Labor Updates (10/4/07)

Negotiations have broken down concerning the use of representational time by stewards and officers at the Library of Congress (LOC), reports the LOC Professional Guild, AFCSME Local 2910. "The parties are headed for the Federal Services Impasses Panel," the Guild's Saul Schniderman tells UNION CITY. "For the past year the Office of Workforce Management has tried to bully us, harass us, and has grieved against us - we won the arbitration case - without citing one instance of misuse or abuse of representational time by any Guild official."