6/27/07: As previously reported at www.secunion.org, a number of NTEU’s hard-fought legislative priorities were included in the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal 2008. Today the House of Representatives is expected to begin consideration. The measure contains the 3.5 percent federal employee pay raise, the reduction in the IRS’s private tax collection program to $1 million, and the A-76 contracting reform provisions.

It is important that the provisions that NTEU has worked hard for remain intact during House consideration. In an effort to educate Members of the House, NTEU President Colleen Kelley sent a letter to every Representative, urging them to retain the provisions in the bill on the pay raise, as well as the $1 million limit for IRS’s private tax collection program and the A-76 contracting out reform. For more information on this issue and to find out how you can help, you can visit Capwiz on NTEU's website.