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News Release
04/30/2002
CAP Majority Report A Missed Opportunity To Improve Federal Contracting Practices, NTEU Leader Kelley Says

Washington, D.C.—President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today said the majority report of the public-private Commercial Activities Panel (CAP), which studied federal contracting out practices, “misses an opportunity to make meaningful recommendations that could measurably improve” the government’s sourcing policies and ...

News Release
07/03/2002
Special Rates Proposed Settlement Gets Preliminary Approval Of Court Of Federal Claims, NTEU’s Kelley Says

Washington, D.C.—A federal judge has given preliminary approval to the proposed settlement of the long-running special salary rates case reached by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) and the Office of Personnel Management, the leader of NTEU said today. Under terms of the settlement, some 212,000 current and former federal employees would share in ...

News Release
06/28/2002
Lack Of Agency Funding, Concerns Over Job Security Prime Factors In Low Workforce Morale, Kelley Says

Lack Of Agency Funding, Concerns Over Job Security Prime Factors In Low Workforce Morale, Kelley Says Washington, D.C.—The leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees said today a new report documenting declining morale among the federal workforce underscores her repeated calls to provide federal agencies and their employees with ...

News Release
04/09/2002
Modification Of Law Unfairly Targeting IRS Workers Is Key To Gaining Benefits Of Agency Modernization, Kelley Says

Washington, D.C.—One of the most important ways to get the full benefits of the modernization effort underway at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is to substantially modify a law that unfairly targets only IRS workers and threatens them with the loss of their jobs, the leader of the union representing IRS employees told a key House subcommittee ...

News Release
04/11/2002
PTO Gains In Productivity, Customer Satisfaction, NTEU’s Kelley Says, But Fee Diversion Still A Problem

Washington, D.C.—While gains have been made in both productivity and efficiency at the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), the leader of the union representing more than 2,300 PTO employees said the agency and its employees could do even more except for the unfair diversion of fee income from patent and trademark applicants into the general treasury. That was ...

News Release
03/18/2002
NTEU President Colleen Kelley Attacks Administration Proposals On A Wide Front

Washington, D.C.—In a wide-ranging and blunt assessment of government efforts to deal with its human capital crisis, the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers today attacked as a major impediment the administration’s “blind targets” for contracting out federal jobs. “Would you seriously consider employment with the federal ...

News Release
03/22/2002
250 NTEU Members Rally At FDIC Headquarters To Show Strong Opposition To Cutback Proposal

Washington, D.C.—In a spirited noontime demonstration, more than 250 members of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) marched and chanted yesterday at the Washington headquarters of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in opposition to agency plans to cut as many as 700 jobs. NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley told the cheering crowd that ...

News Release
03/07/2002
NTEU Ends Successful Legislative Conference With Kelley Encouraging Members To Continue Their Efforts

Washington, D.C.—As the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) concluded a highly-successful and effective legislative conference, NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley encouraged union members from around the country to build on the momentum of their Capitol Hill visits as the key to continued progress on issues of importance not just to the federal workforce ...

News Release
03/01/2002
NTEU President Kelley To Lead Two-Pronged Attack On Federal Contracting Out Next Week

Washington, D.C.—Next Wednesday morning, National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) President Colleen M. Kelley will tell a key Senate committee that the rush to contract out an increasing number of federal jobs is unwise public policy—and at noon she’ll lead a Capitol Hill rally of hundreds of federal employees opposed to the Bush administration’s quota-driven ...

News Release
02/15/2002
Kelley Announces Strong Support For Expanded Law Enforcement Officer Status

Washington, D.C.—The president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) applauded the introduction in the U.S. Senate of legislation that would extend law enforcement officer status to thousands of federal employees whose principal duties involve law enforcement, including more than 13,000 Customs Service and Internal Revenue Service employees ...

News Release
03/05/2002
Americans Answer Question Of Who They Trust By Turning To Federal Workers, NTEU’s Kelley Says

Washington, D.C.—The terrorist attacks of last September focused the attention of Americans on the vital question of who they trust to do the work of the public. And the jobs that were performed in the aftermath of those events have led increasing numbers of people to recognize the value and contributions of government workers, the leader of the nation’s ...

News Release
02/06/2002
Bipartisan Letter From House Members Urges Reversal Of DOJ Executive Order

Washington, D.C.—A bipartisan group of House members today urged President Bush to reverse his decision in an executive order to effectively dissolve two locals unions at the Department of Justice (DOJ), a step supportive of the sharp criticism of the president’s action expressed earlier by the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal ...

News Release
03/06/2002
Kelley Uses Capitol Rally To Define NTEU’s Goals In Fight Against Federal Contracting Out

Washington, D.C.—President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) outlined a determined stand against administration plans to contract out a growing number of federal jobs when she told cheering union members at a Capitol Hill rally that “our goal must be to eliminate arbitrary goals” set by the White House of moving government jobs ...

News Release
03/06/2002
Kelley Calls Administration’s Arbitrary Contracting Quotas “Extreme” And “Risky” Step For The Nation

Washington, D.C.—The administration’s arbitrary quotas for privatizing hundreds of thousands of federal jobs will significantly disrupt operations at such key agencies as the Internal Revenue Service and Customs Service, the head of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers told a Senate committee today. President Colleen M. Kelley of the ...

News Release
01/30/2002
State Of Union Sets Stage For Detailed Look At Administration Priorities In Budget, Kelley Says

Washington, D.C.—The real impact on Americans of the broad plans laid out by President Bush in his State of the Union address will only be known with the release, expected on February 4, of the administration’s proposed fiscal 2003 budget, the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers said today. “This is where and when we will learn ...

News Release
01/29/2002
Adequate IRS Funding And Staffing Levels Critical To Realizing Modernization Benefits, Kelley Says

Washington, D.C.—While modernization of the Internal Revenue Service is “on the right track,” the leader of the union representing IRS employees told a key public-private body today, Congress and the taxpayers won’t realize the full benefits of these efforts unless the IRS has adequate resources, and a “downward trend” in agency staffing is turned ...

News Release
05/25/1999
NTEU Calls House Vote To Cut Customs Pay 12 Percent An "Injustice"That Hurts Both Employees And The Nation

Washington, D.C.-- The president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today sharply criticized as "an injustice that sets back the nation's fight to effectively control its own borders" a vote by the full House to cut the pay of Customs officers by as much as 12 percent. The loss in pay could amount to as much as $5,000 a year for individual ...

News Release
07/22/1999
NTEU Pleased That Proposed OPM Broadbanding Regulations Retain Union, Agency Joint Discretion

Washington, D.C.--The head of the union representing most Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees said today he is pleased that proposed government regulations "don't limit the joint discretion" of his union and the agency "to craft a broadbanding program that fits their needs." President Robert M. Tobias of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) ...

News Release
06/18/1999
Treasury Employees Union Calls For Passage By Senate of Finance Committee Customs Bill

Washington, D.C.-- The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today urged passage by the full Senate of a Customs authorization bill approved earlier this week by a key Senate committee. The committee bill seeks to improve, rather than erode, employee morale. NTEU President Robert M. Tobias said the measure approved by the Senate Finance Committee, consists ...

News Release
06/02/1999
NTEU Supports Brookings Institution Argument That Federal Contractors Mask True Size of Government

Washington, D.C.-- The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today said it supports the contention in a new public policy book that it takes much more to reshape the federal government effectively than merely reducing the number of federal employees and replacing them with outside contractors. NTEU President Robert M. Tobias, an early and vocal critic of ...