National Consultation Rights

National Consultation Rights (“NCRs”) allow unions like ours to be notified and comment on agency-wide policies affecting working conditions. NCRs are a concept from the same law that protects workers’ rights to form unions in the federal sector. The basic idea is that if a national union represents a sufficiently large number of workers nationwide, it has a right to be notified and provide comments before any national policy that affects working conditions is rolled out. A secondary benefit is the advance notice for our IFPTE locals, which can help you and your fellow workers in the USACE districts, divisions, labs, and activities prepare to bargain over such policies.
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IFPTE has held NCRs with DoD and the Department of the Army for a long time, and we are currently pursuing confirmation of our NCRs at the USACE level as well. IFPTE and the ACE Council are excited to use NCRs as an effective tool to help protect your rights in the workplace. If you would be interested in seeing and/or commenting on draft versions of agency policies that could affect your working conditions, let your local union rep know that you would like to be included on their distribution list for NCR notifications.