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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The obvious: OPM is not going to let agencies hide behind CBAs to resist bringing bargaining unit staff back.  Agencies will be pushed to renegotiate/break the CBAs, and the language on reviewing how they were "entered into" in the last 4 years implies they will try to say the existing agreements are somehow invalid.  Unions will sue.  In the meantime, workers will be left in limbo, which means returning to office.[/quote]

Wouldn’t the status quo mean honoring the CBAs since they were lawfully negotiated? In a normal legal setting (a huge assumption right now), a TRO would preserve the status quo unless the judge thought the administration would prevail.[/quote]

I think grievances are arbitrated.  I think there is a measure by which the arbitrated can issue something like a preliminary injunction.  I don't know how that would play out in practice.  Probably granted if the agency makes a dumb argument like the CBA is invalid.  Maybe not granted if the agency says something like TW is not secure or they have have a documented business/operational case for now allowing it.

Thing is even if the agency loses I bet at least some people will quit while the matter is pending.[/quote]

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