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Washington, D.C.—There is a crisis in public service which the nation “cannot hope to solve absent a commitment to establish a fair process for setting federal salaries” that makes government employment competitive with the private sector, the leader of the largest independent union of federal employees said today. President Colleen M. Kelley of the National ...

Washington, D.C.—More than 350 NTEU local union leaders and activists from around the country gathered in Washington, D.C., for the opening session of the union’s annual legislative conference today. Attendees at the morning session heard from Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), ranking member of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), ...

Washington, D.C.—President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today said she is greatly disappointed with the administration’s proposed budget for fiscal 2004. She criticized the administration in particular for failing to recognize the importance of civilian-military pay parity, for proposing to make it easier to contract out ...

Washington, D.C.—As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officially begins its operations today, the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) stands ready to share ideas that will contribute to its success, NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley said. NTEU represents some 12,000 employees of the Customs Service who will be among the 170,000 employees from 22 ...

Washington, D.C.—The greatest impediment to a higher performing Internal Revenue Service workforce is the agency’s sharply increased movement toward having government contractors perform its important work, including tax collection, the leader of the union representing IRS employees told the public-private IRS Oversight Board today. President Colleen M. ...

Washington, D.C.—The leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees today called “outrageous and just plain wrong” a decision by the administration, as carried in media reports, to reinstate substantial cash bonuses for political appointees at the same time it was limiting the 2003 pay raise for rank-and-file civilian federal ...

Washington, D.C.—The necessary first step in any successful effort to reshape the federal government has to be a full accounting of the massive and growing contractor workforce that is increasingly performing the work of the American people, the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees said today. President Colleen M. Kelley of ...

Washington, D.C.—There are meaningful ways to improve the federal government’s contracting process, the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers said today, but revisions proposed by the administration to that process fall short. The government’s reckless proposals are a missed opportunity that does little more than eliminate the ...

Washington, D.C.— Legislation passed last night by the Senate to establish a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a “great disappointment” and is most notable not for what the bill contains, but for what is missing, NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley said. “The homeland security bill passed by the House and the Senate leaves employees who will transfer ...

Washington, D.C.—The president of the union representing some 98,000 employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today expressed the willingness of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) to work with newly-named IRS commissioner-designate Mark Everson on the “continuing and very important issues” facing the IRS and its employees. Everson, deputy ...

Washington, D.C.—The results of the midterm elections present federal employees with “both opportunities and challenges,” particularly on the key matter of educating newly-elected legislators about the substantial contributions to the nation of the federal workforce, the leader of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) said today. “The work of NTEU on ...

Washington, D.C.— The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) required latest FAIR Act submissions by federal agencies to include for the first time a listing of federal jobs considered “inherently governmental.” National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen M. Kelley said while the administration is pushing ahead with its plans to create a “one-stop ...

Washington, D.C.— The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today announced proposed changes in contracting out rules that would put federal workers and American taxpayers at a great disadvantage when it comes to public-private competition for federal government work. In announcing draft proposals in the rules governing competitions between the private sector ...

Washington, D.C.— While the U.S. Customs Service admits it is 4,700 personal radiation detectors short of what is needed for front-line employees, President Bush continues to erroneously claim that the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) has or would block their distribution and use, said NTEU National President Colleen M. Kelley. “President Bush has ...

Washington, D.C.— Hoping to hit a home run for the administration in opposing the Nelson-Chafee-Breaux bipartisan compromise amendment to homeland security legislation pending in the Senate, a group of federal senior executives struck out in its understanding of what the amendment would do. Strike One: In a letter to senators, the Senior Executive ...

The Homeland Security debate has resulted in the Administration and some members of Congress making inaccurate statements at public events and to the media. There have been several unwarranted attacks on the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) and the some 12,000 U. S. Customs inspectors and canine enforcement officers represented by NTEU. The attached ...

Washington, D.C.—The president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) has taken sharp issue with an administration suggestion that, despite House and Senate rejection of its quota-driven plan to contract out hundreds of thousands of federal jobs, it may try to move even more jobs to the private sector. “With public pronouncements like that,” said ...

Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) “cannot and will not” support any provision that permits the president to strip federal employees of their union rights “by simply submitting a report to Congress,” said NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley. As Senate Republicans began efforts to weaken homeland security legislation advanced by Sen. ...

Washington, D.C.—The fight to prevent the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) from cutting one-third of its Trademark attorney workforce at the end of this month is “far, far from over,” National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) President Colleen M. Kelley told a boisterous noon rally of union members outside the Crystal City, VA, headquarters of PTO. “We are ...

Washington, D.C.—Today’s bipartisan approval by the full House of Representatives of an amendment prohibiting the use of numeric quotas to contract out the jobs of federal workers sends a clear signal to the administration to stop efforts to arbitrarily open up 425,000 federal jobs to the private sector, the head of the nation’s largest independent federal ...