According to Jamie Dukes, president of the AFGE Local 2017 union, the meeting was described as an information post to protest against the intimidation and harassment of workers who raise issues at work by management. Dukes was fired from his position as a laboratory technician on Feb. 4 due to what he called a “medical inability to do my job.” Staff of the Agency for Labour Relations or any other appropriate personnel may register as a user and submit CBAs and arbitration awards through the OPM Labor Relations Document Submission Portal. Once approved, Agency users can file arbitration decisions directly on this application. CBAs must not contain signatures, individual names, or other personal identifiers. Agencies can simply delete the signature page of cbAs or blacken the signatures, names and other personal identifiers of the CBAs. Please note that all BCAs must be submitted in a PDF file format (portable document format) that complies with the standards of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended (29 U.S.C. § 794(d) and 36 CFR Part 1194). Arbitral awards do not require compliance or obscurity in accordance with Section 508, but must be available in a searchable format. For more information on the filing of documents, please refer to the CBA Database Publication Submission. To register for the first time as an agency user, please visit the user registration page. Dukes said he had filed a complaint about his dismissal and management was not prepared to deal with complaints from other employees. “When soldiers complain of mold, management looks at the complaint and gets things fixed, but the employees don`t,” Dukes said.

“If we raise the concerns, we will be reprimanded. Fort Gordon likes to mention the term “one team,” but I`m sure it doesn`t sound like that. “Employees are reprimanded when they express an opinion, and that`s not normal,” Dukes said. “Management turns a blind eye to our work management plan and refuses to abide by the contract we have…