Fort Bragg Association of Educators, Nea v. Federal Labor Relations Authority

RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

This case involves a teachers’ union collective bargaining proposal resisted as nonnegotiable by the Department of the Army. Specifically, the union proposed that teachers in schools for dependents of Army personnel not be required to sign personal service contracts as a condition of employment. The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA or Authority), holding for the Army, declared the union’s proposal inconsistent with the Army’s right to hire, a right insulated against bargaining by the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute, 5 U.S.C. §…