§4107 Functions of Foreign Service Labor Relations Board

Summary

The Board must run and oversee worker‑representation matters. It must hold and supervise elections to decide if a labor group is chosen by a majority of voters. It must handle complaints about unfair labor actions, settle disputes about the duty to bargain in good faith, and decide questions about what a bargaining agreement means or if it was broken. It must also take whatever steps are needed to make these rules work. The Board’s decisions should follow rulings by the Authority under chapter 71 of title 5, unless special facts make a different result necessary. To do its job, the Board must make procedures and may make other rules, investigate where needed, hold hearings, make people swear to tell the truth, take sworn testimony, force witnesses or documents, order the Department or a labor group to stop violations, require fixes, and perform similar functions as the Authority under chapter 71 when appropriate.