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 as scheduled. At the same time, the administration proposed only a 0.5 percent pay raise for federal workers.
NTEU National President Colleen Kelley said, “The good news is that the pay freeze is ending, but I am disappointed at the size of the proposed 2013 increase.”
With the pay freeze extending through fiscal...
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...
1/30/12: 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...
1/5/12: 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...
12/16/11: A final 2012 funding bill has been agreed to by a House and Senate Conference Committee and the full House and Senate are...
12/15/11: In the omnibus spending bill proposed by the House of Representatives yesterday, the SEC would receive a budget of $1.3 billion for FY...
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 Spring, NTEU launched an effort to obtain a mid-year increase in the mileage deduction...
12/1/11: Yesterday, Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) introduced legislation to offset the cost of extending...
11/16/11: Over the objections of NTEU, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has directed...
12/7/11: Commencing on January 1, 2012, the maximum monthly...
11/1/11: Today NTEU wrote ...
10/4/11: Today, in a vote of 352 ayes to 66 nays, the House...
9/29/11: Today, the House of Representatives unanimously passed H.R 2017, a short term CR to fund the...
9/29/11: In keeping with our efforts to fight against the unwarranted reductions of federal employees...
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...
9/6/11: Last week, NTEU National President Colleen Kelley sent ...
8/2/11: Today, in a vote of 74-26, the Senate passed the debt ceiling package that allows the President to raise the debt ceiling through...
8/2/11: Last night the House passed legislation, 269-161, implementing the bipartisan agreement reached last night by the administration...
7/5/11: This weekend, NTEU and other members of the Federal-Postal Coalition sent ...
6/30/11: Under a proposal being discussed as part of the debt ceiling negotiations, federal employees could see a 5 to 6 percent reduction in...
6/25/11: Last fall, the Union alerted federal employees about a proposal by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to create a...
"...The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provided one case study Wednesday. After the financial industry meltdown and Bernie Madoff...
6/20/11: This letter sent on June 16th to the Vice President...
6/22/11: A funding measure marked up by an important House subcommittee late last week fails
6/8/11: Another anti-federal employee bill (H.R. 2114)...
6/5/11: The failure to consider that federal agencies will have to shift the work of the public to unaccountable private contractors if their...
5/13/11: In a letter to every member of the Senate Budget Committee, NTEU National President Colleen Kelley called on that key body to...
5/4/11: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley today called on a key Senate Appropriations subcommittee to provide the agency with at...
5/3/11: Unless Congress acts in the very near future, the federal government will soon come up against a statutory limitation on its...
4/20/11: NTEU has launched an effort to obtain a mid-year increase in the mileage deduction for...
4/14/11: Federal employees knocked out of the workforce because of a job-related injury should not be...
4/14/11: Yesterday the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved by voice vote H.R. 828...
The civil service in the United States is one of the best in the world, but it cannot survive if...
4/12/11: Just days after federal employees dodged furloughs due to the inability of Congress to pass...
4/8/11: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley today said NTEU is “strongly in support of” bipartisan legislation...
4/8/11: “More than 800,000 federal employees are facing an impending and open-ended furlough with no assurance they would be paid for the...
4/7/11: In a letter to members of both the House and Senate, NTEU National President Colleen Kelley today called on lawmakers in Congress to...
4/6/11: The fiscal 2012 budget proposal advanced yesterday by the chairman of the House Budget Committee, Rep. Paul Ryan (Wisc.), is a...
4/6/11: We at Chapter 293 know that everyone is worried about the very real possibility of a government shutdown on Friday. The...
3/24/11: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley yesterday took sharp issue with a legislative effort to eliminate the defined benefit...
3/18/11: As a key House subcommittee begins its examination of the proposed fiscal 2012 budget for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC...
3/21/11: On Friday, President Obama signed the short term Continuing Resolution (CR) that will keep the federal government...
3/10/11: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley today offered strong support for legislation to help address rising prescription drug...
3/4/11: On Thursday the President signed a short term spending bill that will keep the government running for two more weeks...
From TheHill.com: A top Senate Democrat will reportedly demand sufficient budgets for federal financial regulators as part of any federal budget...
2/22/11: Early Saturday morning the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the Continuing Resolution (CR) for the remainder of fiscal year (FY...
2/23/11: If the House and Senate fail to reach a deal on the current continuing resolution by its expiration date of March 4,...
2/16/11: NTEU has sent this letter to the...
2/16/11: NTEU has sent this letter to the entire House of...
2/15/11: Yesterday the President submitted his Fiscal Year 2012 budget proposal to Congress. This budget includes the...
2/15/11: On February 11, the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Harold Rogers (KY), introduced legislation that would slash...
1/27/11: On Tuesday, President Obama’s ...
1/20/11: Next week the House of Representatives is expected to consider a resolution that seeks to reduce nonsecurity,...
1/14/11: On Monday, January 10, NTEU legislative leaders from Union chapters across the country, including Chapter 293 Legislative...
1/14/11: On January 12, Rep. Mike Coffman (CO) introduced H.R. 270, a bill in the House of Representatives calling for two weeks of...
1/14/11: The nation’s largest independent federal union joined a coalition of 15 organizations in a letter to President Obama calling on...
1/14/2011: A bill proposed in the House this week would implement drastic cuts across the federal government with little concern for resulting...
12/23/10: Upon the request of Chapter 293, SEC management has now communicated to Union leadership that the mass transit benefit for SEC...
12/20/10: Last week, the President signed into law the “Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010....
12/15/10: Today the Senate passed H.R. 4853, its version of the major tax agreement under consideration in Congress by 81 yeas to 19...
12/6/10: The new Congress may explore the enactment of unpaid federal employee furloughs next year. In fact, Rep. Mike Coffman (R. Colo.)...
12/6/10: As the Union has previously reported, the SEC and most other federal agencies have been operating under a...
12/3/2010: This week, the House and Senate approved a short-term extension of the FY11 Continuing Resolution (CR) that will keep the federal...
12/3/2010: As you know, on Monday the President proposed a federal employee pay freeze for 2011 and 2012. In keeping with that...
12/3/10: Today the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform failed to achieve the 14 vote threshold necessary...
11/29/10: At noon today, the President announced plans to freeze annual pay increases for civilian federal employees for 2011 and 2012. NTEU...
6/15/10: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on June 14, 2010, issued final regulations to modify definitions related to "family...
6/15/10: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley today took sharp issue with a proposed amendment to Senate tax legislation that would...
6/10/10: On June 9, Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) attempted to offer his bill (S. 3341) as an amendment to the Senate’s “tax extenders...
6/2/10: At the end of last week, the Senate defeated an amendment by Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John McCain (R-AZ) to freeze...
5/12/10: NTEU said today it strongly supports a Senate bill, introduced by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), to provide the Office of Personnel...
5/12/10: In a bipartisan action, a key House committee today approved a resolution commending federal employees for their contributions to the...
5/12/10: Late last week, HR 1722, the Telework Improvements Act, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Representatives John Sarbanes (D-MD), Frank Wolf...
5/5/10: It is time for the federal government to make family leave a real benefit for federal employees, and not a mirage they cannot afford to...
5/5/10: Legislation introduced yesterday by Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) providing the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) with authority to...
Early last month, hundreds of NTEU members from around the country, representing more than two dozen federal agencies, gathered for the Union...
4/17/10: On April 15, in a joint press conference call with four former SEC Chairmen and Senator Chuck Schumer (D. NY), SEC Chairman...
Click on the thumbnails on this page to see larger versions of photographs of Chapter 293 representatives from the SEC at ...
4/16/10: NTEU has submitted comments to the Equal...
4/15/10: This week, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved two bipartisan measures increasing telework...
4/2/10: NTEU applauded a victory for federal workers it has been pursuing for seven years—a return to the definition of ‘inherently...
3/30/10: In signing H.R. 4872 into law, the FEHBP provisions that NTEU advocated, are now final. Importantly, the integrity of FEHBP has...
3/30/10: If you left government service as a FERS participant and received a refund of your money, and are now back in government, a law passed...
3/3/10: A congressional resolution condemning the recent suicide attack on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees in Austin, Texas, and...
2/23/2010: In an interview with Fox News, Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) commented on the plane that was deliberately flown into IRS offices...
2/23/10: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley testified before a key House subcommittee today in favor of legislation that would take...
2/23/10: Yesterday, President Obama announced his health care reform proposals that include improvements over the Senate-passed excise tax...
2/23/10: NTEU applauds the proposal in the White House fiscal 2011 budget blueprint for a return to parity in pay raises for the...
2/23/10: Last week, NTEU submitted these comments in...
2/3/10: During an appearance on “This Week” on ABC, Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-MA...
2/1/10: In keeping his commitment to NTEU and congressional leaders, President Obama requested pay parity in his budget recommendation for 2011...
12/30/09: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has issued proposed regulations that would require agencies to conduct periodic...
12/17/09: The General Services Administration (GSA) has informed NTEU that they are proposing a decrease in the privately-owned vehicles...
12/17/09: On December 16, 2009, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs marked up S 1102, the Domestic Partner...
12/9/09: Last night, on December 8, the House Appropriations Committee announced agreement among conferees on the major spending package for...
12/9/09: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley today welcomed a White House executive order setting the stage for the meaningful...
12/9/09: Chapter 293 is pleased to inform you that House and Senate conferees have produced a FY 2010 omnibus appropriations measure...
12/9/09: NTEU’s work with members of Congress successfully resulted in continuation of the long tradition of allocating a portion of...
12/8/09: In the last few days proposals have surfaced in the Senate debate on health care reform that would make OPM the administrator of...
12/2/09: On November 30, President Obama exercised his right to submit an alternative plan to Congress on locality pay as presidents of both...
11/28/09: The federal government could save an estimated $50 million in recruitment and retention costs by putting in place a paid parental leave...
11/12/09: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has proposed to change its regulations in two different contexts to explicitly acknowledge...
11/11/09: Over the weekend, in a vote of 220–215, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3962, the comprehensive health insurance reform...
11/2/09: Last week, President Obama signed the Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 Bill (S....
10/16/09: NTEU, working with Representatives Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Kathy Dahlkemper (D-PA), received good news this week when the...
10/15/09: In testimony yesterday before...
10/15/09: Aside from their basic fairness and the importance of leading by example, the federal government needs to provide domestic partner...
10/8/09: The Defense Authorization conference report released yesterday retains several important NTEU-sought provisions that will benefit federal...
10/6/09: In a report issued last week, the agency charged with guarding the federal workforce merit...
9/29/09: The nation’s largest independent union of federal employees today called for legislation that would permit the Federal...
9/29/09: The average 8.8 percent increase in 2010 health care premiums for federal employees and retirees covered under the Federal Employees...
9/15/09: NTEU supports congressional efforts to increase consumer protections and transparency for those who purchase long-term care...
9/1/09: President Obama yesterday sent another letter to Congress requesting a 2% pay raise for federal employees in January. In July,...
7/30/09: This week, NTEU National President Colleen Kelley sent letters to Chairmen Carl Levin (D-MI) and Ike Skelton (D-MO), of the Senate and...
7/30/09: Today, the House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce marked up and sent to full committee HR 2517, the Domestic Partner Benefits and...
7/24/09: Yesterday, on July 23, 2009, the Senate passed its version of the Department of Defense Authorization Bill (S. 1390) for Fiscal Year 2010...
7/21/09: In response to President Obama’s March instructions to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct a government-wide...
7/9/09: The Senate Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee approved yesterday a 2.9 percent pay raise for...
6/26/09: NTEU has expressed concern about the rising costs in FEHBP, especially the high costs of prescription drugs which could contribute to...
6/26/09: The new Public Service Loan Forgiveness program is underway at the Department of Education. As previously reported, NTEU backed this...
6/26/09: NTEU National President Colleen Kelley today welcomed the introduction of legislation that would increase the maximum age...
6/26/09: Two weeks ago NTEU reported on the disappointing developments in the Senate when it dropped the federal employees/retirees’...
Get the facts how NTEU gets you better pay raises! Every year, NTEU's highly effective Legislative Department works...
2/20/09: Congressman Barney Frank appeared at the SEC at the invitation of NTEU Chapter 293 to speak to SEC employees on Thursday, February 19....
In March 2011, hundreds of NTEU representatives from across the country attended NTEU's annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. Click on the thumbnails below to see some pictures from this event...
Article from the NTEU Bulletin: When NTEU Chapter 293 President Greg Gilman visits the district office of Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), he knows to expect a substantive discussion about key workplace issues and NTEU...
One of the most important NTEU services that your union dues make possible is the union's tireless Congressional lobbying work on your behalf – and in particular its legislative work to obtain better pay and benefits. This critical work is accomplished in conjunction with Chapter 293’s Legislative Committee, which has been headed from the beginning by Chairman Bill Friar at Headquarters. As but one example of this work, please consider how those...
4/12/11: The 2011 budget legislation unveiled by lawmakers this morning has $38 billion in overall cuts, but the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will receive increases over their 2010 budgets of $74 million and $34 million, respectively. This will place the SEC's budget at $1.185 billion for FY 2011.
These budgetary increases were necessary due to the fact that the SEC and the CFTC have...
Chapter 293 members can click here to sign in and review transcripts of testimony by NTEU National President Colleen Kelley before numerous committeees of Congress on a host of issues of interest to SEC employees. Testimony issues include paid parental leave, pay for performance, federal employee pay raises, and more.
