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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 ...

Washington D.C. — In a letter to the head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), two senior members of the House have expressed what they described as their “shock” at revelations the agency plans to cut 196 microbiologists, chemists and engineers—some 37 percent of the laboratory analysts in its Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA)—in a proposed ...

Washington D.C. — In the wake of record gas prices that show signs of even further increases, the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees today called on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to make a mid-year upward adjustment in the mileage reimbursement rate for business travel. High gas prices are placing “an especially high ...

Washington D.C. — The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today offered its strong support for pending legislation in both the House and Senate that would restore the rights of federal employees to be protected from workplace discrimination because of their sexual orientation. “These bills underscore the importance of these long-standing protections,” ...

Washington, D.C— In the face of a key Congressional subcommittee hearing about the safety of nation’s food supply, the leader of the union representing thousands of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) employees criticized the agency for continuing to move ahead with its much-maligned national reorganization plan. The plan includes not only closing seven of 13 ...

Washington D.C.—When it comes to the best places to work among 30 large federal government agencies, as gauged by the employees who work there, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is right where it was last year—next-to-last, in 29th place—and that, said the leader of the union representing thousands of DHS employees, is “a ranking the nation can’t ...

Washington, D.C — The head of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today again sharply criticized efforts by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to close seven of its 13 labs nationwide, this time after a tour of the FDA lab in Lenexa, Kan., with Rep. Dennis Moore (D-Kan.). The Lenexa facility is one of the seven labs targeted for closure. “Rep. ...