Government Employees
Director: William "Chico" McGill
202 728-6042
government@ibew.org
What's New in Government:
Sick Leave Credits and Abolishing NSPS in Defense Bill
By a vote of 68 to 29, the Senate has approved a defense authorization bill that includes several changes to federal human resources policies.
The bill is now headed to President Obama for his signature.
Among the policy changes is a repeal of authority for the National Security Personnel System and a new provision that provides for workers who retire after December 31, 2013 to receive full credit for unused sick leave for purposes of computing a retirement annuity.
Currently the Federal Employment Retirement System only credits 50 percent of unused sick leave for pension purposes.
Read about the changes on Ralph Smith’s blog:
http://www.fedsmith.com/article/2162/human-resources-changes-include-sick-leave-credit.html |
Government Conference 2008 Presentation
Senate Subcommittee on Defense...
A letter from President Hill to Daniel Inouye.
House Panel Restores Workers’ Rights at the Defense Department
In a victory for civil service employees at the Department of Defense, the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee voted in early May to restore collective bargaining rights and disciplinary appeal rights to Pentagon workers.
Federal
Register Rules and Regulations:
Implementation of Title II of the Notification and Federal Employee
Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002...
Union Victory at Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) woke up to the reality of
union power on Sept. 25, deciding not to challenge a June D.C.
Circuit Court of Appeals injunction that confirmed DHS's new personnel
system was unconstitutional.
Because of the extraordinary support of our
International President to commit to the needs our members in
the Federal Sector, as he stands up against the direction that
this Administration and the DOD, under the leadership of Donald
Rumsfield would have us go, we have a victory in the House with
the Inslee/VanHolen/Jones amendment. The Political/Legislative
Departments staff and the Government Employees Department have
spent many hours on Capital Hill to get support needed with other
members of the United Department of Defense Workers Coalition
(UDWC) with success without a voice vote necessary. While the
struggle still exists and this is just one fight, it sends a
resounding message, the Administration cannot corrupt the desires
of Congress that called for genuine “collaboration” with the unions to create a “fair” system
for there DOD workers!
Special Thanks to IFPTE (Matt Biggs), NFFE (Randy Erwin), AFGE (Beth Moten) and IBEW (Wayne Spong) for wearing out shoe leather.
More on this continuing story...
Read the UDWC’s press release on the vote:
UDWCprNSPSDefundWin.pdf
Good video
Please share this with your friends, your family--well put
together video that tells the story of our waterways and the
dynamics of what our members do:
http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/functions/cw/cecwo/index.html
When you pull up the site, go to the yellow box on the right-hand side, then click on the Video [22k or 44k] icon.
About the Government Department:
A sizable segment of IBEW members works for the U.S. and Canadian governments. There is hardly an agency of the government that does not need trained IBEW electrical workers to carry out its purposes. In naval and coast guard shipyards, naval ordnance plants and various defense activities, electricians, linemen, gyro and electronics technicians, electric-crane repairmen, and others are essential to the defense of our nations and the safety of our people.
IBEW members work aboard ships, on all types of transmission lines, in all kinds of shops providing maintenance to federal buildings and equipment, on communications work of every type, on navigational locks and dams, on hydro- and steam-driven electric power generating plants, and on numerous jobs in every branch of government service. They are employed in many federal agencies, bureaus and departments; such as each branch of the armed services, the General Services Administration, Bureau of Reclamation, National Park Service and Department of Veterans Affairs.
IBEW members work on such installations as the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Bonneville Power Administration, and in national laboratories like Sandia and Brookhaven. In Canada, IBEW members perform highly skilled electronics work in several departments of the Treasury Board of Canada.
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