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                Chairman Amodei, Ranking Member Cuellar and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to provide this testimony. As National 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 ...

Chairman Murphy, Ranking Member Britt, 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 employees at 34 federal agencies, including over 675 instructors and support personnel at the Federal Law ...

WASHINGTON – Customs and Border Protection, already short-staffed at the ports, must dramatically ramp up hiring before the number of officer retirements more than triples in 2028, according to the National Treasury Employees Union. To prepare for the massive loss of veteran CBP Officers, the agency needs additional resources over the next three years to ...

WASHINGTON – Federal agencies would be better equipped to compete for workers with improvements to pay, benefits, flexibility, protections and hiring, according to testimony submitted to Congress today by NTEU National President Doreen Greenwald. “It is essential for the federal government to recruit and retain the best and brightest to provide quality ...

WASHINGTON – Any future administration determined to politicize the federal workforce will not be able to randomly fire career civil servants without cause under new regulations proposed by NTEU and finalized today by the Office of Personnel Management. “With these regulations, President Biden’s administration has strengthened the guardrails around the ...

WASHINGTON – Federal agencies considering moving offices to distant locations would have to first consult employees, analyze the cost and ensure that the move would not result in massive staff departures or loss of diversity, under requested regulations endorsed by NTEU. A pending petition with the Office of Personnel Management urges OPM to establish rules to ...

WASHINGTON – National Treasury Employees Union members from around the country arrive on Capitol Hill this week to speak with their elected representatives about issues and legislation that are important to their paychecks, their families and their workplaces.   The NTEU Legislative Conference opened this morning with remarks by NTEU National President Doreen ...

WASHINGTON – Federal employees across the country would receive an average 7.4 percent pay increase in 2025 under legislation introduced this week in Congress, a strong sign that lawmakers value the federal workforce and its important contributions to the American public.  The Federal Adjustment of Income Rates (FAIR) Act is sponsored by Sen. Brian Schatz of ...

WASHINGTON – Federal employees will receive an average 5.2 percent pay increase next year, the highest raise for the federal workforce in 43 years (see the Office of Personnel Management 2024 pay tables).  “This is a well-deserved increase for our country’s federal workforce,” said NTEU National President Doreen Greenwald. “The data shows that federal salaries ...

WASHINGTON – Federal employees on average earned 27.54 percent less than private sector workers in similar jobs this year, according to an analysis released today by the Federal Salary Council.  The disparity has grown significantly in just one year, from 24.09 percent in 2022.  “The alarming new pay gap proves what federal employees have been feeling all ...

“One of the most important things the CFPB does is protect servicemembers and veterans,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, in his opening statement at a Nov. 2 hearing on financial protections for servicemembers and their families. Brown pointed to a 2006 Department of Defense report showing that payday, auto title, ...

WASHINGTON – A diverse coalition of labor unions, anticipating future threats to politicize the federal workforce, has joined NTEU in urging the Office of Personnel Management to adopt new regulations that safeguard the merit-based civil service and the Constitutional rights of frontline federal employees.   In comments filed with OPM today, the 14 unions ...

Chairman Green, Ranking Member Thompson, distinguished members of the Committee, 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 29,000 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers, Agriculture Specialists and trade enforcement and ...

Washington D.C. – The political failure to re-open the federal government has become untenable for federal employees who cannot wait any longer for the paychecks they are owed, NTEU National President Tony Reardon said today. Since last week, Reardon has escalated his demands that Congress and the administration find a way to pay federal employees ...