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Since taking office, the new FLRA majority has issued decisions that narrow the scope of bargaining, strip employees of their collective bargaining rights and make it harder to enforce their rights in the workplace. NTEU continues to alert Congress and the media to this attack on federal employees and their unions.  In a HuffPost article posted Tuesday, ...

Washington D.C. – A summer-long commuting crisis for tens of thousands of federal employees in the Washington region has prompted the administration to encourage more telework and alternative work schedules, a welcome change from recent efforts to curtail the programs. The Office of Personnel Management has asked agencies to expand workplace flexibilities ...

But for many working mothers, there's a disconnect between the platitudes and the reality. We celebrate mothers who strive to meet home and workplace demands, but deny them paid leave when they welcome a new baby and want to stay home for a few months before returning to work. According to the Pew Research Center, most women with at least one young child are ...

Washington D.C. – The Department of Health and Human Services is preparing to impose an unfair, one-sided edict on its frontline employees that will disrupt the workplace and further degrade labor-management relations in the federal government.  The agency informed the National Treasury Employees Union of its intent to put the new terms in place by May 2, ...

NTEU is grateful to have this opportunity to submit this statement of our views on Fiscal Year 2020 appropriations for two agencies under the subcommittee’s jurisdiction where the employees are represented by NTEU -- the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Food and Drug Administration The Administration has ...

Washington D.C. – The administration’s two-year assault on the rights of federal employees escalated when the Trump-appointed Federal Service Impasses Panel mostly rubberstamped the Department of Health and Human Services’ efforts to gut its contract with the National Treasury Employees Union. “HHS Secretary Alex Azar has been railroading his own employees by ...

Washington D.C. – The unfairly abbreviated contract negotiations between NTEU and the Department of Health and Human Services, already contentious, took a more ominous turn when the agency said Thursday that it wants the power to eliminate telework altogether. The continued bad faith bargaining by HHS is drawing even more attention on Capitol Hill as Sen. ...

Washington D.C. – The administration’s scheme to eviscerate the rights of federal employees took another alarming step with a decision that puts Health and Human Services employees at a significant disadvantage in forthcoming contract negotiations. The Federal Service Impasses Panel, over the objection of the National Treasury Employees Union, has now ...