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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 ...
Washington, D.C.—The leader of the union representing Internal Revenue Service employees today sharply criticized IRS proposals to collect taxes using private collection agencies and a proposal to lay off several thousand agency employees. “The greatest barrier to making cost-effective investment in the IRS workforce is the agency’s increased attempts to ...
Washington, D.C.—Whether the issue is non-competitive pay, the rush to hand jobs over to the private sector, potential loss of collective bargaining and other workplace rights, high medical costs or similar problems, the federal government won’t be able to compete for the high-quality employees it needs without substantial changes, the leader of the nation’s ...
Washington, D.C. -The National Park Service (NPS) is targeting more than 2,600 natural and social science positions for possible outsourcing to the private sector, according to an analysis by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) of the Park Service’s most recent Federal Activities Inventory Reform (FAIR) Act list. The employees in these ...
Washington, D.C.—As a three-day public meeting to explore options for a possible new personnel system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) gets underway, the leader of the largest independent union of federal employees today expressed her hope that the interests of front-line homeland security employees “get full consideration” in the ...
Washington, D.C.—The leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees today applauded approval by a House-Senate conference committee of a 2004 appropriations measure containing a 4.1 percent federal civilian pay raise and expanding employee rights in efforts to keep their jobs from being sent to the private sector. President Colleen M. ...
Washington, D.C.—“We will fight this!” said National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) President Colleen M. Kelley upon receiving notice from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of its reorganization plans that would place at risk jobs in 92 locations. “Most of the employees targeted by these actions are women and minorities who have probably worked for the IRS ...
Washington, D.C.—A plan by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to combine in a single employee the border protection responsibilities held by three highly-skilled specialists raises concerns that this will lead to a serious loss of expertise, the president of the union representing nearly 12,000 DHS employees said today. “It’s unclear to me how having ...
Washington, D.C.—A second administration report seeking to justify its increasing efforts to contract out government jobs to the private sector “adds very little” to a government report earlier this year that failed to provide any meaningful rationale for its massive privatization effort, the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers ...
Washington, D.C.—The administration’s major revisions of the rules covering the contracting of government work to the private sector contain so many flaws and problems, the head of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees said today, that members of a key House committee should work to block their implementation until the contracting process ...
Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that major revisions in the rules covering the contracting of government work to the private sector set forth by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) are illegal. The revisions make it easier for the president to carry out his agenda of shifting ...
Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today applauded approval by the House Appropriations Committee of language calling for civilian-military pay parity in 2004 as well as an amendment requiring the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to report on how federal agencies are paying for OMB’s unfunded mandate that they conduct ...