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Washington, D.C.—Congress should take immediate steps to increase the accountability of the federal contractor workforce and determine whether they are delivering the services they promised, on time and within budget, the head of the National Treasury Employees Union today told lawmakers at a congressional hearing on contracting out. “Even though more dollars ...
Washington, D.C.— In a letter to the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the leaders of the two largest unions of federal workers have expressed their “profound concern about the strong pro-contractor bias” shown by the Bush administration in connection with several issues dealing with the contracting out of federal jobs. Presidents Colleen ...
Washington, D.C.— The announcement by Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont that he will leave the Republican Party “holds the potential for a healthy and more thorough review of the agenda of the Bush administration,” the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers said today. Sen. Jeffords has said he will serve as a political independent, ...
Washington, D.C.—President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today lashed out at a Bush administration proposal to divert into the general treasury $207 million in fee revenue generated by the Patent and Trademark Office, calling it “a disastrous and reckless plan.” NTEU represents about 2,250 PTO employees. Kelley said NTEU ...
Washington, D.C.—In a letter to a key member of Congress, President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) urged that a congressional review of the contracting out of governmental services focus on “the problems of waste and overstated savings” resulting from “the lack of accountability” in the current system. In a letter to Rep. ...
Washington, D.C.—The head of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers today sharply criticized the Bush administration for proposing steps that almost certainly would expand federal contracting out, a move that came only two days after establishment of an independent panel mandated by Congress to review the policies and procedures governing ...
Washington, DC - NTEU National President Colleen M. Kelley said a reported proposed pay increase of 3.6 percent for federal civilian workers in 2002 is "unconscionable," following reports that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is directing agencies to plan their 2002 budgets with a 3.6 percent raise for employees. "In this time of great budget ...
Washington, D.C.-The labor-management partnership effort that has propelled the most far-reaching modernization of a government agency in more than 50 years was honored last night with a Hammer Award from the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR). The award-a $6 hammer, a ribbon and a note from Vice President Al Gore, all in an aluminum ...
Washington, D.C.-A sharp decline in enforcement actions by the Internal Revenue Service over the past year, including audits of tax returns, is "very strong evidence" of the need for Congress to provide the IRS with the additional funds it needs to meet its varied and critical responsibilities to the nation's taxpayers, including not just enforcement of the ...
Washington, D.C.-With another in a long string of successful organizing victories in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) now is the exclusive collective bargaining agent for every union-eligible employee in this key government agency. In the most recent successful vote, which was tabulated today by ...
Washington, D.C.-The head of the nation's largest independent union of federal employees today called on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to "take swift and decisive action" to contain escalating health care premiums for federal employees, retirees and their families. President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) said a ...
Washington, D.C.-The right to retire at age 50 after 20 years of service is a benefit the U.S. Congress has given to FBI agents, firefighters, nuclear materials handlers, and air traffic controllers. It is a benefit, according to the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), that should be extended to U.S. Customs Service inspectors, canine enforcement ...
Washington, D.C.-The head of the nation's largest independent union of federal employees told a Washington seminar of public and private sector customer service experts that the key to improved service in the federal sector is to be found in the strong link between employee satisfaction with their jobs and customer satisfaction with the agency's ...
Washington, D.C.-The president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today called for "a moratorium on any further contracting out" of federal government services until there is "a full accounting" of the size, nature and cost of the contractors who make up what has been decreed "the federal government's shadow workforce." NTEU President Colleen M. ...
Washington, D.C.-President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today said NTEU stands prepared to help President-elect George W. Bush "fully understand and appreciate" the contributions of federal workers to the nation. In the wake of Mr. Bush's apparent victory in the closest presidential election in U.S. history, Kelley said ...
Washington, D.C.-In a significant development moving a long-running special rates case substantially forward, the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today told a federal judge it has "reached agreement on the core issues" with the Department of Justice. NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley said the parties "are committed to promptly produce a written ...
Washington, D.C. - Employees of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) voted yesterday to name the nation's largest independent federal employees union their exclusive representative in the workplace. By a vote of 132 to 9 the employees of the agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) became the newest ...
Washington, D.C.--The head of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today said a federal report "debunks the myth of poor performance by federal employees," and that it underscores the need for sharply-expanded training for federal agency managers in the art of establishing a workplace environment that is supportive of successful employee ...
Washington, D.C.-There is no stronger evidence of the positive potential for federal sector labor-management partnership than the role employees are playing in the most ambitious modernization and restructuring ever of the massive Internal Revenue Service, the leader of the union representing IRS employees said today. President Colleen M. Kelley of the ...
Washington, D.C.-The leader of the union representing more than 98,000 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees today said she welcomes the commitment of the Treasury Department's tax inspector general "to avoid both the appearance and the reality of quotas" in investigating allegations of misconduct against IRS employees. President Colleen M. Kelley of the ...