5/16/12: Yesterday, Congressman Barney Frank gave a speech on financial regulation at the SEC at the invitation of NTEU Chapter 293. During his visit, Congressman Frank also accepted an award from the Union.
Frank visited the Boston Regional Office for the lunch event which was videocast to all of the SEC's other regional offices and headquarters in Washington, D.C. He spoke for about an hour on a broad range of topics, including the necessity of strong...
5/11/12: Congress must ensure that parity is reinstated between the transit and parking portions of the commuter benefit in final highway funding...
5/11/12: The House of Representatives’ approval yesterday of the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012 (H.R. 5652) represents yet...
5/11/12: The SEC informed NTEU this week that the annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) will be available for SEC employee...
4/26/12: Congress must act quickly to reinstate parity between parking and mass transit benefits and provide much needed relief to hard-working,...
4/19/12: Multiple Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Resolutions have been introduced in the Senate. Yesterday, the Chairman of the Senate Budget...
4/19/12: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a business meeting yesterday at which they reported out HR 4363, which sets up a...
4/18/12: The SEC's Office of Human Resources today informed Union officials that SEC employees who are given an intra-agency, ...
4/17/12: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley today applauded long-delayed action by the General Services Administration (GSA) to raise the...
4/10/12, Reuters: A longtime U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission trial lawyer who was fired for sending...
In the last week of February and beginning of March, hundreds of NTEU representatives from across the country attended NTEU's 2012...
3/23/12: Earlier this week, NTEU Chapter 293 formally requested from the SEC the ratings data related to SEC management's "evidence...
3/23/12: Yesterday, the Senate passed the House version of the STOCK Act to enhance transparency by elected officials and...
3/22/12: Yesterday, the House Budget Committee approved a budget resolution for fiscal year 2013 offered by Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI)....
3/20/12: Today, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), Chair of the House Budget Committee, unveiled his budget for FY 2013. As it did last year, the...
3/14/12: For almost a year now, NTEU has led an effort to obtain an increase in the mileage...
3/14/12: Earlier today the Senate approved legislation, S.1813, the “Moving Ahead for Progress for...
3/13/12: NTEU today applauded Senate action in turning aside legislative language that would have...
3/2/12: At a spirited rally of hundreds of NTEU members to support federal employees this week, five House members and a senator joined NTEU...
2/17/12: Today Congress passed HR 3630 to extend the payroll tax holiday, provide for an extension of unemployment insurance and fix to doctor...
2/15/12: Legislation to extend the payroll tax holiday, extend unemployment benefits, and prevent...
2/14/12: The Administration’s 2013 Budget includes pay and benefit provisions similar to...
4/25/12: The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) today issued a complaint against the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging failure to...
2/2/12: The House of Representatives last night voted to approve H.R. 3835, authored by Representative Sean Duffy (R-WI), to extend the pay...
2/1/12: On January 26, the Senate voted against bringing up HJRes 98, legislation that would have...
1/31/12: Today, NTEU National President Colleen Kelley submitted a statement to the Senate...
1/31/12: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley agreed with one major conclusion of a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report...
1/30/12: The U.S. House of Representatives will vote this week, most likely on Wednesday, on a bill, H.R. 3835, introduced by...
1/25/12: Today NTEU submitted testimony for a hearing before the Federal Workforce, US Postal...
1/25/12: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley today sharply criticized ongoing efforts in the House...
1/25/12: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley today commended 17 House members for their expression...
1/19/12: Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution (H J Res 98) to disapprove the...
1/17/12: This week, the Union filed a national grievance against the SEC for its breach of a Diversity Initiatives Contract that the...
1/6/12: The White House today announced that its 2013 budget proposal would reflect that the two-year pay freeze for federal employees would end...
1/5/12: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley called on House-Senate conferees to oppose offsetting an...
12/19/11: The Senate on Saturday followed the House in approving an omnibus spending bill to keep the government funded for the rest of the...
12/14/11: Most agencies are currently funded by a Continuing Resolution that will run out at...
12/14/11: Yesterday, by a vote of 234-193, the House of Representatives passed HR 3630, a bill...
12/13/11: Last week, ...
12/13/11: Last Spring, NTEU launched an effort to obtain a mid-year increase in the mileage deduction...
12/13/11: Commissioner Luis Aguilar was sworn in to a second SEC term by Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey last week in a...
12/13/11: Next year, for Christmas 2012, the Union will be bringing back the Red Wagon Parade program for gathering Christmas toys for...
11/17/11, Washington, D.C.: The nation’s largest independent union of federal...
11/16/11, Washington, D.C. — Despite increased workloads, employee satisfaction...
By Ed O'Keefe at the Washington Post. If that federal employee sitting next to you on the...
The Partnership for Public Service on November 16, 2011 released its ...
11/16/11: Over the objections of NTEU, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has directed...
11/1/11: Today NTEU wrote ...
10/24/11: In the wake of damaging revelations regarding a security breach in connection with the SEC...
10/8/11: The training modules for the SEC’s so-called “evidence based” performance management system contain statements that...
10/7/11: The SEC’s Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) recently issued ...
10/7/11: This afternoon, in response to this national grievance...
10/4/11: Today, in a vote of 352 ayes to 66 nays, the House...
9/30/2011: Chapter 293's Executive Board recently voted unanimously to appoint Pat Copeland to serve as the chapter...
9/30/11: This fall, the
9/30/11: With the close of the fiscal year, the Union is preparing to conclude one of the longest running negotiations of workplace rights in...
9/28/11: NTEU received a briefing yesterday on FEHBP and the issues related to OPM’s annual Open...
9/19/11: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley today expressed her strong opposition to the administration’s debt reduction proposal...
9/15/11: Yesterday the chair of the House Appropriations Committee, Representative Harold Rogers (R-KY...
9/15/11: NTEU today joined a broad...
9/15/11: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley applauded action by a key Senate subcommittee...
9/13/11: During the most recent CBA negotiating sessions, SEC management has continued to remain steadfast in its opposition...
9/13/11: This month, NTEU filed with the Federal Labor Relations Authority a second unfair labor practice claim against the SEC...
9/13/11: The Union is pleased to announce that the IRS, in a ruling requested by NTEU Chapter 293, has determined in our favor that the SEC and...
FEDSMILL.com recently posted an article recognizing Chapter 293's website as one of the best federal employee union websites...
9/6/11: Last week, NTEU National President Colleen Kelley sent ...
Federal employees across the northeastern U.S. have been impacted by Hurricane Irene. Your generosity can help ensure that everyone who needs...
8/24/11: Chapter 293 won an arbitration this week on behalf of an SEC employee against...
The grim news that a complaint has been issued by an independent federal agency alleging that the SEC...
5/15/12 by Erik Wassen: For 13 years, Colleen Kelley has served as one of Washington’s leading advocates for federal workers. As president of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU...
5/15/12: There is no place in the highway funding bill currently under discussion by House-Senate conferees for a provision to change federal pensions to fund that measure, NTEU National President Colleen Kelley told conferees in this letter today.
“Further cuts to federal compensation will seriously impair the government’s ability to...
Merit Pay distribution data generated in the "dry run" of the SEC's new performance management system for the rating period ending September 30, 2011, showing what the distributions of merit pay increases would have been broken down by office and division, grade, position, age, gender and race/ethnicity.
5/16/12 by Colleen Kelley on GovExec.com: Have you ever visited a country where the water is unsafe to drink, where people wear masks outside because the air is unsafe to breathe, where infant mortality is high and guards armed with automatic weapons are a common sight on public streets? Do you stay up nights worrying about the security of your bank deposits, or wondering whether your mother will receive her Social Security check...
