What is the relationship between my agencys strategic plan and a labor-management plan?
All federal agencies are now required by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) to prepare strategic plans. It makes sense to develop your labor-management plan in conjunction with your agency’s strategic plan. This is especially important since the President’s Memorandum calls on labor and management to make “every effort to develop a [labor-management] plan that helps the agency and its employees deliver the highest quality service to the American people.” Labor and management can more effectively work toward achieving the agency’s goals if they develop their plan with the agency’s strategic plan in mind. The President asks for labor-management plans to be developed at “appropriate levels of recognition.” What does this mean? Generally, this means the bargaining unit level. If the recognition at your agency is at the national level, you should work with the union to incorporate local concerns and views into the national labor-management plan. The important point is
