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Washington, D.C.—Elaine D. Kaplan, former Special Counsel in the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), will join the National Treasury Employees Union as Senior Deputy General Counsel on Aug. 2. Prior to her appointment by President Clinton to head OSC, Kaplan, who served in that post from 1998 to May 2003, had been an NTEU staff member for many years, ...

Washington, D.C.—The leader of the union representing Internal Revenue Service employees today strongly supported action by the House Appropriations Committee to require the IRS to provide substantive information justifying layoffs the agency wants to conduct as part of a broad restructuring. The jobs of thousands of IRS employees are at stake. President ...

Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) has won an important arbitration ruling in its lengthy and continuing challenge to an attempt by the Internal Revenue Service to impose arbitrary and unreasonable educational requirements on applicants for positions as IRS Revenue Agents. NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley sharply criticized the ...

Washington, D.C.—As evidence of the folly of the administration’s relentless drive to contract federal work to the private sector, more than 5,000 Internal Revenue Service employees are facing the loss of their jobs even as more than $300 billion in tax dollars owed to the federal government goes uncollected, the leader of the union representing IRS employees ...

Washington, D.C.—In approving a 3.5 percent 2005 pay raise for federal civilian employees, along with language aimed at slowing down runaway contracting out of federal jobs, the House Appropriations Committee “has signaled very clearly” that it understands the important roles these matters play in federal agency recruitment and retention efforts, the head of ...

Washington, D.C.—Bipartisan language accepted today by a key House subcommittee will go a long way toward providing a level play field for federal workers faced with the loss of their jobs to private contractors, the head of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) said. NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley applauded Reps. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Frank Wolf ...

Washington, D.C.—National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) President Colleen M. Kelley today described as “a first step toward positive changes” a bipartisan amendment to the fiscal 2005 Defense Authorization Act that would provide federal employees with the same appeal rights private contractors currently enjoy with respect to agency contracting out ...

Washington, D.C.—While seeking broad authority to make wholesale changes in pay and benefits for federal law enforcement officers, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has failed to address a basic unfairness of the present system: law enforcement officer status that has been long denied to a large bloc of federal employees who daily perform dangerous and ...

Washington, D.C.—The leader of the union representing nearly 14,000 legacy U.S. Customs Service employees in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today urged a key House subcommittee to address a number of critical issues—including the need for additional resources—that impact the ability of these employees to effectively guard the nation’s borders. And ...

Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) strongly supports a call by the head of the General Accounting Office (GAO) for congressional action to guarantee federal workers and their unions the right to protest federal agency decisions to contract work to the private sector, the leader of the union said today. NTEU President Colleen M. ...

Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today filed suit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), seeking to prevent the agency from turning over the work of mailroom employees to the private sector without providing the federal workers the chance to compete for their jobs. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of ...

Washington, D.C.—A government report that claims savings from contracting out activities by federal agencies was derided today as “fiction” by the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) made the claim in a report to Congress about the costs to federal agencies of contracting out work. ...

Washington, D.C.—The leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers today applauded recognition by Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) of the ballooning federal contractor workforce that is largely unaccountable to U.S. taxpayers. “This is the first time in my memory that a presidential candidate has taken serious ...

Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today called on the General Accounting Office (GAO) to correct “a fundamental imbalance” in the government’s contracting out procedures by opening up its bid protest process to federal workers and their union representatives. In a statement to GAO, NTEU expressed its strong support for the legal ...

Washington, D.C.—The president of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers today conducted a spirited Capitol Hill rally of union members demanding an end to the wholesale contracting out of federal jobs and attacks on workers’ collective bargaining rights, and in support of a fair pay raise for federal employees. President Colleen M. Kelley ...

Washington, D.C.—Guidance to federal agencies from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on how to report to Congress about their contracting out activities will lead to unreliable cost estimates—and it provides no mechanism for reporting about deteriorating contractor services, the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers said ...

Washington, D.C.—In just the nine months since the government illegally slanted contracting out rules in favor of the private sector, serious negative effects on federal employees already are clear, the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) will tell a federal court tomorrow. Symptomatic of these effects, NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley said, is a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. —January 14, 2004 — National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) President Colleen M. Kelley called “risky, costly, and unnecessary” the Treasury Department’s proposal to allow the IRS to use private collection agencies to collect federal income taxes. The proposal was included in the Treasury Department’s fiscal year 2005 budget proposals, which ...

Washington, D.C.—The leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees today applauded a bipartisan letter to President Bush from key senators on civil service matters calling for both an equitable pay raise for federal employees in 2005 and a continuation of the principle of military-civilian pay parity. The letter was signed by ...

Washington, D.C.—The nation’s largest independent union of federal workers—the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU)—today strongly endorsed the candidacy of Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts to be president of the United States. In announcing the endorsement, NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley said that throughout his political career, and in particular ...