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Pay Freeze as Union Recruiting Tool

When the Senate voted not to freeze your salary it may have deprived federal union leaders with what Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says would have been their greatest ever recruiting tool: anger.

Tags: pay and benefits , Mike Causey , pay freeze , federal employee unions , AFGE , NARFE

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Civil Service Reform & Manure

Putting manure on strawberries produces excellent results, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it can be quite a disappointment if you were expecting cream and sugar.

Tags: pay and benefits , Mike Causey , FCIP , AFGE

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Feds are organizing labor-management forums

The National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations miss a deadline to report to President Obama by at least 30 days. They need more time to figure out how to give managers and rank-and-file feds a place where they can sit down and discuss common problems.

Tags: management , National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relat , OPM , John Berry , Jeff Zients , Darryl Perkinson , FMA , Colleen Kelley , President Obama , Max Cacas

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NTEU files motion to end internship program

Employee union claims agencies have abused their privileges and OPM has done nothing to stop them. NTEU says the Federal Career Internship Program flies in the face of merit system hiring principles.

Tags: Pay & Benefits , OPM , IRS , CBP , DHS FDIC , Colleen Kelley , internship program , FCIP

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HReinvented: Employee unions call for tweaks to the system

AFGE and NTEU see areas where OPM could improve the federal human resources processes, but believe a major overhaul is not necessary. AFGE calls for more steps in the GS system and a broader use of career ladders. NTEU wants managers to receive more and better training on the how to best use the current HR processes.

Tags: HReinvented , management , John Berry , OPM , John Gage , Colleen Kelley , AFGE , HR reforms , KSAs

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NTEU files petition to represent TSA

President Collen Kelley explains.

Tags: Pay & Benefits , AFGE , TSA , Collen Kelley

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OMB's Zients touts better hiring, retention of feds

The White House Chief Performance Officer, and Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget, speaks to the National Treasury Employees Union legislative conference about the role federal workers play in improving the performance management of the federal government.

Tags: P&B , OMB , Jeffrey Zients , HUD , hiring process , Max Cacas

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NTEU coping with recent violence against feds

WFED's Max Cacas reports.

Tags: Pay & Benefits , Max Cacas

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NTEU concerned about fed worker safety

One of the largest Federal employee labor unions is in the second day of its three-day legislative conference, held yearly in Washington. The National Treasury Employees Union is pressing for things like collective bargaining rights for Transportation Security Administration screeners while also expressing its concern for the safety of all feds at their workplaces.

Tags: newsstand , employee safety , Colleen Kelley , IRS , Austin , TIGTA , TSA , Barbara Mikulski , Nita Lowey , collective bargaining rights , Jeffrey Zeints , OMB , chief performance officer , Max Cacas

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AFGE fires first salvo in bid to organize TSA screeners

Ever since the founding of the Transportation Security Administration, two federal employee unions have vied for the right to organize and represent TSA screeners at the bargaining table. Now, one of those unions has filed a petition to do just that, even though neither TSA or its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, have yet to officially endorse collective bargaining for the screeners.

Tags: P&B , AFGE , John Gage , Colleen Kelley , TSA , Federal Labor Relations Authority , President Obama , Max Cacas

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