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Washington D.C. – The National Treasury Employees Union supports the Senate-passed economic rescue package that includes emergency funding for agencies to better protect federal employees as they stay on the job throughout the coronavirus crisis. The House is expected to pass the $2.2 trillion bill Friday and send it to the president for his ...

Checklist Urges Closures of Federal Buildings and More Necessary Safety Steps NTEU is strongly urging the government to take immediate steps to stop the spread of the coronavirus, including closing federal workplaces with more than 50 employees. This falls in line with the advice of the government’s own public health officials. Here is what else NTEU is ...

The CDC announced Sunday that gatherings of 50 or more people should be canceled for the next eight weeks. In order to slow the spread of COVID-19 and protect federal employees and their families, Reardon argued the guidance should immediately be applied to federal workplaces.    "The half-measures taken so far are not enough because too many government ...

NTEU’s stance is your health and safety are paramount and we are in close contact with our chapter presidents across the nation. We have also contacted each of the 33 agencies where we represent employees, requesting: Pandemic plans currently in place; Broadening of telework programs to cover as many employees as possible; Halting all non-essential ...

Chairman Foster, Chairwoman Fletcher, Ranking Members Norman and Weber, and distinguished members of the Subcommittees, thank you for the opportunity for NTEU to make this statement on behalf of the Department of Energy (DOE) employees we represent. As President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I have the honor of leading a union that ...

While emphasizing that the risk to the general public remains low, OPM offered links to the CDC and other federal agencies for up-to-date information on the coronavirus.  The memo further recommends good health habits and “’social distancing’, otherwise known as telework, to help prevent the spread of illness. It’s ironic that the same administration trying to ...

Chairwoman Torres Small, Ranking Member Crenshaw, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to submit this statement for the record. As President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I have the honor of leading a union that represents over 27,000 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) ...

Washington D.C. – The Department of Health and Human Services violated federal labor law when it unilaterally imposed an incomplete contract on its workforce, according to an arbitrator who upheld the unfair labor practice charge filed by the National Treasury Employees Union. The decision from the neutral arbitrator, dated Dec. 12 and delivered recently to ...

NTEU has been locked in a heated dispute over contract negotiations with HHS for more than a year. The union has repeatedly argued that HHS violated the law by bargaining in bad faith and imposing an unfair, one-sided and incomplete contract that employees never ratified. And now, an arbitrator has agreed that HHS had no legal right to impose a partial ...

FEVS, administered by the Office of Personnel Management, asks employees for their views on their work, agencies, supervisors, senior leaders, job satisfaction and work-life programs. The survey also measures employee satisfaction across the government. Last week, OPM released the governmentwide results. NTEU wants to highlight our top three data points from ...

In a memo issued Oct. 8, OPM identified “work-life supports as one of the major drivers of employee engagement.” But, management at some NTEU-represented agencies must have missed the memo. At the Department of Health and Human Services and Social Security Administration, management has worked to eviscerate telework rights that have allowed employees to ...