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The Preventing a Patronage System Act would make sure government employees who were hired in a competitive process based on their skills and qualifications are not replaced with political appointees whose only prerequisite is loyalty to a political ideology. NTEU National President Tony Reardon on Tuesday wrote every member of the U.S. House encouraging them ...

Washington D.C. – Federal employees on average earned 22.47 percent less in 2021 than their counterparts in the private sector, according to new calculations released Friday by the Federal Salary Council.  It was the first update to the pay gap in two years and shows that the federal government remains at a disadvantage when competing for skilled workers in ...

The Preventing a Patronage System Act would prohibit any new classification of federal employees in a way that allows career public servants to be replaced with political appointees. “Our merit-based system is the envy of the world precisely because it ensures the federal government is staffed with people who were hired based on their professional ...

Chairman Connolly, Ranking Member Hice and members of the House Subcommittee on Government Operations, thank you for the opportunity to share the thoughts of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) on how the government can build and support an effective workforce for the future. As National President of NTEU, which represents 150,000 federal workers in ...

The stopgap funding measure passed last night by the Senate would keep those agencies without fiscal 2019 appropriations funded at current levels through Feb. 8.  NTEU is pressing elected officials to do their jobs by keeping all agencies open, with employees paid on time.  A shutdown will not only interrupt important government services, but would severely ...

Washington D.C. – Several federal agencies with employees represented by the National Treasury Employees Union would receive budget increases next year under legislation moving in the House.  “The pattern that has emerged at the start of the appropriations process is that the administration and its allies in Congress are determined to invest in the federal ...

Washington D.C. – The government should consider a second increase in the mileage reimbursement rates for employees who use their own vehicles for business travel, NTEU National President Tony Reardon said in a written request to the IRS Commissioner. The IRS initially raised the rates for 2022 by 2.5 cents, to 58.5 cents per mile, but higher gasoline prices ...

Washington D.C. – Employees at the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management will be represented by the National Treasury Employees Union following the results of a union election announced this week.  The employees voted 116-20 for NTEU to be their exclusive representative, according to election results collected by the Federal Labor Relations ...

Chairman Roybal-Allard, Ranking Member Fleischmann, and 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 29,000 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) CBP ...

Chairman Thompson, Ranking Member Katko, and distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to submit this statement for the record on the FY 2023 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) -- specifically Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) and personnel at the Federal Law Enforcement ...

Washington D.C. – The National Treasury Employees Union is hosting more than 350 union members at this year’s virtual Legislative Conference, where employees from around the country connect with their members of Congress about issues important to the federal workforce.   In today’s opening session, NTEU National President Tony Reardon announced the union’s ...

The House also passed a four-day continuing resolution in case the Senate needs additional time to pass the omnibus bill before the current continuing resolution expires Friday. Many NTEU-represented agencies will see funding boosts under the omnibus bill.  The bill includes $12.6 billion for the IRS, an increase of $675 million above fiscal 2021 levels, ...

Washington D.C. – The IRS has canceled plans to close the Tax Processing Center in Austin, a welcome reprieve for frontline employees in Texas who can now stay on the job tackling the backlog of returns, processing new ones and improving service to all American taxpayers. The National Treasury Employees Union, as early as May 2021, had urged the IRS to ...