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 freeze on federal employees and members of Congress through 2013. The bill was brought up under a procedure known as Suspension of the Rules, which prohibits amendments and requires a two-thirds majority to pass. Many members of the House expressed the desire to vote only to extend the pay freeze on their own salaries and not federal...
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2/1/12: On January 26, the Senate voted against bringing up HJRes 98, legislation that would have...
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...
1/19/12: 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 ...
11/4/11: Last week, the Union raised with SEC management concerns over an image of...
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...
8/24/11: Thousands of Federal employees were sent home after yesterday afternoon's 5.8 earthquake shook our nation's capitol --...
8/22/11: On August 11, the Union and the SEC entered into this...
8/22/11: The pre-scheduled Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiating sessions agreed upon last spring by the Union and the SEC came to an end...
8/24/11: During NTEU's biannual...
10/7/11: Jeff Risinger served as the Associate Director of the Office of Human Resources at the SEC for seven years, before leaving the...
6/22/11: In an unexpected shift, SEC management has opened the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiations pursuing an aggressive new...
The civil service in the United States is one of the best in the world, but it cannot survive if...
