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Washington, D.C.—The leader of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) will participate in the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next week to advocate for federal employees. NTEU National President Tony Reardon, of Mount Airy, Md., was elected as a delegate in the Maryland Democratic primary. “I’m proud to be representing the state of ...

Hollywood, Fla.—The National Treasury Employees Union’s (NTEU) next leader will be Tony Reardon, a 25-year NTEU veteran who most recently served as the union’s National Executive Vice President. Delegates to NTEU’s 55th national convention chose Reardon today to serve as the union’s next National President. Reardon received 89 percent of the votes cast and ...

Hollywood, Fla.—National President Colleen M. Kelley, a major figure in the U.S. labor movement, addressed members of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) for the last time Monday before she retires on Aug. 13. Her successor will be elected tomorrow. In a fiery, heartfelt speech, Kelley urged delegates attending NTEU’s 55th biennial National ...

Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) announced today that NTEU National President Colleen M. Kelley will be retiring following the union’s 2015 National Convention in August. In a memo sent to NTEU Chapter Presidents, President Kelley thanked the NTEU leaders saying she was “in awe every day” of the work they do against great odds. ...

Washington, D.C.—Delegates to the 53rd National Convention of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees today re-elected Colleen M. Kelley to her fourth, four-year term as president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). Delegates from agencies throughout government and from across the country re-elected Kelley by a margin of 86 ...

New York—By an overwhelming margin, delegates to the 51st National Convention of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees have re-elected, for a third term, the union’s top officers—National President Colleen M. Kelley and National Executive Vice President Frank D. Ferris. Both were first elected to their positions in August 1999. “I’m ...

Washington, D.C.—Acting as lead counsel for a coalition of five unions, attorneys from the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today forcefully argued for a preliminary injunction that would prohibit the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from implementing new personnel regulations until the unions’ legal challenges to those regulations are ...

Washington, D.C.—The leaders of unions representing tens of thousands of employees of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today expressed their very great disappointment at the abrupt ending by DHS of the statutorily-established meet-and-confer period over proposed new personnel regulations for the department. “There is much more important work that not ...

Washington, D.C.—A government report that claims savings from contracting out activities by federal agencies was derided today as “fiction” by the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) made the claim in a report to Congress about the costs to federal agencies of contracting out work. ...

Washington, D.C.—The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) strongly supports legislation that would help ensure retirement income security for a large number of federal employees hurt by two provisions in current law, the leader of the nation’s largest independent union told a congressional committee today. In testimony submitted to the Social Security ...

Washington, D.C: -- The head of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) said today he is pleased to see the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) moving ahead with its much-needed plan to modernize its technology, and he called on both the agency and the contractor to work closely with NTEU and IRS employees on all aspects of the multi-year project. “The focus ...

Washington, D.C: -- The nation's largest independent union of federal workers today applauded President Clinton's allocation of the January 1 federal employees' pay raise into across?the?board and locality components, but repeated its earlier contention that the overall raise fails to close the dangerous gap between public and private sector pay. Robert M. ...

Washington, D.C: -- The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) and the Department of Energy (DOE) signed an agreement today on a new, four?step performance appraisal system at DOE headquarters that will use job standards developed with substantial input from employees. NTEU President Robert M. Tobias, who praised the efforts of Energy Secretary Bill ...

Washington, D.C.The long-time leader of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) will join Washington's American University as Practitioner?in?Residence where he will teach and study a wide range of issues dealing with the implementation of public policy. NTEU President Robert M. Tobias, who is not seeking re?election next month after 16 years as head of ...

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 prospective loss of nearly 2,000 scientific and technical employees of the Department of Energy (DOE) over the next five years “should serve as yet another wake-up call” to the need for improved federal pay and adequate agency funding, the head of the union representing DOE employees said today. President Colleen M. Kelley of the ...

Washington, D.C.—The concept of improving government service to the public is one that federal employees have long supported, but without adequate funding for federal agencies, it will remain “a most difficult goal to achieve,” the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers said today. In commenting on a lengthy report by the federal ...

Philadelphia, PA—The leader of the union representing some 150,000 federal employees told more than 350 delegates to the organization’s national convention today that they and every member of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) “must prepare for a coordinated, grassroots stand against the arbitrary contracting out of federal jobs.” In her keynote ...

Las Vegas, Nevada-In her first major address as National President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), Colleen M. Kelley today pledged to continue on NTEU's long-time path of "using all of the tools available to us" to improve the lives of those represented by the nation's largest independent federal union. The newly-elected NTEU National ...

Las Vegas, Nevada - Delegates to the National Treasury Employees Union's (NTEU) 47' National Convention have overwhelmingly elected Colleen M. Kelley to lead the nation's largest independent federal sector union. Kelley, who becomes NTEU national president after service as the union's national executive vice president, received 93 percent of the votes cast. ...