For Labor and Management, Bargaining Rights Loom Large

President Obama wants to issue an executive order creating panels that would foster greater collaboration between management and labor in federal agencies, but it’s hard to craft a document that pleases both sides.

Union leaders, who had felt good about an early draft, aren’t so happy with a revised proposal from the White House this month. But groups representing managers are glad that the October draft responds to their complaints that the earlier document would gum up...