I’ve attached the numbers (find them in this court document about DOI RIFs).
The numbers for the State Offices seem very large, do those numbers include the field offices? I think “covered employees” mean covered by union agreements (unions are the plaintiffs) but the ratios of covered to non-covered seem to vary widely across states. I wonder if that is real, and what the explanation for these differences is.
Thanks for sharing this.
For Oregon, the numbers seem to encompass all BLM Oregon staff. The State Office per se is more like 330 people not counting law enforcement and fire/aviation.
If “covered” does mean “has a collective bargaining agreement,” then that number tracks for Oregon, too. Supervisors and State Office employees are not unionized. Many, but not all, district/field office folks are.
As far as proportions varying widely among states, it is not surprising to me. Each potential bargaining unit is on its own to organize. There is no set standard of “staff in this part of the organization are unionized, staff in this part are not.” Within Oregon, some potential bargaining units that could be unionized are not. It is easy to imagine that this would play out differently in different states.
I am curious to see where this case goes. In particular, if the court judges that they can’t RIF the covered employees what does that mean for the non-covered folks?