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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Washington, D.C: -- The president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today urged a House?Senate conference committee to "move promptly" to resolve their differences on legislation designed to make the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) "a more effective instrument of service" for American taxpayers. Robert M. Tobias said he was gratified that both ...
Washington, D.C.-- As the health of the U.S. economy remains uncertain, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has indicated its intent to move forward with a workforce reduction plan that will eliminate the jobs of some 95 employees in its legal division. The proposed reduction-in-force (RIF) at the nation’s key banking regulatory agency is “risky, ...
Washington, D.C.—The leader of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) said today that NTEU and the Justice Department have made “substantial progress toward completion of a written agreement” that would conclude this phase of the long-running case involving back pay due special rate federal employees. NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley said that part of ...
Washington, D.C.—The results of a survey of federal employees released this week by the Brookings Institution reinforces what the National Treasury Employees Union has long known—that given the tools, resources and training, federal employees are willing and able to perform at the highest levels for the American public. The survey results also reveal a ...
Washington, D.C.—President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today called congressional action federalizing airport security employees “a step forward,” but expressed her disappointment and concern that the full range of conditions of employment for these workers would be at the sole discretion of a political appointee, rather ...