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Public Sector Industry
Council Charter
Preamble:
This Charter
is intended to provide overall guidance and continuity for the Federal
Public Sector Industry Council, which operates under the auspices of
the Labor and Employment Relations Association. It is a living document,
subject to periodic review and calibration.
Title:
The LERA
Federal Public Sector Industry Council
Aim:
We are
committed to promoting constructive dialogue and action on issues of
policy, practice, theory and research that lie at the intersection of
the interests of labor, management, government, neutrals and scholars
in the federal public sector. The Federal Public Sector Industry Council
will focus on how the dynamics of human resource management and labor-management
relations affect the capability and performance of federal public organizations.
It will assess how alternative approaches can affect such capability
and performance.
Among some of the
substantive issues to be addressed are:
(1) the changing
rules of human resource management and labor-management relations in
the federal public sector;
(2) the role of unions and collective bargaining in the federal public
sector;
(3) the impact of human resource management and labor-management relations
on organizational effectiveness and efficiency; and
(4) competing principles, values, and norms in federal public sector
personnel policy.
Structure and
Operations:
This Council
will have a minimum of three co-chairs representing the management,
labor and neutral, academic or policy-making communities.
The Council membership
will include a minimum of 12 members (inclusive of the leadership co-chairs).
The Council will
meet a minimum of once per year, concurrent with the annual LERA meetings
or at another time as appropriate.
Decision making
within the Council will be on a consensus basis, including modifications
to this Charter.
Consistent with
the LERA Constitution and tax laws which govern 501 (C) (3) non profit
organizations, the Council may act as a forum for constructive dialogue
on policy matters, but it will not act in a lobbying capacity on a partisan
basis unless there is a consensus of the Council membership and written
approval from the LERA executive board.
This Charter is
granted to the Council by the LERA Executive Board for a period of five
years and is renewable thereafter for additional five-year terms.
Scope of Activities:
The Council
is encouraged to develop programming relevant to its industry for sessions
during the pre or post-conference portions of the LERA National Meeting,
as well as to submit session proposals for consideration during the
regular conference program and the National Policy Forum.
The Council is
encouraged to establish links with appropriate LERA Chapters and professional
associations relevant to its industry/occupation and engage in other
activities consistent with its aim (stated above) and the broader mission
of the LERA.
Date approved by LERA board: January 4, 2005
Founding Co-Chairs:
Marick F. Masters, University of Pittsburgh
Jeffrey Sumberg, esq., Booz Allen Hamilton
Robert Tobias, American University
Founding Members:
Professor Robert Albright, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dean John
Delaney, Michigan State University
Professor
Peter Feuille, University of Illinois
Jean Lenderking,
President, Lenderking, Reda and Associates, Inc.
David Lewin, UCLA
Douglas Mahoney, University of South Carolina
Martin Malin, Illinois Institute of Technology
Arthur Pearlstein, General Counsel, Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service
Phyllis Segal, Former Chair, Federal Labor Relations Authority
Jeff Sumberg, esq., Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
Howard Swinimer, National Treasury Employees Union
Robert Tobias, Director, Institute for Public-Policy Implementation,
American University
Donald Wasserman,
Former Chair, Federal Labor Relations Authority
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