexistent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt doesn\u2019t exist. It does not exist in this administration. This administration seems to want to shut down OPM and kind of collapse everything into OMB. There is just not a relationship. They\u2019re only doing those things absolutely required by law,\u201d said Cox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve reached out to them, I\u2019ve sent letters asking for meetings, requesting meetings on a regular basis. I think other unions have done the same thing. 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