Officials at Eglin AFB, Fla., have signed a “unique” Master Labor Agreement that covers two unions—American Federation of Government Employees Local 1897 and Local 1942, reports base journalist Lois Walsh. Brig. Gen. David Eidsaune, head of the Air Armament Center at Eglin, says the base “sets the example for the rest of the command in terms of how unions and management work together for efficiency, fairness, and leveling the playing field for all.” Eglin is an Air Force Materiel Command facility.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III chaired a China-focused military briefing Oct. 27, part of a biweekly series of briefings with senior military commanders about China’s growing threat in the wake of an orbital hypersonic weapon test that elicited public worries from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. “What we…