Collective Bargaining in the U. S. Department of the Interior

Abstract

sider our system at Interior a good one, in no sense are my comments to be considered advocating the adoption of similar practices by any other governmental agency or by the Federal Government a whole. It is simply a description of what now exists in one Federal executive department. In setting rates of pay for employees, many systems are used in the Federal Government. In the Department of the Interior, the principal methods are: (1) the Classification Act of 1949, amended, through which rates of pay are established by the Congress of the United States, and (2) wage board procedures which are designed to establish rates of pay for blue collar workers as nearly is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates. This process of establishing pay scales consistent with local rates provides the principal basis for the collective negotiating procedures utilized in the Department of the Interior.