August 28, 2009
Yesterday, NFFE National President William R. Dougan sat on a panel with several other federal employee representatives to discuss federal pay reform at the Blacks in Government (BIG) conference in Baltimore, Maryland. At the conference, President Dougan made it clear that NFFE would never support a pay for performance system resembling NSPS, and reiterated his…
August 24, 2009
Thursday, the IAM announced the winners of its annual Newsletter and Website Contest, a competition that honors excellence and innovation in both print and digital media. Out of a field of hundreds of Locals and Districts, one name appeared time and time again: NFFE-IAM. In fact, NFFE Local 1998 and the National Office won a…
August 12, 2009
Friday, the Senate confirmed by unanimous consent the appointments of Julia Akins-Clark as General Counsel and Ernest DuBester as Member to the Federal Labor Relations Authority. Both appointees have extensive backgrounds in federal labor relations, each having served federal employees in some capacity for nearly two decades. Prior to her appointment as FLRA General Counsel,…
July 27, 2009
Last week, an effort to advance several key federal workforce initiatives in Congress suffered a major setback after the amendment was withdrawn from consideration in the Senate’s version of the Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Authorization bill. The amendment, introduced by Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) was unexpectedly filibustered by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), and was ultimately…
July 14, 2009
In accordance with the Bylaws of the National Federation of Federal Employees, National-Secretary Treasurer William R. Dougan has succeeded the late Richard N. Brown as NFFE National President. Having resumed business on July 14, 2009, following the funeral proceedings, William R. Dougan released the following statement: Brothers and Sisters: It is with great sorrow and…
July 10, 2009
This week, key committees in both houses of Congress approved figures for this year’s federal pay adjustment, however they arrived at very different results. Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee endorsed a 2.9 percent civilian federal employee pay adjustment for fiscal year 2010. This compares to a 2 percent pay adjustment passed earlier in the week…
July 1, 2009
Last Thursday, NFFE National President William R. Dougan sat down with key Department leadership at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC, to discuss key issues affecting USDA employees across the country. Meeting with Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment Jay Jensen, Chief of Staff to the USDA Secretary, John Norris, and a number…
June 26, 2009
In a letter sent Tuesday to House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) and Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee Chairman Jose Serrano (D-NY), Congressmen Edolphus Towns (D-MD) and Stephen Lynch (D-MA) urged the observance of the principle of pay parity in their committees’ FY 2010 budget appropriations. The letter came on the heels of…
June 26, 2009
By a vote of 389-22, yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelming passed H.R. 2647, the 2010 Defense Authorization Act, containing an amendment that could spell the beginning of the end for the National Security Personnel System (NSPS). The amendment, introduced by Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) would restore the full annual pay adjustment for all…
June 15, 2009
This past Friday, the House of Representatives voted 307-97 in favor of the Senate’s version of H.R. 1256, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which lacked many critical provisions for federal employees. The House version of the bill, passed overwhelmingly in early April, included a number of important federal retirement issues such as…
