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Telework bill passes House, headed to Obama

The House passes the Telework Enhancement Act.

Tags: telework , House , Barack Obama , Telework Enhancement Act , Congress , Senate , Frank Wolf , John Sarbanes , Gerald Connolly , FEW , Telework Exchange , Jolie Lee , ROWE

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NTEU post-election: what's ahead?

With the conclusion of the congressional elections, NTEU says it is time to put aside the politically-motivated criticism of federal employees and get down to the business of running the country. President Colleen Kelley joins us with details.

Tags: Federal Drive , pay and benefits , management , Colleen Kelley

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Scorecard adds heat to insourcing debate

A coalition of businesses, associations and citizen groups rate members of Congress on how they voted on bills that promote or hurt private sector companies and forces industry to compete with the government. But some experts say the business coalition is taking a too narrow view of what the government does.

Tags: industry , contracting , OFPP , Robert Tobias , Angela Styles , John Palatiello , Colleen Kelley , Crowell and Moring , American University , Business Coalition for Fair Procurement , insourcing , public-private competition , Jason Miller

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Labor-management forums in need of some clarity

Both employee unions and agencies say certain phrases in President Obama's executive order creating these committees need to be better defined. VA deputy secretary Gould will lead an effort to bring some precision to terms such as pre-decisional, to make sure everyone is working from the same sheet of paper. National Council on Federal-Labor Management Relations also details first set of bargaining pilots, called B-1.

Tags: pay and benefits , management , John Berry , Scott Gould , Jeff Neal , OPM , DHS , VA , Colleen Kelley , Bill Dougan , NFFE , National Council on Federal-Labor Management Relat , labor-mangement forums , B-1 pilots , telework , Jason Miller

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TSA, unions meet, hope for swift action

We get insider's views from NTEU's Colleen Kelley and AFGE's John Gage

Tags: Federal Drive , pay and benefits , collective bargaining , TSA , management , Colleen Kelley , AFGE , John Gage , Vyomika Jairam

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Fighting the Federal Career Internship Program (FCIP)

Calling for an end to the FCIP? This week, host Derrick T. Dortch talks with Employees Union (NTEU) President Colleen M. Kelley.
June 18, 2010

Tags: Fed Access , Derrick T. Dortch , best practices , Colleen M. Kelley , FCIP

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Manager buy-in remains the biggest telework challenge

The next challenge for supporters of teleworking in the government has nothing to do with laptops, laws or cybersecurity. Instead, experts say that challenge will be to convince the recalcitrant manager in the office down the hall, who doesn't like the idea.

Tags: management , telework , Danette Campbell , OPM , John Berry , Coalition for Effective Change , Partnership for Public Service , PTO , GSA , Margaret Higgins , Kurt Vondran , Max Cacas , Rachel Stevens , pay and benefits

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NTEU slams federal pay freeze

President Colleen Kelley sends letter to Congress.

Tags: pay and benefits , Colleen Kelley , federal pay

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GOP lawmakers pitch fed workforce reduction bill

Some Republican members of Congress are making an election-year pitch to reduce the Federal worker headcount, and save money. But would it really do that?

Tags: management , pay and benefits , House , Federal Workforce Reduction Act , John Salamone , Federal Management Partners , Jackie Simon , AFGE , Colleen Kelley , OMB , Barack Obama , outsourcing , insourcing , brain drain , retirement wave , Max Cacas

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Are federal employee unions too political?

On Tuesday, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wrote a column regarding the federal pay freeze and union membership. Well, he got a good number of emails from readers and listeners, some of whom said they think unions are too political. On this week's Your Turn, Causey talked with Colleen Kelley of the NTEU and Judy Park of NARFE to get their thoughts.

Tags: pay and benefits , Your Turn , NARFE , Colleen Kelley , Judy Park , Dorothy Ramienski

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