By Doug Cunningham

Unions representing Homeland Security workers were in federal court Thursday continuing a fight to preserve true collective bargaining as the government tries to impose a new personnel system. NTEU’s Greg O’Duden.

[Greg O’Duden]: “What they came up with, particularly with respect to collective bargaining, is a blatantly one-sided system that reserves for the agency really total authority regarding the setting of conditions of employment. And that of course is totally antithetical to the whole idea of collective bargaining."

Unions say the new personnel system guts collective bargaining rights. The case is on an expedited appeal in Washington, D.C.