More On Max Stier

The American Federation of Government Employees apparently isn't the only union in town that doesn't like the idea of Partnership for Public Service President Max Stier taking the helm at the Office of Personnel Management. (LARGE caveat here, folks: Stier hasn't been named to the position, and the Partnership is not commenting on the rumor that he might be confirmed to the position. So we have very little hard evidence to go on here.) The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers has climbed on the anti-Stier bandwagon too. According to the union's legislative director Matt Biggs:

“IFPTE is adamantly opposed to Max Stier taking the helm at OPM. He has taken opportunity after opportunity to support the current administration’s attacks on federal workers and he would be an unacceptable candidate for this position.”

All this sturm und drang may ultimately be for naught. The new OPM director may be someone else altogether. But no matter what happens, this all reveals some serious disagreement between one of the biggest non-profits on the good-government circuit and some federal employee unions. And it happens at a time when the Government Performance Coalition, a loose affiliation of non-profits of which the Partnership for Public Service is a member, is trying to reach out to labor.