NTEU Chapter 71

08/25/2026

Because there's more going on in your life than just work and "What is the union up to?", we want to periodically post things which can possibly better yourself and your families.
(Oh, hey, look! Work-life balance! Remember that?)

So to start, with school about to start and a while lot of y'all having kids looking at getting into college in the next few years, here is some absolutely EXCELLENT advice from Chris Newman, a farmer, author, and entrepreneur.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DBD3uQSSG/

08/18/2026

Your State of the Union, in brief.

Please stop by our event!

08/18/2026

Don't forget!
Today or tomorrow, come in before your shift (if you're on nights) or afterwards (if you're days) for free food, giveaways, and more!

Next week! Join us (on your off time, naturally) to enjoy free food, learn about what's going on, learn how to better leverage your benefits, and more!

08/10/2026

Next week! Join us (on your off time, naturally) to enjoy free food, learn about what's going on, learn how to better leverage your benefits, and more!

08/03/2026

Something you may not have seen:

The in-house newspaper for the Philadelphia Service Center has local Accounts Management's employee appreciation event, held a couple months back as its front-page story.

They took advanced leave away from you.
They took telework away from you.
They took AWS away from you.
They made it impossible to file grievances on your yearly performance evaluation when it's not accurate.
They fired or forced out a lot of your coworkers and left you doing more with less.
They deliberately understaffed the phone lines and made YOU take the brunt of the taxpayers' anger.
They made it easier to fire you, and made it very clear that you are not considered valuable enough to be allowed the due process upon which this country, to which you have given your work life in service, is based.
.. But hey, they clapped for you, that one day, and gave some of you soft pretzels!

To paraphrase the enslaved general Maximus in the movie GLADIATOR, "Are you not appreciated?"

08/01/2026

Well, there isn't really that much new news this week--which on the one hand is good; news coming in on Friday afternoons this year has typically not been good news.

On the other hand, another week has gone by without the news we WANT to hear; that being in our court case against the exclusion of the union.

We know we've going to prevail in this case--but we also know how painful it is, waiting for your rights to be restored.
(If anything, we're waiting even more hungrily; we have a whole shopping list of things the Agency is going to have to restore and/or fix when we're again under a good contract.

[And trust and believe: We WILL be "going shopping" when that day comes.])

UPDATE: We forgot--there WAS some new news we will be touching upon in a post later tonight.

07/25/2026

Just a quick video this time, talking about the impact of the latest anti-FriYay email sent out just before a weekend, once again unlawfully taking away something ELSE employees need.

(And rest assured, we will be filing national grievances on this, and on AWS.)

07/23/2026

As promised, the first of many videos from Chapter 71 explaining what is going on.

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

07/22/2026

Stay tuned for a video late tonight, explaining the situation with the telework arbitration and more!

03/26/2026

Never let them tell you that unions aren't patriotic.

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