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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 ...
Washington, D.C.?The national president of the union representing Customs Service employees today strongly reiterated her call for Congress to provide Customs with more funding on a continuing basis to allow the border control agency to provide the additional staffing "that so clearly is required along our nation's northern border in this dangerous ...
Washington, D.C.-Higher pay in the form of "special salary rates" for three classifications of federal information technology (IT) workers in grades 5 through 12 is "a good short-term tool" to help the government attract and retain the computer professionals it needs now and over the next few years, the head of the nation's largest independent union of federal ...
Washington, D.C.-The first-ever collective bargaining agreement for employees at the National Center for Health Care Statistics (NCHS) was signed today by National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) National President Colleen M. Kelley and Director Dr. Ed Sondik of NCHS. Included in the agreement is a provision that the agency will bargain over "permissive" ...
Washington, D.C.?In the wake of a report showing substantial tax delinquencies among members of Congress and their staffs, the head of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today urged Congress to act so that those enforcing the nation's tax laws are not treated more harshly than those who write those laws. NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley said the way ...
Washington, D.C.?The results of a congressionally?ordered study on the effectiveness of a law designed to ensure that federally?regulated banks do a better job in making mortgage loans available to low and moderate income families underscores and reaffirms the support the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) has long attached to the program, the union ...
Washington, D.C.?The proposal by Texas Gov. George W. Bush to open the jobs of some 450,000 federal workers?a quarter of the federal workforce?to the private sector would only make worse "an already?costly set of circumstances," the head of the largest independent federal employees union said today. President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury ...