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"labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. it must go on, or go under. The most important word to the language of the working class is solidarity."
- Harry Bridges
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Helping Working Families
Provide $386 million to create a rapid retraining program for veterans who are unemployed because of the pandemic.
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Litigation and National Grievances:
NTEU Seeks Night Differential for Paid Parental Leave and COVID-related Emergency Leave
National Grievance Over CBP’s Failure to Provide Employees with Notice and Applicable Rights During Investigations
National Grievance Over CBP’s Failure to Properly Administer Hardship Reassignments
National Grievance Over Fair Labor Standards Act Classifications
National Grievance Over Hazardous Duty and Environmental Differential Pay
Night Differential for COPRA-covered Employees who take leave in Excess of 8 hours
Night Differential for COPRA-covered Employees who take leave on Sundays
National Grievance Over CBP’s Unilateral Addition of a New Childcare Subsidy Program Eligibility Requirement
National Grievance Concerning Changes to the Foreign Language Awards Program
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NTEU VICTORY
CBP Technicians Get Over $3.2 Million for Plant and Animal Work
Employees Impacted: Approximately 190 CBP Technicians performing plant-and-animal-related work.
In February 2018, NTEU and CBP reached a settlement that required CBP to pay Technicians appropriate premium pay for quarantine or inspectional work involving plants or animals. The agreement that NTEU negotiated called for CBP to issue back pay and interest to Technicians and provided for a claims process through which additional pay could be sought. In March 2018, CBP issued nearly $3 million in back pay to 153 current and former Technicians. Over the next three years, CBP paid another $348,000 to Technicians who filed claims. In April 2023, CBP granted nine requests from Technicians who were believed to have been overpaid premium pay during the grievance period, which concludes this matter.
NTEU Win Back Pay and Liquidated Damages for Employees Who Took Emergency Paid Leave:
1,850 employees who took emergency paid leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
NTEU allege CBP violated the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the FLSA by refusing to include certain premium pay categories, such as night shift differentials, in an employee’s regular rate of pay when calculating pay for those who took emergency paid leave. In August 2020, CBP conceded that NTEU was correct, and that the agency had improperly calculated pay for certain employees who took emergency paid leave under the Act. In July 2021, NTEU and CBP reached agreement on the remedy to the 1,850 affected employees: back pay and liquidated damages equal to 90% of the back payments. In the fall of 2021, CBP issued over $580,000 to the employees.
OUR 2023 PRIORITY ISSUES PRESENTED TO CONGRESS
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Increase Federal Employees Pay
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Promoting and Supporting Telework and Remote Work
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Safeguarding Workplace Rights and Protection
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Ensuring Agency Funding and Resources
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LEGISLATIVE CALL TO ACTION GET INVOLVED PROTECT YOUR FUTURE
Urge Your Senator To Support
*Emergency paid leave
*S.3850 to authorize a CBP hiring surge at ports of entry.
*HR 3096 to allow federal law enforcement officer to purchase their retired service weapon.
NTEU is pursuing two grievances involving premium pay against Customs and Border Protection (CBP