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Washington, D.C. –The leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees today called on House members to reject the payroll tax holiday bill, H.R. 3630, because it unfairly singles out federal employees to offset fully half the cost of the bill’s provision extending unemployment compensation benefits while there are no offsets for the ...
Washington, D.C. –The Federal Postal Coalition, representing five million federal and postal employees and retirees, is calling on the House of Representatives to reject pending transportation legislation containing a provision that funds portions of the bill with cuts to federal pensions. The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) is a member of this ...
Washington, D.C. –The head of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today called outrageous a congressional plan to fund an extension of unemployment compensation benefits as part of a payroll tax holiday bill with cuts totaling $15 billion to federal employee pensions. “It is absolutely outrageous that federal employees—already sacrificing $60 billion ...
Washington, D.C. –The head of the union representing more than 24,000 frontline homeland security employees called on Congress to provide Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with the staffing and resources needed to properly secure, regulate and facilitate trade at our nation’s ports of entry (POEs) and collect the revenue the government needs. “Customs ...
Washington, D.C. — National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) President Colleen M. Kelley agreed with one major conclusion of a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report—that highly-educated federal workers earn significantly less than their private sector counterparts—but cautioned against accepting the report as a definitive statement on federal ...
Washington, D.C.— Today, the Senate took the right course of action in defeating, for the second time, an onerous proposal by Senate Republicans that would have funded a payroll tax holiday by punishing middle-class federal employees while failing to ask anything of our nation’s wealthiest, said the leader of the National Treasury Employees Union ...
Washington, D.C.—A proposal by Senate Republicans which indicates a clear determination to fund a payroll tax holiday on the backs of middle-class federal workers while shielding the wealthiest among us from any sacrifice at all drew sharp criticism today from the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees. In a letter to senators, ...
Washington, D.C.—The Federal-Postal Coalition—a group that includes the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU)—today warned that the negative effects of a Senate Republican proposal targeting federal employees and their agencies would be felt throughout the economy and very likely lead to private sector job loss and wage deflation. In a letter to senators, ...
The leader of the nation’s largest independent federal employees union today called on members of Congress to reject legislation that proposes an ill-advised reduction of the federal workforce threatening vital government services. “This bill is simply wrongheaded, misguided and based on false assumptions,” said Colleen M. Kelley, president of the National ...
Washington, D.C. — The president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) condemned a misguided bill approved today by a House committee that threatens vital government services that the American people depend on and expect. The bill, H.R. 3029, sponsored by Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), seeks a 10 percent reduction of the federal workforce by ...
Washington, D.C. —The leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees today voiced her strong opposition to super committee recommendations by the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that would severely impact the pay and retirement of federal employees. President Colleen M. ...
Washington, D.C.—The leader of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) has urged members of Congress to reverse proposed budget reductions to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding that would cost billions in lost revenue to the Treasury, undermine the ability to crack down on tax evaders, and negatively impact vital services that taxpayers depend on. In ...
Washington D.C.—Despite a barrage of steady attacks on federal workers, a government-wide survey of employees shows the federal workforce to be committed and dedicated to its work—even as fewer than 50 percent of respondents believe they have the resources necessary to do their jobs effectively. The annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey is administered by ...
Washington, D.C. — Already working under a two-year pay freeze and facing potential increases in pension contributions, federal employees and retirees will see an average 3.5 percent increase in their health insurance premiums in 2012. The overall premium, including both employees and government contributions, increased 3.8 percent. “While the increase is ...
Washington, D.C. — The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today criticized a pending Senate amendment that would increase Border Patrol agents on the southwest border by reducing positions elsewhere in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) including the already understaffed ports of entry. “Congress cannot continue to rob Peter to pay Paul under the ...
Washington, D.C. —The leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees today expressed her strong opposition to the administration’s debt reduction proposal provision that calls for $21 billion in ‘reforms’ to civilian federal employee benefit programs by asking federal employees to make higher contributions toward their ...
A Senate committee has recognized the important role of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by providing more resources to fulfill its critical mission, said the leader of the nation’s largest independent federal employees union. “FDA employees assure that our food supply is protected and that drugs, vaccines and medical devices are safe and effective,” ...
Washington, D.C.—The head of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees has called on the congressional deficit-reduction super-committee to oppose proposals adversely affecting the pensions or health programs of federal workers and to help maintain an adequate federal workforce. In a letter to each of 12 members of the Joint Select Committee ...
Washington, D.C. – Proposed cuts in fiscal 2012 funding of more than $458 million for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seriously jeopardizes the agency’s ability to collect the nation’s revenue and assist taxpayers, said the leader of the union representing IRS employees. The proposed cut of 3.7 percent from the fiscal 2011 level for the IRS is contained in ...
Washington, D.C.—Senate approval of debt ceiling-deficit reduction legislation sets the stage for President Obama to sign the historic measure, thus avoiding a first-ever default on the nation’s debt, but does little to dampen the uncertainty federal employees feel about the ultimate impact on them and their agencies, the head of the largest independent union ...