Amendment to Limit Federal Employees' Collective Bargaining Rights

Jun. 10, 2014 | H.R. 4745
This amendment would bar the use of funds provided by the bill to pay a federal employee during any period when that employee is using "official time" to represent a union or its bargaining unit employees. The Gingrey Amendment would serve no purpose but to erode collective bargaining rights for civil service federal employees at greater cost to American taxpayers. Union representation for employees working their way through administrative procedures is a cost-effective process for administrating and adjudicating agency policies. The alternative to official time is for government agencies to needlessly pay for costly third party attorney and arbitrator fees. Using this time for internal union business is strictly prohibited by law: under current law, official time may not be used to solicit membership, conduct internal union meetings, elect union officers, or engage in partisan political activities. The notion that official time is used for these purposes is blatantly false. The amendment was rejected.

This is Bad for working people.

Vote result: Failed

YEAs: 167
NAYs: 254

Legislator Sort descending State District Party Vote
Rep. Bradley Byrne
AL
1 Republican Yes
Rep. Ken Calvert
CA
41 Republican Yes
Rep. Dave Camp
MI
4 Republican Yes
Rep. John Campbell
CA
45 Republican Yes
Rep. Eric Cantor
VA
7 Republican Not Voting
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito
WV
Republican No
Rep. Lois Capps
CA
24 Democrat No
Rep. Michael E. Capuano
MA
7 Democrat No
Rep. Tony Cárdenas
CA
29 Democrat No
Rep. John Carney
DE
At Large Democrat No
Rep. André Carson
IN
7 Democrat No
Rep. John Carter
TX
31 Republican Yes
Rep. Matt Cartwright
PA
8 Democrat No
Sen. Bill Cassidy
LA
Republican Yes
Rep. Kathy Castor
FL
14 Democrat No
Rep. Joaquín Castro
TX
20 Democrat No
Rep. Steven J. Chabot
OH
1 Republican Yes
Rep. Jason Chaffetz
UT
3 Republican Yes
Rep. Judy Chu
CA
28 Democrat No
Rep. David Cicilline
RI
1 Democrat No