Obama Issues Executive Order

Federal managers, management associations and unions will have two more years to make kumbaya. President Obama issued an executive order extending the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations through 2013. It was set to expire in a month. The White House calls the extension routine. But not much on the committee's agenda has been done. A few weeks ago, it recommended ways to improve employee evaluation systems. But it's still working on other objectives. One is to gage the value of union participation in non-bargaining decisions, such as how many workers to assign to a project