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Washington, D.C.-Higher pay in the form of "special salary rates" for three classifications of federal information technology (IT) workers in grades 5 through 12 is "a good short-term tool" to help the government attract and retain the computer professionals it needs now and over the next few years, the head of the nation's largest independent union of federal ...
Washington, D.C.-The president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today called for "a moratorium on any further contracting out" of federal government services until there is "a full accounting" of the size, nature and cost of the contractors who make up what has been decreed "the federal government's shadow workforce." NTEU President Colleen ...
Washington, D.C.-President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today welcomed a White House statement reaffirming the importance of labor-management partnerships in the federal sector and directing agencies to move toward full implementation of the 1993 Executive Order establishing federal workplace partnership. "Every single ...
Washington, D.C.-The head of the nation's largest independent union of federal workers today welcomed approval of a 3.7 percent federal pay increase for 2001, but said that it "falls short of what is needed" to make the government "truly competitive" with the private sector in hiring talented employees. "We must realize that in the long run," said President ...
Washington, D.C.-President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today expressed her strong opposition to discussions in Congress that could result in delayed paychecks for federal workers late next year. She said such proposals circulating now on Capitol Hill are "nothing more than a penalty on federal workers" so that Congress ...
Washington, D.C.--The head of the union representing employees of the Internal Revenue Service today added his support to a call for sufficient resources for the agency to pursue its most far-reaching restructuring in nearly half-a-century. President Robert M. Tobias of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) said he supports the views of IRS ...
Washington, D.C.-The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today announced its endorsement of the presidential candidacy of Vice President A1 Gore. In announcing the Gore endorsement, NTEU National President Colleen M. Kelley said, "Vice President Gore has been a leader on issues important to federal workers and their families. He has earned our ...
Washington, D.C.-There is no stronger evidence of the positive potential for federal sector labor-management partnership than the role employees are playing in the most ambitious modernization and restructuring ever of the massive Internal Revenue Service, the leader of the union representing IRS employees said today. President Colleen M. Kelley of the ...
Washington, D.C.-The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) today moved aggressively by filing a federal court class action suit that challenges Internal Revenue Service (IRS) overtime practices affecting IRS regional and district counsel lawyers nationwide. The union, which represents 1,200 attorneys and support workers in IRS regional and district ...
Washington, D.C.-The head of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) has called "unnecessary and baseless" proposals that may subject thousands of NTEU-represented employees at the Department of Energy (DOE) to what she called "unwarranted" lie detector tests. NTEU represents more than 3,800 DOE employees. Meeting this week with DOE Secretary Bill ...
Washington, D.C.-The head of the nation's largest independent union of federal employees today called on Congress to promptly complete work on the remaining fiscal 2000 budget issues, thus heading off "even the threat of disruptions" that come from a potential shutdown of the government. President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union ...
Washington, D.C.-The head of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) said today that, thanks to NTEU's efforts to "push the Justice Department to focus on the issue," some progress "finally is being made" in discussions over the mechanism for paying millions of dollars in back pay due some 188,000 current and former "special rate" federal ...
Washington, D.C.-The head of the nation's largest independent union of federal employees today called on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to "take swift and decisive action" to contain escalating health care premiums for federal employees, retirees and their families. President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) said a ...
Washington, D.C.-The right to retire at age 50 after 20 years of service is a benefit the U.S. Congress has given to FBI agents, firefighters, nuclear materials handlers, and air traffic controllers. It is a benefit, according to the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), that should be extended to U.S. Customs Service inspectors, canine enforcement ...
Washington, D.C.- An agreement reached by House and Senate negotiators that would give federal employees a 4.8 percent pay raise in January 2000, is being hailed as a victory by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), which represents some 155,000 federal employees in 21 agencies and departments. "This is the biggest pay increase federal employees ...
Washington, D.C.-The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) received an award today from the Society of Federal Labor Relations Professionals in recognition of its interest-based negotiations (IBN) process for dispute resolution with the U.S. Customs Service. IBN is an alternative to traditional labor-management negotiations, which are often adversarial, ...
Washington, D.C.-- More than 300 legislative activists from the nation's largest independent federal union will hear Vice President A1 Gore address issues of concern to them this morning on their second day of their annual legislative conference. The Vice President is scheduled to address National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) legislative conference ...
Washington, D.C. - Employees of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) voted yesterday to name the nation's largest independent federal employees union their exclusive representative in the workplace. By a vote of 132 to 9 the employees of the agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) became the newest ...
Washington, D.C.--The head of the nation's largest independent union of federal employees today applauded the Clinton Administration's proposed long-term health care initiative, calling it "the right step for people who truly have earned it." President Robert M. Tobias of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) said he hopes that Congress will "place ...
Washington, D.C.--The more than 320 Washington-based employees of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a unit of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), have voted overwhelmingly to be represented by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). The vote was 178-to-36 in favor of representation. NTEU is the largest independent ...