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UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE (ULP)
A violation of any of the provisions of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute. ULP charges are filed with the Authority by an individual, a union, or an activity. They are investigated by the General Counsel who issues a ULP complaint if the General Counsel concludes the charge(s) have merit, and who prosecutes the matter before an Administrative Law Judge in a fact-finding hearing and before the Authority, which decides the matter. The most common agency ULPs are duty-to-bargain ULPs (usually a failure to give the union notice of proposed changes in conditions of employment and/or engage in impact and implementation bargaining), formal discussion ULPs, Weingarten ULPs, and failure-to-provide- information ULPs. The most common ULP committed by a union is a failure to fairly represent (see fair representation) all unit members without regard to union membership.
UNIT DETERMINATION ELECTION
When several petitioners seek to represent different parts of an employer and the proposed units overlap, and when FLRA finds that more than one of the proposed units are appropriate, it lets the employees vote for units as well as unions.
