Press Releases

NFFE and its coalition partners representing more than 350,000 staff and practitioners at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) sent a joint letter to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie in a desperate plea for management to engage workers and veterans during the increasingly dangerous Coronavirus outbreak.

The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) Local 2109, representing approximately 650 employees at Watervliet Arsenal in Watervliet, New York, is sounding the alarm on numerous unaddressed Coronavirus-related safety issues that Arsenal employees fear put themselves and the Albany area at risk.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Joint Statement: NFFE, AFGE, NAGE, NNU, SEIU 200 United  Contact: Steve Lenkart, 202-216-4458   Washington, D.C. –We health care workers in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) system, deeply dismayed by the lack of preparations, planning, and communications so far in response to COVID-19, are calling on VHA management to work with us to…

“Federal employees are working on the front lines every day, many of them directly interacting with the traveling global population,” stated Randy Erwin, NFFE National President. “While we appreciate yesterday’s guidance from the Trump Administration, OPM’s general statements on workplace flexibilities and self-quarantine are wholly inadequate..."

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Brittany Holder Phone: 202-216-4424   Washington, D.C. – On numerous occasions throughout his presidency, President Trump has gone out of his way to make public comments aimed at intimidating civil service federal employees that for one reason or another have drawn his ire. In recent days, the White House took things…

National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) National President Randy Erwin offered praise to House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Republican committee member Rep. Carol Miller (R-WV) for introducing H.R. 5885 to fix gaps in the recently passed Paid Parental Leave law.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Brittany Holder Phone: 202-216-4424   Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) National President Randy Erwin joined members of Congress to appeal to Senate Republicans to pass a provision allowing 12 weeks of paid leave for federal employees to care for a new foster child, an adopted…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Brittany Holder Phone: 202-216-4424 Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) speaks out against the muted response by Overton Brooks VA Medical Center officials in Shreveport, Louisiana after a brown horse or donkey doll was discovered hanging from a noose in a staff-only area of the facility.…

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Steve Lenkart Phone: 202-216-4458 Washington, D.C. – Today, the Federal Salary Council (FSC)—charged with recommending federal employee locality pay system adjustments to the President’s Pay Agent—held a public hearing to vote on recommendations offered by the FSC Working Group regarding locality pay adjustments for calendar year 2021.  Included in the…

Contact: Brittany Holder  Washington, D.C. – National Federation of Federal Employees National President Randy Erwin and Secretary-Treasurer Dave Stamey released the following statements in response to last night’s passing of U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings: Randy Erwin, NFFE National President: “I am very saddened to hear of the passing of Rep. Elijah Cummings, a man with…