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Washington, D.C. —As a follow-up to her letter to House members yesterday urging rejection of a fiscal 2012 budget advanced by the chairman of the House Budget Committee, the leader of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) joined with a coalition of other federal employee groups calling for a vote against H. Con. Res. 34. A letter to House members from ...

Washington, D.C. —The civil service in the United States is one of the best in the world, but it cannot survive if drastic cuts in personnel and resources are instituted as proposed in the House Budget Resolution, the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees warned in a letter to House members yesterday. President Colleen M. ...

Washington, D.C.—The leader of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today said NTEU is “strongly in support of” bipartisan legislation that would result in federal workers furloughed in a government shutdown receiving retroactive pay for the duration of their forced absence. “The hundreds of thousands of federal employees who would be forced from ...

Washington, D.C. —Two of the nation’s top unions of federal employees have joined together to urge all their members to call representatives and senators tomorrow, April 5, and voice their strenuous opposition to a government shutdown and to severe budget cuts. ‘Federal Employee Call-In Day’ is jointly sponsored by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) ...

Washington, D.C.—Failure to provide adequate resources and staffing for either the homeland security or trade facilitation missions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is a short-sighted act that threatens the nation’s borders and robs the Treasury of much-needed revenue, the leader of the union representing the 26,000-employee CBP workforce told a ...

Washington, D.C.—While the decision to permit collective bargaining at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) “has energized our Officers,” their union leader said today, the reality remains that TSA must be appropriately funded to perform most effectively its vital mission of helping secure air travel. That means, said President Colleen M. Kelley ...

Washington, D.C. —The Obama administration’s fiscal 2012 budget blueprint takes a common-sense and critically-important longer-term approach to the country’s needs and is, in very large measure, the right budget at the right time, the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees said today. “The federal government has a large role to ...

Washington, D.C.—A House resolution to cut funding for federal agencies to fiscal 2008 levels would have a devastating impact on the job-creating capabilities of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees told a House subcommittee chairman today. President Colleen M. Kelley of the National ...

Washington, D.C. — The ability to deliver critical public service to the American people is seriously threatened if we turn back the clock to 2008 budget levels, said the leader of the nation’s largest independent union. “By failing to support federal employees in their critical missions, these proposed funding cuts would endanger food safety, diminish ...

Washington, D.C. —An important decision by a key administrative agency that the Federal Career Intern Program (FCIP) violates a statute relating to veterans’ preferences illustrates one of the fatal flaws in this program, the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees said today. President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury ...

Washington, D.C. —Once again, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show the gap between the pay of federal employees and workers in the private sector is more than 20 percent—in favor of the private sector—sharply undercutting arguments the federal workforce is overpaid, the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees said ...

Portland, Ore.—The leader of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) met yesterday with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Officers at Oregon’s largest airport to hear firsthand about current issues that are negatively impacting the workplace. The meeting was held at Portland International Airport (PDX) where, earlier this year, NTEU established ...

Washington, D.C. — National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) President Colleen M. Kelley today supported legislation to allow the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to spend an additional $129 million of its revenue on salaries and expenses in fiscal year 2010. The language is contained in a supplemental appropriations measure, H.R. 5874. “With this funding, ...

Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) wants to ensure that merit remains the foundation of the federal hiring process. In testimony to the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia, NTEU said it supports the White House’s efforts to create a prompt and efficient ...

Washington, D.C.-Understaffing and insufficient resources are undermining the ability of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) workforce to fulfill its dual mission of regulating and facilitating international trade, the president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) told lawmakers today. “NTEU is deeply concerned with the lack of resources, both ...

When a pilot a month ago deliberately crashed his private plane into a Texas office building housing some 200 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees, the men and women inside that building reacted with incredible bravery and acts of heroism, the leader of the union representing IRS employees told a House subcommittee today. “I think that hearing what went ...

Washington, D.C.—The head of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today applauded the signing by President Obama of a fiscal 2010 omnibus appropriations measure containing a number of NTEU priorities, including the continuation of a government-wide moratorium on public-private competition for the jobs of federal workers. In addition, the legislation ...

Washington, D.C.—The leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees has sharply criticized a media report implying that federal workers are substantially overpaid compared to their private sector counterparts. “The only meaningful way to measure public and private sector pay against each other is to compare salaries for similar jobs,” ...

Washington, D.C.—The fiscal 2010 homeland security appropriations bill signed into law today by President Obama contains yet another prohibition preventing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from moving ahead with a personnel system that would undercut and erode employees’ workplace rights, the leader of the union representing tens of thousands of ...

Washington, D.C.—Today, for the second time in three months, the leader of the National Treasury Employee Union (NTEU) and a delegation of its Transportation Security Administration (TSA) union leaders met with senior TSA management to continue their work in identifying ongoing workplace issues at TSA. Topics ranged from split shifts and Employee Advisory ...