NTEU Releases Transition Recommendations

The document offers NTEU's recommendations for administrative and legislative actions impacting a wide array of challenges facing the nation -- from reviving the economy to strengthening security.

NTEU has outlined a set of broad principles to the transition team including creating a more collaborative workplace; providing adequate agency resources, particularly to the front-lines of agency work; ending inefficient contracting; expanding collective bargaining rights; and tying changes in civil service rules to increased potential for achieving agency missions.

These are among the specific changes recommended by NTEU:

    --  Provide Transportation Security Administration employees with collective
        bargaining rights and move them to the same pay system most other
        federal employees are covered under, which would stem the dangerously
        high turnover and low morale in this crucial security agency;
    --  Issue a new executive order re-establishing federal sector
        labor-management partnership, a proven method of harnessing the ideas of
        front-line employees to better advance the missions of their agencies;
    --  Direct all federal agencies to review all of their service contracts,
        cancel those found to be unnecessary and, within two years, bring any
        inefficient, wasteful or inherently governmental contacts back in-house;
    --  End the use by the Internal Revenue Service of private tax collectors, a
        costly and ineffective program that puts taxpayers' personal
        information at unacceptable risk;
    --  Take all necessary actions to ensure that both the Federal Labor
        Relations Authority and the Federal Service Impasses Panel can quickly
        and fairly carry out their missions;
    --  Require that the Office of Personnel Management apply for the
        prescription drug subsidy available to all employers providing health
        care benefits as a way of keeping in check costs of the Federal
        Employees Health Benefits Program.

Media Briefing Today (Nov. 19)

NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley will conduct a media briefing by telephone today at 1:30 pm (ET) to discuss the recommendations. Members of the media interested in participating the briefing or receiving a copy of the transition document should contact Dina Long at (202) 572-5500, ext. 7058.

SOURCE National Treasury Employees Union

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