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Jun 26, 2009 NFFE President Assails NSPS at Task Force Public Meeting Thursday afternoon, Richard N. Brown, National President of the National Federation of Federal Employees, a union representing 100,000 federal workers throughout government, assailed the controversial National Security Personnel System (NSPS) as ineffective and unsalvageable in the first public... more...
Jun 22, 2009 NFFE Welcomes New Forest Service Chief Last Friday, NFFE National President Richard N. Brown sent a letter to recently-appointed Forest Service Chief Thomas Tidwell, extending a hand of cooperation to address the many pressing issues facing the agency. As the largest representative of U.S. Forest Service employees, NFFE stands to work... more...
Jun 17, 2009 NFFE Praises Armed Services Committee for Adopting Shea-Porter Amendment Concerning NSPS The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), praises the House Armed Services Committee for adopting Rep. Carol Shea-Porter’s amendment to H.R. 2647, the 2010 Defense Authorization Act, containing language that would stop the expansion of the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) and... more...
Jun 17, 2009 Federal Employee Union Praises White House Executive Memo on Domestic Partnerships and Non-Discrimination The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), a national union representing 100,000 federal workers throughout government, praises President Barack Obama’s memorandum extending benefits to federal employees with same sex domestic partners. In a letter to President Obama, NFFE National... more...
Jun 11, 2009 NFFE Calls for Conference on Tobacco Bill Today, Richard N. Brown, National President of the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), sent an urgent letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling for the conference of H.R. 1256, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. The bill, passed by the House in early April,... more...
Jun 5, 2009 NFFE Lauds House Passage of Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) praises the U.S. House of Representatives for the passage of H.R. 626, the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act (FEPPLA). The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), extends four weeks of paid leave to federal employees... more...
Jun 1, 2009 NFFE Gets Clarification on OPM Federal Pay Reform Initiative Last Friday, National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) National President Richard N. Brown contacted Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director John Berry seeking clarification on certain aspects of OPM’s federal pay reform initiative. The call came in response to widespread speculation... more...
May 21, 2009 Federal Employees Union Backs Gillibrand The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), a union representing 100,000 federal government workers nationwide, enthusiastically endorses the candidacy of Kirsten Gillibrand for United States Senator from New York. “Kirsten Gillibrand is without a doubt the strongest candidate to... more...
May 5, 2009 Union Outlines Plan for Eliminating Passport Fraud to Congress The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) Local 1998, the union representing Passport Agency employees nationwide, submitted written testimony to the Senate Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee at a hearing regarding serious vulnerabilities in the passport issuance process. more...
Apr 21, 2009 Agency at Fault for Passport Security Failures, Not Employees In the aftermath of a troubling GAO report issued last month, wherein GAO investigators found authentic U.S. Passports could be obtained fairly easily using fraudulent documents, the State Department has publicly faulted Passport workers for the errors, and have even suspended the adjudication... more...
Apr 16, 2009 OPM Director John Berry Meets with NFFE Leadership Newly-confirmed Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director John Berry met with NFFE National President Richard N. Brown and National Secretary-Treasurer Bill Dougan at NFFE’s Headquarters in Washington, D.C. In the meeting, Brown and Dougan engaged Berry on the membership’s highest priorities,... more...
Mar 19, 2009 Morale Eroded in Federal Lands Workforce; New Administration, Policies Could Change Employees’ Outlook Employee representatives of federal land management agencies delivered testimony today before a House Subcommittee on Capitol Hill concerning how to turn around low employee morale in federal agencies like the U.S. Forest Service, Park Service, and Bureau of Land Management. more...
Mar 3, 2009 NFFE Supports Bill Extending Locality Pay to Federal Workers in Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. Territories The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) endorses the Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Act (S. 507), a bill to ensure pay and retirement equity for federal employees in Alaska, Hawaii, and the U.S. territories, by transitioning them into the federal locality pay system. more...
Feb 26, 2009 In America's National Forests, Stimulus Funds are Saving More than Jobs Just last week, President Barack Obama signed a $787 billion stimulus package that he and Congressional supporters say will stimulate the economy and create millions of jobs for American workers. Now that the bill is signed, many Americans are looking to identify ways that stimulus spending will... more...
Feb 12, 2009 NFFE Supports Bill to Restore Meaningful Bargaining Rights for Dept. of Veterans Affairs Health Care Professionals Introduced in the House this week by Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA), and later in the Senate by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), this bill would amend Section 7422 of Title 38, United States Code, to remove broadly interpreted exceptions concerning the scope of collective bargaining rights for VA medical... more...
Feb 10, 2009 NFFE Supports Bill to Grant Federal Employees Benefit for Unused Sick Leave NFFE endorses the FERS Sick Leave Equity Act, a bill that would provide federal employees enrolled under the Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) compensation for accrued sick leave upon retirement. Under the current system, federal workers enrolled under FERS do not receive compensation... more...
Feb 4, 2009 NFFE Supports Bill to Attract Former Federal Employees Back to the Civil Service The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), a national union representing 100,000 federal government workers, enthusiastically endorses H.R. 828 the “FERS Redeposit Act,” introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday by Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA), along with Frank Wolf... more...
Oct 9, 2008 NFFE Re-elects Richard N. Brown as National President and William Dougan as National Secretary/Treasurer Yesterday afternoon, Richard N. Brown was re-elected as National President of the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE). Brown was elected to his fourth term by an 86% majority of the NFFE delegation. Brown prevailed over NFFE member Greg Guthrie who received 14% of the vote. The... more...
Sep 25, 2008 NFFE Local 1 Settles Six-Figure Back Pay Case for San Francisco VA Nurses Early this week, thirty-nine nurses at the San Francisco VA Medical Center received payments of up to $10,000 for underpayments made to them between 2000 and 2006. This outcome was the result of a settlement reached between the VA and the union representing the nurses, National Federation of... more...
Sep 18, 2008 Federal Employees Union Announces Endorsement of Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), a union representing 100,000 federal government workers nationwide, enthusiastically endorses Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States of America. more...
Jul 31, 2008 With Integrity of U.S. Passport in Jeopardy, Passport Workers Look to State for Answers The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), the federal union representing Passport Agency workers, is demanding the Department of State confirm that U.S. Passport applications will be accepted and executed solely by federal workers sworn under oath. more...
Jul 31, 2008 NFFE Applauds House Passage of Bill Extending Pension Parity to All Federal Employees, Automatic Enrollment in TSP The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), a national union representing 100,000 federal government workers, enthusiastically supports the inclusion of two provisions in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (HR 1108) that are favorable to federal employees. The first... more...
Jun 26, 2008 NFFE Applauds Committee Move to Grant 3.9% Pay Increase for Federal Workers On Wednesday, June 25th, the House Appropriations Committee approved the Fiscal Year 2009 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill. Included in the bill was language that would give civilian federal employees a 3.9 percent average pay raise for FY09. more...
May 29, 2008 Citing Safety Concerns, Passport Workers Endorse Legislation to Manufacture Passports Domestically The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), the federal union representing Passport Agency workers, is endorsing H.R. 5752, a bill requiring that United States passports be manufactured in the United States. more...
May 1, 2008 Union Hopes for Better Labor Relations Under New GSA Administrator After the resignation of GSA Administrator Lurita Doan, the NFFE GSA Council is planning to appeal to members of Congress and the White House to encourage the selection of a new GSA Administrator that will embrace the idea of collaborative and effective labor relations at the agency. more...
Feb 21, 2008 GAO Audit Cites Bogus Savings Claims in Forest Service Outsourcing Program Bush Administration claims that â€˜competitive sourcingâ€™ in the U.S. Forest Service saved taxpayers millions of dollars are based on shoddy and misleading accounting practices, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released today. more...
Jan 29, 2008 Bush Signs Defense Authorization, NSPS Reform Into Law Yesterday, President George W. Bush signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (H.R. 4986) into law. Included in the bill was language to fundamentally alter the National Security Personnel System (NSPS), a controversial personnel reform at the Department of Defense (DoD). more...
Dec 14, 2007 Defense Authorization Passes Senate, NSPS Reform Being Sent to White House for Bushâ€™s Signature Today, the Senate passed the Fiscal Year 2008 Defense Authorization Conference Report (HR 1585) which included language to fundamentally alter the National Security Personnel System (NSPS), a controversial personnel reform at the Department of Defense (DoD). This vote follows the House vote to... more...
Dec 12, 2007 House Adopts Defense Authorization Conference Report by Veto-proof Majority Today, the House of Representatives adopted the Fiscal Year 2008 Defense Authorization Conference Report (HR 1585) which included language to fundamentally alter the National Security Personnel System (NSPS), a controversial personnel reform at the Department of Defense (DoD). more...
Dec 10, 2007 Conferees Restore Defense Workers' Rights Under New Personnel Plan On Friday, December 7th, House and Senate conferees revealed details of the Fiscal Year 2008 Defense Authorization Conference Report (HR 1585) which included language to fundamentally alter the National Security Personnel System (NSPS), a controversial personnel reform at the Department of... more...
Oct 2, 2007 Senate Adopts Significant A-76 Reform Washington, DC â€“ Late yesterday, the United States Senate adopted an amendment to the fiscal year 2008 Defense Authorization bill that would make several revisions to the A-76 public-private competition process. Together, these changes would do much to level the playing field for federal... more...
Oct 2, 2007 Defense Authorization Passes Senate: NSPS Reform Clears Major Hurdle Yesterday, the United States Senate passed the fiscal year 2008 Defense Authorization bill (HR 1585). Included in the bill was language to fundamentally reform the Pentagonâ€™s contentious personnel plan, the National Security Personnel System (NSPS). The bill was passed by a 92-3 vote. more...
Sep 12, 2007 DoD to Delay Implementation of NSPS Yesterday, the Department of Defense (DoD) put out a release stating that the Department â€œhas no plans to implement the adverse actions, appeals and labor relations portions of the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) at this time.â€ more...
Aug 6, 2007 House Strips Funding for NSPS Late Saturday night, before adjourning for summer recess, the U.S. House of Representatives accepted the Inslee/Jones/Van Hollen amendment to the fiscal year 2008 Defense Appropriations bill. The language will block the Department of Defense (DoD) from implementing the parts of the National... more...
Jul 19, 2007 GAO Report Supports Union Contention that Pentagon Understated Cost of NSPS A new report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) supports Defense unionsâ€™ contention that the Department of Defense (DoD) has been underestimating the cost of implementing the National Security Personnel System (NSPS). According to the report, GAO found that DoDâ€™s November... more...
Jul 3, 2007 Defense Unions Seek Rehearing of NSPS Case Yesterday, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) and other unions representing Department of Defense (DoD) workers filed a Petition for Rehearing En Banc in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in regard to AFGE, et al., v. Gates. more...
Jun 13, 2007 PASSPORT UNION: PROCESSING DELAYS WILL ONLY GET WORSE UNLESS LAND/SEA BORDER RULE DELAYED The union representing Passport Agency workers is predicting greater difficulty processing Passport applications throughout 2007 and into 2008. National Federation of Federal Employees, Local 1998 (a nationwide local representing all bargaining unit Passport workers) blames unnecessary staffing... more...
Jun 8, 2007 NFFE Praises One-Year Defund of Forest Service A-76 Program A provision in the fiscal year 2008 Interior appropriations bill, reported out of the House Appropriations Committee yesterday, would cut funding for the Forest Service competitive sourcing program in FY08. more...
Jun 1, 2007 War Funding Bill Spares Coast Guard Civil Engineers from Downsizing A provision in the fiscal year 2007 supplemental appropriations bill (HR 2206), signed into law by President Bush last Friday, shut down a major downsizing and reorganization plan for the Civil Engineering Program of the Coast Guard. more...
May 25, 2007 NFFE Applauds Senate Armed Services Committee for Restoration of Collective Bargaining Under NSPS Washington, DC â€“ Today, the Senate Armed Services Committee released the contents of the Defense Authorization Bill for fiscal year 2008. Included in the bill was a provision to do the following: â€œTo repeal the existing authority of the Department of Defense to establish a new labor... more...
May 10, 2007 NFFE Praises A-76 Revisions Passed in House Armed Services Committee Washington, DC â€“ Today, the House Armed Services Committee passed several revisions to the A-76 public-private competition process. Together, these changes would do much to level the playing field for federal workers when competing against private contractors for the same government work. more...
May 9, 2007 NFFE Applauds House Panel's NSPS Reform Language Yesterday, the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee approved language to amend the law establishing the National Security Personnel System (NSPS), a controversial personnel reform at the Department of Defense (DoD). more...
Oct 28, 2006 NFFE Mourns Loss of Fallen Members in California Wildfire Richard N. Brown, President of the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), today issued the following statement in response to news that three Forest Service workers and members of NFFE Local 1558 died yesterday in wildfire in California. A fourth Forest Service worker, Engine Captain... more...
Sep 26, 2006 Defund of NSPS Retained in Defense Appropriations Conference Report Washington , DC â€“ The recently released 2007 Defense Appropriations Bill Conference Report has retained a provision to defund sections of the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) deemed illegal by Judge Emmett G. Sullivan in the United States District Court for the... more...
Jun 27, 2006 Federal Unions Win DHS Personnel System Decision in Federal Appeals Court Today, the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued its long-awaited ruling on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel reform. The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), along with sister unions, prevailed in a resounding victory. more...
Jun 21, 2006 NFFE Supports House Action to Defund NSPS Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives accepted an amendment to the FY07 Defense Appropriations Bill (HR 5631) to defund sections of the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) recently deemed illegal by Judge Emmett G. Sullivan in the United States District Court for the District of... more...
May 2, 2006 Forest Service Competitive Sourcing Contract Terminated: Shoddy Work Put Employees and Public in Unsafe Situations On May 1, 2006, the Forest Service terminated for default its Region 5 fleet maintenance contract with Serco Management Services, Inc. This will affect how the agency's California fleet, including specialized fire-fighting equipment, will be serviced. more...
Mar 1, 2006 Defense Workers in Disbelief as Deputy Secretary Calls DoD "Vestige of Communism" Defense workers are shocked by a comment made yesterday by Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England at a conference hosted by the Office of Personnel Management in which he referred to the Department of Defense (DoD) as a "vestige of communism" as reported by Government Executive... more...
Feb 27, 2006 Unions Win NSPS Lawsuit; Decision Upholds Collective Bargaining at DoD Today, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia released his ruling on the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) lawsuit filed by 10 labor unions on November 7, 2005. The judge ruled in favor of the unions on several key components of the suit,... more...
Jan 30, 2006 Forest Service Workers Denounce Agency Effort to Open 15,000 Jobs Up to Privatization Studies Forest Service employees are responding this week to news that the agency plans to open 15,000 additional full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) up to A-76 privatization studies by FY09, according to new revisions in the agency's Competitive Sourcing Green Plan. more...
Jan 24, 2006 Federal Union Coalition Argues Against DoD Personnel System (NSPS) Today, the United DoD Workers Coalition (UDWC), a coalition of 36 labor unions representing 750,000 Department of Defense (DoD) workers, argued against the Pentagon's National Security Personnel System (NSPS) before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. more...
Nov 17, 2005 Defense Unions Blast NSPS in Senate Today, at a hearing in the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, unions representing workers at the Department of Defense (DoD) voiced serious concerns with the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) final regulations issued days ago. more...
Nov 7, 2005 Federal Union Coalition Files Lawsuit over NSPS Regs Today, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), along with nine other unions representing federal workers filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia in response to the recently-issues regulations for the Pentagon's National Security Personnel System (NSPS). more...
May 16, 2005 Unions Withdraw from NSPS Meet and Confer Today, several national unions, which collectively represent over 100,000 Department of Defense (DoD) employees, withdrew from participation in the department's meet and confer process, a protest of the Pentagon's underhanded collaboration with federal employee unions. more...
Mar 16, 2005 Federal Employee Union (NFFE) Disapproves of Reorganization at GSA National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) National President/DBR Richard N. Brown testified before the House Government Reform Committee today regarding the proposed merger of the Federal Technology Service (FTS) and the Federal Supply Service (FSS) within the General Services... more...
Mar 15, 2005 President Brown to Testify Before Congress: Under-Handed Overhaul of GSA Should Not Be Tolerated National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) National President/DBR Richard N. Brown will testify before the House Government Reform Committee tomorrow morning regarding the proposed merger of the Federal Technology Service (FTS) and the Federal Supply Service (FSS) within the General Services... more...
Feb 23, 2005 Federal Employee Unions Sue Over Defense Personnel Reform: Declare "Meaningful Discussions" Never Took Place Today, a coalition of nine labor unions, collectively representing over 300,000 employees at the United States Department of Defense (DoD), filed suit against the Department and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for failing to "afford employee representatives and management the opportunity... more...
Feb 10, 2005 Federal Employee Unions Sue Over Defense Personnel Reform: Declare "Meaningful Discussions" Never Took Place Today, a coalition of nine labor unions, collectively representing over 300,000 employees at the United States Department of Defense (DoD), filed suit against the Department and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for failing to "afford employee representatives and management the opportunity... more...
Oct 19, 2004 Brown Re-elected as NFFE National President Last week, Richard N. Brown was re-elected as National President of the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE). Brown was elected to his third term by a sound majority of the delegate vote over challenger Sandra Bond. The election took place at NFFEÂ¢Â®¯s national convention that... more...
Sep 13, 2004 Passport Employees Prevail in Work Schedule Negotiability Appeal In a recent ruling from the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), the Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Passport Services was ordered to negotiate with employees over compressed work schedules. The ruling ends a 16-month struggle between National Federation of Federal... more...
Aug 25, 2004 Unions Take a Walk: NSPS Collaboration Over Today, unions representing federal employees at the Department of Defense (DoD) walked out on Navy Secretary Gordon England and other DoD staff effectively ending the labor-management collaboration for the formation of the National Security Personnel System (NSPS). more...
Mar 10, 2004 DHS Alters HR System at Employees' Expense Yesterday, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) briefed employee representatives on a new human resources management system that, when enacted, will have a severe negative effect on the employees within DHS. more...
Feb 27, 2004 DoD Labor Management Collaboration a Sham For the second consecutive day, Department of Defense (DoD) officials have been wasting the time of employee representatives who have come to participate in a collaboration regarding the creation of a new labor management relations system at DoD. more...
Feb 9, 2004 President Brown Sounds Off on DoD Labor Relations Plan Today, at a Capitol Hill press conference featuring a collaboration of federal employee unions, Richard N. Brown, President of the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE, FD 1, IAMAW) gave an impassioned speech regarding the restructuring of the labor relations system at the Department of... more...
Jan 12, 2004 Passport Employees Plead for More Time to Review Passport Applications Over the past five years, employees at the Department of State's Passport Services have pleaded for more time to review passport applications, a process called adjudication. Despite the fact that fraudulent passports have been issued to serious criminals and the concern that potential terrorists... more...
Jan 7, 2004 Union Raises Safety Concerns About Fleet Maintenance Work Being Awarded to a Contractor On January 7, 2004 the Forest Service in Region 5 (California)announced that the agency has decided to award fleet maintenance work studied under A-76 to a contractor, Serco Group PLC. The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), which holds exclusive representation for the 59... more...
Dec 22, 2003 NFFE Confident as DCMA Election Nears With the election for union representation at the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) just weeks away, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), an affiliate of the Machinists Union (IAM), is confidant in their union's chances of victory. more...
Aug 10, 2003 National Federation of Federal Employees Endorses Sen. John F. Kerry for President The nation's oldest union exclusively representing civil service federal employees, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), announced today its endorsement for the candidacy of Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts for President of the United States. more...
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