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In addition to our regular member email updates, NTEU’s website has news, guidance, primers and ways to get involved in our efforts to protect all federal employees amid the pandemic. Dedicated Coronavirus Resource Webpage Updated daily, this page features the latest news from NTEU, the Office of Personnel Management and key documents and information from your ...

Washington D.C. – The National Treasury Employees Union today updated its checklist of steps the government can take to better protect federal employees from coronavirus, showing some progress over the last two weeks but still plenty of tasks that remain unfinished. NTEU issued the list on March 16 in response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

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 ...