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  • September 25, 2024
    Project 2025’s plan to gut civil service with mass firings: ‘It’s like the bad old days of King Henry VIII’
  • September 23, 2024
    US government begins preparations for a partial shutdown with one week until deadline – despite agreement
  • September 20, 2024
    NTEU becomes latest federal worker union to endorse Harris
  • September 10, 2024
    Paper-flooded IRS campus once faced closure. Now it’s the model for its modernization plans
  • August 2, 2024
    FLETC could see funding cut amid federal law enforcement shortages
  • July 31, 2024
    NTEU seeks CBP officer hiring surge to offset looming retirement wave
  • July 26, 2024
    Trump’s second-term agenda plans a purge of the federal workforce
  • July 25, 2024
    OPM finalizes rule to ensure temporarily promoted feds are paid properly
  • April 4, 2024
    New rule strengthening federal job protections could counter Trump promises to remake the government
  • April 4, 2024
    Biden administration bolsters protections for federal workers, getting ahead of potential Trump moves
  • March 26, 2024
    More guardrails needed for any potential agency relocations, federal advocates say
  • March 25, 2024
    House conservatives recycle federal worker pay and benefit cuts in budget document
  • March 21, 2024
    Congress calls for more details on federal telework in 2024 spending package
  • March 11, 2024
    Biden proposes 2% raise for feds in 2025 budget
  • March 6, 2024
    Biden order expands federal apprenticeships, reestablishes labor-management forums
  • March 4, 2024
    FLRA: CBP owes backpay to officers denied nightwork premium pay
  • March 4, 2024
    IRS gets pushback on its return-to-office plans — for going too far, and not far enough
  • February 28, 2024
    Trump’s plan to gut civil service protections was harsher than estimated
  • February 27, 2024
    Trump’s White House pushed Schedule F ‘to the extreme,’ union says
  • February 27, 2024
    Schedule F plans show ‘far higher’ impact on federal workforce than first anticipated, NTEU warns
  • February 27, 2024
    One agency’s Trump-era plan included stripping protections from 68% of its workforce
  • February 16, 2024
    Treasury, IRS set 50% return-to-office target for employees to meet ‘governmentwide’ standard
  • February 5, 2024
    Hiring and pay reforms accompany staffing surges in bipartisan border deal
  • February 2, 2024
    ‘Despair’ over IRS service turns to ‘cautious optimism,’ says advocate
  • February 1, 2024
    Federal Housing Finance Agency to kickstart negotiations for first-ever union contract
  • January 30, 2024
    Feds get 7.4% pay raise under congressional Democrats' plan
  • January 20, 2024
    Busy ports of entry deserve more resources, Arizona stakeholders say
  • January 12, 2024
    IRS tells Congress to avoid ‘disruptive’ government shutdown ahead of tax filing season
  • December 22, 2023
    Biden’s historic pay raise for federal workers set to take effect
  • November 28, 2023
    IRS Union to Push for More Telework as Technology Improves
  • November 17, 2023
    Congress again averts a shutdown. What happens next is murky.
  • November 16, 2023
    New locality rates to boost pay for thousands of federal workers
  • November 14, 2023
    The federal pay gap spiked again in 2023
  • November 1, 2023
    Federal labor coalition urges ‘prompt’ finalization of OPM’s anti-Schedule F proposal
  • October 24, 2023
    Meet the new president of a large federal employee union
  • October 19, 2023
    Impasses panel preserves telework levels for FEC bargaining unit workers
  • October 2, 2023
    Congress temporarily averts shutdown, but agencies still feel the pain
  • October 2, 2023
    IRS employee union relieved after gov't shutdown averted
  • September 29, 2023
    A Government Shutdown Appears Imminent — Here’s How Federal Agencies Are Preparing
  • September 28, 2023
    Earlier Government Shutdowns Offer A Glimpse Of What Taxpayers Might Expect From IRS, Other Agencies
  • September 28, 2023
    A government shutdown is looming. How would it affect people in Kansas and Missouri?
  • September 28, 2023
    Thousands of Indiana federal employees brace for another government shutdown
  • September 28, 2023
    Marshall to federal employees on brink of shutdown: ‘We all have to, you know, sacrifice’
  • September 27, 2023
    Federal employees will pay 7.7% more toward health premiums in 2024
  • September 27, 2023
    Kansas City IRS employees worry about looming government shutdown
  • September 27, 2023
    A Government Shutdown Will Have Major Impact on Thousands of Employees
  • September 26, 2023
    Protest signs, food pantry information, letters to Congress: Federal employee unions mobilize on brink of shutdown
  • September 25, 2023
    Government shutdown will put federal employees at risk far beyond D.C., union warns Congress
  • September 20, 2023
    Kevin McCarthy faces pressure as clock ticks down to avoid government shutdown
  • September 18, 2023
    Telework and Schedule F are top of mind for NTEU’s new national president
  • September 15, 2023
    Biden aims to protect federal workers from layoffs
  • August 31, 2023
    Biden makes formal plans for 2024 federal pay raise
  • August 29, 2023
    Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision
  • August 15, 2023
    IRS hiring its way to 90,0000-employee workforce for first time in decade
  • August 10, 2023
    Retiring NTEU president reflects on three decades in organized labor
  • August 8, 2023
    IRS employee union gets new leader
  • August 3, 2023
    DeSantis calls for ‘slitting throats’ in government, escalating rhetoric
  • July 24, 2023
    IRS is ending unannounced visits to taxpayers to protect worker safety and combat scammers
  • July 24, 2023
    I.R.S. Halts Surprise Visits to Homes and Businesses
  • July 17, 2023
    Proposed funding cuts could prevent IRS, Justice and other agencies from meeting their missions, employee groups say
  • July 13, 2023
    Treasury Union Retiring Chief Talks IRS Worker Safety (Podcast)
  • June 27, 2023
    FDIC will call federal employees back to offices in January
  • June 22, 2023
    Draft spending bill cuts telework and bans transgender care for feds, but preserves 5.2% pay raise plan
  • June 15, 2023
    Conservatives: End Annual Across-the-Board Pay Raises for Feds and Cut Benefits
  • June 13, 2023
    HHS, NTEU ‘reset the relationship’ as ink dries on new five-year agreement
  • June 9, 2023
    FLRA Could Be Back to Full Strength With Latest Nomination
  • May 16, 2023
    NTEU Files Brief Supporting CFPB
  • May 9, 2023
    After OMB’s updated telework guidance, federal unions emphasize role of collective bargaining “
  • May 8, 2023
    Brain Drain Threatens the F.D.I.C. and Its Efforts to Regulate Banks
  • May 2, 2023
    Securing America’s Ports of Entry Act reintroduced in bipartisan push to address staffing shortages
  • April 26, 2023
    House GOP Passes Debt Ceiling Bill That Puts Tens of Thousands of Federal Jobs At Risk
  • April 17, 2023
    IRS points to better taxpayer service as taste of what’s to come with $80B overhaul
  • April 11, 2023
    Unions ‘sound the alarm’ over worsening staff attrition at SSA
  • April 6, 2023
    IRS to Hire 30,000 Employees Over the Next Two Years …
  • April 1, 2023
    As taxpayer service improves, IRS staffers say they’re happier at work
  • March 20, 2023
    White House touts ‘significant results’ of task force after 80,000 feds opt to join a union
  • March 14, 2023
    NTEU's Longtime President Will Retire in August
  • March 9, 2023
    5.2% pay raise, blocking future Schedule F and more from the 2024 budget request
  • March 8, 2023
    Biden to propose 5.2 percent federal pay increase, largest in 43 years
  • March 7, 2023
    CFPB Employees Are Proud to Shield Americans from Finance Fraud
  • February 28, 2023
    NTEU prioritizes bills to expand federal pay, benefits, but anticipates challenges ahead in Congress
  • February 27, 2023
    Federal Pay and Benefits Won’t Be Used as a Bargaining Chip in Debt Ceiling Talks, If NTEU Has Any Say
  • February 24, 2023
    IRS tech is so ‘archaic’ the agency struggles to find people to work it
  • February 14, 2023
    IRS nominee faces herculean challenge of modernizing agency
  • February 14, 2023
    New Push for Paid Family and Medical Leave for Federal Employees
  • February 8, 2023
    Lawmakers Try Again to Standardize Cost of Living Raises for Federal Retirees
  • January 26, 2023
    Democrats reintroduce bill to give feds 8.7% average pay raise next year
  • January 20, 2023
    NTEU Urges Congress to Maintain IRS’s New Long-Term Funding
  • January 9, 2023
    House GOP votes to slash IRS funding, targeting pursuit of tax cheats