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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 ...
Long Beach, CA?Resources for front?line employees of the Customs Service are falling far short of what is needed to keep up with "dramatic increases" in trade volume, drug?smuggling and public travel, and that puts at serious risk the ability of this vital government agency to do its job, the leader of the union representing Customs employees said ...
Washington, D.C.-President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today expressed her support of the action by the Senate Appropriations Committee to roll back increased retirement contributions by federal employees and to extend for another year a program of child care subsidies in the federal workplace. The provisions were ...
Washington, D.C.-The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), one of the first major labor unions to endorse Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman's initial bid for the Senate, today strongly endorsed his selection to be presidential candidate Al Gore's vice presidential running mate. NTEU National President Colleen M. Kelley said Senator Lieberman, who is ...
Washington, D.C.-The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) and the federal government have set a target date of Nov. 30, 2000, for reaching an agreement on how to pay current and former "special rate" federal employees the millions of dollars in back pay owed them, NTEU National President Colleen M. Kelley announced today. More than 188,000 special rate ...
Chairman McSally, Ranking Member Vela, distinguished members of the subcommittee; thank you for the opportunity to provide this testimony. As President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I have the honor of leading a union that represents over 25,000 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers and trade enforcement specialists stationed at 328 ...