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Washington D.C.  – Critical taxpayer services would be lost under fiscal year 2024 budget cuts approved today by a House subcommittee and opposed by the National Treasury Employees Union.  The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government passed a government spending bill today, over the objections of Democrats, that would ...

Are you interested in improving your workplace? Wondering how NTEU could help you? When you think of union members you might not think of yourself. But increasingly, union members are also lawyers, CPAs, bank examiners, IT experts, scientists, doctors and researchers. The fact is that the quality of your work life can be dramatically improved by union ...

The Public Service Reform Act, reintroduced by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, would make career federal employees at-will employees who can be easily fired and strip them of their civil service protections. The bill would abolish the Merit Systems Protection Board, where federal employees can take their concerns about due process ...

The Administration has requested a 10 percent increase ($372 million above the FY23 enacted level) for the Food & Drug Administration (FDA).  The total FDA budget request is for $7.2 billion of which $3.93 billion would come from funds appropriated by Congress, $2.5 billion from medical products user fees, and $700 million from tobacco user fees.  NTEU ...

The FDA is a staff-intensive organization with a turnover rate two times the government average and 70 percent of its workforce eligible for retirement. NTEU believes expanding employee initiatives like telework, student loan repayments, and childcare subsidies will help recruit and retain employees. The administration’s budget proposal includes easing the ...

Food & Drug Administration The Administration has requested a 10 percent increase ($372 million above the FY23 enacted level) for the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). The total FDA budget request is for $7.2 billion of which $3.93 billion would come from funds appropriated by Congress, $2.5 billion from medical products user fees, and $700 million from ...

Washington D.C.  – After more than 33 years with the National Treasury Employees Union, National President Tony Reardon has announced his intention to retire at the end of his current term. Reardon was initially elected as National President in 2015 and re-elected in 2019. His current term ends on Aug. 10, 2023. Delegates to the union’s National Convention, ...

Washington D.C.  – More than 350 members of the National Treasury Employees Union are on Capitol Hill this week meeting with their senators and representatives about issues that are important to the federal workforce.  The union’s annual Legislative Conference opened this morning with speeches from NTEU National President Tony Reardon and Rep. Bennie Thompson ...

In office after office, they brought frontline perspective to the pressing issues and asked for congressional support of federal employees. “Every conversation you have on the Hill will make a difference in the lives of your fellow union members,” National President Tony Reardon told attendees at NTEU’s Legislative Conference. “Your expertise and knowledge ...

Ahead of the vote, National President Tony Reardon wrote to House members urging them to vote against this bill. The legislation would require every federal agency to return to pre-pandemic telework policies, without regard to union contracts or proven positive results based on actual telework experience. “The so-called Show Up Act is based on false ...

The bill is set for a vote on the House floor this week. The SHOW UP Act would mandate that all federal agencies abandon cost-saving telework programs and return to pre-pandemic telework policies, ending telework for tens of thousands of NTEU-represented employees. “Beyond the clear benefits to taxpayers in reduced leasing costs and increased productivity, ...

We made our voices heard. NTEU prides ourselves on having a strong collective voice, and that was on full display in 2022. Throughout the year, we made sure lawmakers and the administration got the federal employee perspective on our issues. And leading up to the midterm elections, our members nationwide volunteered to get-out-the-vote, helping to ...