News out of the Commerce Department reminds me of the fabled man-bites-dog news story.

Just when the pay-for-performance concept is being buffeted and battered in the courts, some Union members at the Commerce Department expressly voted FOR inclusion in the agency’s demonstration project.  This report, by Karen Rutzick of govexec.com, is even more bizarre, as interested employees joined the Union en masse specifically to turn the vote in favor of accepting this compensation test.

Read the account and let us know your reaction.  How did this happen?  Were Booz Allen Hamilton’s findings judged conclusive and convincing to these folks?  Is that why we see this unusual development?  What’s up with these on-again, off-again new personnel management systems?

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