September 16, 2015
Under a new bill introduced in the Senate on Tuesday afternoon, federal employees would receive six weeks of paid parental leave for the birth, adoption or foster placement of a…
September 9, 2015
Coming off one of the best months in Congress for federal employees (Congress was on recess, so they were not able to harm the federal workforce), Congress is back in…
September 3, 2015
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated in the United States on September 5, 1882 in New York City. The purpose was to acknowledge and honor the social and economic…
August 28, 2015
Last month, the Department of the Army announced that 17,000 Department of Army civilian employees will be cut as a part of a larger Department-wide force structure decision that will…
August 21, 2015
Earlier this year, NFFE, along with the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) and the American Federation of government Employees (AFGE), secured a massive legal win – reaching an…
August 14, 2015
Last month at Letterkenny Army Depot in Chambersburg, Penn., the leadership of NFFE Local 1429 established an organizing committee and laid out a plan to substantially grow the membership of…
August 10, 2015
Before leaving town for August recess, the Senate passed HR 1531, the Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA). This comes in the wake of the House passing the LMFWA in July. And…
August 4, 2015
In 2013, the National Council disseminated the first edition of the Labor Management Forum Reporting Tool developed by the Problem Resolution Subcommittee to: (1) provide a mechanism for labor management…
July 30, 2015
The Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA) continues its march toward enactment into law. Yesterday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) unanimously approved H.R. 1531, the House…
July 28, 2015
Congress is on the verge of stripping due process rights from every non-management Veterans Affairs (VA) employee – including whistleblowers and the over 100,000 veterans employed by the VA. Supporters…