Press Releases

Today, NFFE sent a letter to the editor-in-chief of The Intercept sharply criticizing an article that inaccurately portrayed NFFE’s fight to modernize the federal wildland fire services and help firefighters.

NFFE is proud to announce workers at Yellowstone National Park have elected America’s first federal employee union to represent America’s first established National Park.

Today, Senator Rand Paul thanked firefighters for responding to fire at his office in Kentucky. This show of gratitude comes after he voted to cut the pay for federal firefighters on Wednesday in a Senate hearing where Paul serves as ranking member.

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) voted 10-1 to advance the Wildland Firefighter Paycheck Protection Act (S. 2272) to the full Senate for future debate.

Today, the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing to discuss H.R. 4278, the Restore Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability Act. NFFE submitted a statement for the record opposing this legislation, which would restore the previously failed VA Accountability Act of 2017.

Today, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) applauds the introduction of the Wildland Firefighter Paycheck Protection Act (WFPPA), which will codify into law a continuation of base pay levels for federal wildland firefighters as outlined in President Biden’s original budget proposal for FY24.

Today, NFFE released a new fact sheet that is designed to combat disinformation about the federal workforce.  “The Fight for American Democracy: Dispelling Popular Lies and Myths about the Federal Workforce” is available for public use.

Yesterday, NFFE submitted testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability for a hearing addressing post-pandemic backlogs and delays in service of U.S. passports.

Biden Seeks to End Years of Corrupt Decisions with a New FLRA Board

NFFE is calling on Congress to take immediate action to avoid a mass resignation of potentially thousands of federal wildland firefighters. In a letter sent this week to the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, a group of bipartisan Senators echoed NFFE’s request for Congress to act now to address this imminent crisis.