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Washington, D.C.—A key member of the congressional leadership today urged members of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers to explain to the American people across the country why it’s so important for the views of federal employees on workplace issues to be heard. “No one is better versed in the details” of federal programs and issues ...
Washington, D.C.—When more than 400 National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) chapter leaders and activists from around the country meet with their federal legislators this week, they will carry with them the concerns and views of tens of thousands of federal workers on issues that impact the entire nation. The issues range from the privatization of federal ...
Washington, D.C.—Proposed changes to regulations by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) simply reinforce an empty gesture made by Congress last year that leaves federal employees in a second-class status when it comes to protesting government contracting out decisions, the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers said ...
Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision permitting government agencies to exempt themselves from a federal law requiring them to pay overtime to federal employees. In an amicus brief filed in a class action suit involving attorneys of the Department of Justice ...
Washington, D.C.—In the face of a growing atmosphere of suppressing of employee voices in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) has asked an independent federal agency to uphold the right of federal workers to speak freely about matters impacting public safety and security. The union’s friend-of-the-court ...
Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) will ask a federal court to declare unlawful—and to prevent the implementation of—final personnel regulations stripping meaningful collective bargaining and other rights from all of the civilian employees of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In a suit to be filed in U.S. District Court for ...
The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) strongly believes the actions of U.S. Special Counsel Scott Bloch warrant an investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) into possible violations of civil service laws and possible misuse of federal funds. Six senior members of the House of Representatives have requested that GAO conduct such an ...
Washington, D.C.—The head of the largest independent union of federal employees today sent a letter to David Safavian, the new Administrator for the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, seeking a meeting to discuss administration policy and priorities regarding the outsourcing of federal work to private contractors. In the letter, National Treasury Employees ...
Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) has filed a national grievance in response to a proposed reduction-in-force (RIF) of 14 Internal Revenue Service nurses, charging the agency with violating a number of laws and the NTEU-IRS contract in displacing the federal nurses. NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley called on the IRS to halt ...
Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) has asked an arbitrator to issue a stay, blocking the Internal Revenue Service from using educational requirements that violate both federal law and the NTEU-IRS contract to hire hundreds of new employees. Despite a ruling earlier in July 2004 that the IRS’s educational requirements for the ...
Washington, D.C.—The nation’s largest independent union of federal workers today sued the federal government, claiming violation of its members’ First Amendment rights to protest reductions-in-force and outsourcing of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) jobs. The General Services Administration (GSA) denied an August rally permit, claiming the purpose of the rally ...
Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) asked a federal court to stop the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from illegally using appropriated funds to turn over the work of agency mailroom employees to the private sector without allowing federal workers to compete to keep the work in-house. If NTEU’s motion for summary judgment is granted, ...
Washington, D.C.—The leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers today expressed her disappointment and concern at removal by a House-Senate Conference Committee from 2005 funding legislation of “an important common sense provision” that would help provide a more fair process for deciding whether to contract out federal jobs. “It is ...
Washington, D.C.—The nation’s largest independent union of federal workers today joined with other federal employee organizations in endorsing the re-election bids of four members of Congress from Maryland who have been particularly supportive of federal workers—Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Reps. Steny Hoyer, Chris Van Hollen and Albert Wynn. President Colleen ...
Washington, D.C.—In the face of an anti-worker administration, the only real chance federal employees have of making significant positive changes in their work environment “is a change in administration,” the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers told a rally of some 300 New England federal workers at Boston’s historic Faneuil ...
Washington, D.C.—The leader of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today welcomed approval by the House of Representatives of an amendment to a major spending bill that could ensure that government agencies use a fair public-private process when considering whether to privatize federal jobs. NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley welcomed bipartisan ...
Washington, D.C.— The leader of the nation's largest independent union of federal workers applauded action taken today by a Senate subcommittee that would provide federal civilian employees with a 3.5 percent pay increase in 2005 and overturn unfair revisions to the rules that govern contracting out of federal work to an unaccountable private sector. "There ...
Washington, D.C.—The leader of the union representing tens of thousands of Internal Revenue Service employees today called “an important step in the right direction” approval by the full House of Representatives of an amendment that would help safeguard the privacy of taxpayer information by preventing the IRS from hiring private contractors to collect ...
Washington, D.C.—The result of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) decision to retain in agency hands the work of providing forms and publications internally and to the public while effectively forcing the closing of two of its three distribution facilities will be reduced service to everyone, the head of the union representing IRS employees said today. The IRS ...
Washington, D.C.—Despite strenuous and lengthy union efforts to get the Internal Revenue Service to restructure its information technology operation in ways that would avoid layoffs, the agency instead made “an unnecessary and unfortunate choice” that will cost the jobs of at least 218 IT workers in ten sites across the country, the leader of the union ...