A vote for Securities and Exchange Commission employees to choose whether or not to be unionized has been scheduled for mid-summer, the National Treasury Employees Union announced Thursday.
The vote has been almost a year in the making. Earlier this month, the Federal Labor Relations Authority made a final decision in favor of a single, nationwide bargaining unit for the agency's professional and nonprofessional staff, dismissing an appeal by SEC management that the agency should be subdivided into 11 separate bargaining units.
NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley said SEC employees "have been, from the beginning of this organizing campaign more than a year ago, firm in their desire and determination to be part of NTEU, and we have every confidence that desire and determination will be reflected in the vote."
Employees at SEC's Washington headquarters will vote in person on July 13. Field office employees will be able to vote via ballots that will be mailed on June 13, due back to the FLRA on July 12.
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