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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 ...

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 ...