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Washington, D.C.—A new era begins on Sunday, July 6, for thousands of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers (CBPOs) who—thanks to the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU)—will begin receiving an enhanced law enforcement officer (LEO) retirement benefit. On Sunday, the new enhanced LEO retirement benefit program won by NTEU gets underway. The ...

Washington, D.C.—The House Appropriations Committee today provided strong support for an NTEU-backed 3.9 percent pay raise for federal civilian employees next year in its markup of the fiscal 2009 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill. This would match the 2009 raise for members of the military moving through Congress and continue the ...

Washington, D.C.—The head of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) described as timely and necessary legislation introduced today by Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) that would boost to 70 cents per mile the reimbursement rate for the personal use of a vehicle for business reasons. The current rate set by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is 50 ½ cents per ...

Washington, D.C.— The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees, today strongly endorses the candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois to be president of the United States. NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley said that Sen. Obama has supported the needs and interests of working men and women at the ...

Washington, D.C.— The leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees condemned the widespread use of the Federal Career Intern Program (FCIP) before a key Senate committee today, saying the program narrows the applicant pool and creates a perception of unfair and arbitrary treatment. According to the Merit Systems Protection Board ...

Washington, D.C.—The latest Office of Management and Budget (OMB) report on federal contracting claims implausible savings, failing to account for substantial losses in dollars, morale and performance, said the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees. The reality of this administration’s failed contracting out initiative is one ...

Washington, D.C.—Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) at one of the nation’s busiest airports took full advantage yesterday of an opportunity to review a range of workplace issues—including the pressing need for collective bargaining rights—with one of the most influential members of the House of Representatives on homeland security matters. The meeting, ...

Washington, D.C.—The only way to deal with the massive morale crisis among employees at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), made clear in a recent survey of TSA workers, is to grant them collective bargaining rights, National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) President Colleen M. Kelley said. The union represents TSA employees at three major ...

Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit seeking a range of documents from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) as an integral part of a comprehensive union effort to determine whether proficiency tests administered to the screener workforce are fair, valid and free from ...

Washington, D.C.—U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) must be provided with the funding necessary to boost personnel to levels recommended by the agency’s own staffing model, the leader of the union representing thousands of homeland security employees said in testimony submitted yesterday to a key House appropriations subcommittee. National Treasury ...

Washington, D.C.—Federal employees understand issues of government “in a way that only those so close to the epicenter can,” the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees told the opening session of the union’s annual legislative conference today. President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) called on ...

El Paso, Texas — The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) needs to add hundreds of officers to its El Paso operations, and thousands more nationwide, to fully staff its border ports of entry while, simultaneously, managing for contingencies and allowing time for mandated training. “I do not have to tell the people of El Paso that there are severe ...

Detroit—In protest of plans to move technology work out of Detroit, local employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) held an informational picket today to raise public awareness about the agency’s plan to shut down the mainframe database at the Detroit Computing Center and transfer all related work out of state. Members of the National Treasury Employees ...

Washington, D.C. — The leader in the fight to end the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) program of private tax collection today called on the House of Representatives to approve legislation that would repeal the agency’s authority to continue its costly program that puts taxpayers’ sensitive and private information at great risk. The House is expected to vote ...

Washington, D.C. — After helping turn back an ill-advised effort by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to close more than half its laboratories, FDA employees have now, in addition, won the first four of 13 planned public-private competitions for their jobs. While welcoming—and not being at all surprised by—the result of the outsourcing competitions, ...

Washington D.C. — If it is going to meet its workforce requirements in the face of potentially large looming retirements, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) must do a much better job of addressing the needs of its employees, including a focus on their low morale caused, in part, by the agency’s efforts to contract out their work, the leader of the union ...

Washington, D.C.—The leader of the union representing thousands of FDA employees today applauded increased congressional scrutiny of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plan to study the possible contracting out of more than 300 positions to the private sector. On Friday, Reps. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) and Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), chairman of the House ...

Washington, D.C. — As it did a year ago, an independent federal advisory body closely attuned to the views of the nation’s taxpayers has called—in unambiguous and forceful language—for an end to an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) program of using private sector debt collectors to pursue tax payments. “The IRS should abandon all plans to outsource any tax ...

Washington D.C. — At a time when the nation is justifiably wary of the safety of a wide variety of imported products, it makes no sense whatsoever for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider contracting to the private sector the work of more than 300 positions, the leader of the union representing FDA employees said today. “I think it is a ...

Runaway federal contracting is a shell game masking the true costs of government to America’s taxpayers and handing the crucial work of the government to a less accountable workforce. I would suggest that administration officials are the ones spinning tales of wildly speculative savings to promote an agenda of turning as much work as possible over to the ...