Pre-Decisional involvement in all workplace matters started it rolling.Kelley, Colleen Potus/Flotus 12/03/2009 18:30The inclusion of “FLOTUS” — First Lady Michelle Obama — and the 6:30 pm time of the December event on this entry in the Visitors Log indicates this was the White House Christmas Party held that evening and written up here in the Chicago Sun-Times. The Sun-Times focused on party guests from the President’s home state of Illinois and did not mention Kelley. Notably, the Illinois guests, who are reported to have attended the same party as Kelley, included what the paper described as four labor “activists”: Dennis Gannon of the Chicago Federation of Labor, Tom Balanoff of the Service Employees International Union, Henry Tamarin of UNITE, and Ron Powell of the United Food and Commercial Workers.
Six days following Kelley’s attendance at the White House Christmas party with labor activists like herself, the President issued Executive Order 13522 (text found here, with an explanation here). The Executive Order, titled: “Creating Labor-Management Forums To Improve Delivery of Government Services” applied across the federal government and included the IRS. The directive was designed to:
Allow employees and unions to have pre-decisional involvement in all workplace matters….However else this December 2009 Executive Order can be described, the directive was a serious grant of authority within the IRS to the powerful anti-Tea Party union. A union that by this time already had the clout to determine the rules for IRS employees, right down to who would be allowed a Blackberry or what size office the employee was entitled to. The same union that would shortly be doling out serious 2010 (and later 2012) campaign contributions to anti-Tea Party candidates with money supplied from IRS employees. The union, as noted last week here in this space, already has the authority to decide all manner of IRS matters, right down to who does and does not get a Blackberry.
From Explanations of Executive Order link above:
Allow employees and unions to have pre-decisional involvement in all workplace matters, without regard to whether subjects are negotiable under the Statute;It isn't clear that the information provided to union was not prohibited by law. That would be only a minor detail, or slight oversight. Probable just standard IRS procedure.
Expeditiously provide union with adequate information on such matters where not prohibited by law;
It is clear that an Executive Order established the union relationship targeting policy with this Executive Order in December 2009. But not using Executive Power in Fast and Furious and Benghazi leaves open that this Executive Order could have been created by some other Executive since Resident Obama who is not aware of the issue(s) could not be the Executive that created the order.
Who is the Real Acting Executive since it isn't Obama?
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