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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is hilarious with everyone trying to predict 3 years out. Well, here’s my prediction:

They’re not going to allow HQ to sit 2/3 empty till fall 2027.  Nor is it tenable for supervisors to work in office 80 hrs per PP while their subordinates waltz in 2 days a PP. Something will have to change. They’ll either loosen up on the telework policy for NBU, try to dissolve the CBA, etc.

This country has the attention span of a mouse. “Stickin it to the feds” is the Current Thing, but in a few months, we will have moved on to something else — a new “beast” to slay, a different emergency to obsess over. And people will forget about how many days feds telework. It’s a dumb, temporary media obsession.  (When’s the last time anyone’s heard of Covid, which was sooooo important a couple years ago?)[/quote]

If they were going to make us come in, they would have done so tonight in the email. They can’t in a few weeks or months decide our CBA is not valid. Their email today makes it clear that telework is a right until at least 2027. If they were going to argue the language is vague in the CBA, they would have ripped the bandaid off and done so. Sorry to the haters, and sorry to management stuck working every day in an office, but SEC employees will be working from home for the next few years. [/quote]

I heard from a reliable source that there will be an EO coming out that will require all agencies to renegotiate their contracts within 60 days.  I am guessing that they will remove telework from the contract then. I think bargaining unit employees will be directed back to the office within 90/120 days.[/quote]

That only works if there is a reopener which the sec cba does not have.[/quote]

The union can file a grievance if the agency unilaterally reopens the contract. In the meantime, employees will have to comply or face disciplinary action. The process will take more than a year and the outcome is uncertain. Additionally, there’s a high likelihood that in the next few months, Congress will pass a law requiring in-person work.

Don’t be overly confident about the strength of the CBA. The levers of government are all against expansive telework. [/quote]

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