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Chairwoman Torres Small, Ranking Member Crenshaw, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to speak today.  As President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), I have the honor of leading a union that represents over 27,000 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers, Agriculture Specialists and trade enforcement ...

Washington D.C. – Customs and Border Protection would be able to hire 1,200 new CBP Officers, hundreds of Agriculture Specialists and other much-needed port personnel under legislation scheduled for a vote Wednesday by a House appropriations subcommittee. The funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security includes $151 million specifically to alleviate ...

Washington D.C. – A new coalition of business and labor groups is urging Congress to initiate a hiring surge at Customs and Border Protection and alleviate the economic and security crisis caused by understaffed ports.   The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents about 27,000 CBP personnel at the ports, is joined by leading voices from shipping, ...

Washington D.C. – The Department of Health and Human Services is preparing to impose an unfair, one-sided edict on its frontline employees that will disrupt the workplace and further degrade labor-management relations in the federal government.  The agency informed the National Treasury Employees Union of its intent to put the new terms in place by May 2, ...

Washington D.C. – Economic activity and security operations at the nation’s ports of entry would be enhanced under bipartisan legislation introduced today to hire hundreds more Customs and Border Protection Officers, said Tony Reardon, National President of the National Treasury Employees Union. The Securing America’s Ports of Entry Act calls for 600 new CBP ...

Chairman Quigley, Ranking Member Graves and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for allowing NTEU to share its thoughts on the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Budget Request and funding for the agencies and programs funded by this Subcommittee. As National President of NTEU, I represent nearly 150,000 federal employees in 33 agencies and I appreciate the ...

Washington D.C. – The president’s proposed fiscal year 2020 budget is a brutal combination of cuts to federal employee compensation and agency operating budgets that, if approved, would be a devastating step backward for the civil service and the taxpayers who depend on them. “For anyone still looking for proof that this administration is hostile to its ...

Washington D.C. – Federal employees should receive all of their back pay immediately upon the reopening of the federal government, National Treasury Employees Union President Tony Reardon said Friday. “Get the checks out, now. Federal employees haven’t been paid in more than a month and mortgage and rent are due next week,” Reardon said. “They shouldn’t have ...

Washington D.C. – A delegation of National Treasury Employees Union members today delivered to Senate leadership a petition signed by 17,820 federal employees calling for an end to the shutdown so they can get back to serving the American people and have their income restored. “Our goal today was to personally carry this message to Senate Majority Leader ...

Washington D.C. – The newly signed law guaranteeing furloughed federal workers receive back pay is a welcome development but only when the government reopens will federal workers begin to recover financially, National Treasury Employees Union President Tony Reardon said. “Making sure all federal employees receive back pay was a top priority for NTEU and we are ...