NTEU Chapter 66

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Kansas - The Original Free State. This weekend we are keeping our 165 year tradition of standing up against tyranny. More than 20 cities and towns are participating in Free State Days rallies and protests. For times and locations: www.bootsonthegroundmidwest.org #rachelmaddow #freestate #resist

Hands Off! Rally in D.C. · Hands Off **Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them.** They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to sto...

On Saturday, April 5, we’re making our voices heard and fighting back against this administration’s attacks. Learn more and join us at a rally near you: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...

Great turnout at @nteu66.bsky.social save the civil service rally today!!

NTEU to IRS: If the agency plans to proceed with an ill-advised mass layoff, there are certain steps under the collective bargaining agreement that must be followed to mitigate the impact on employees:
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Big problem emerges in IRS return-to-office mandate: Not enough desks The Internal Revenue Service ordered customer service employees back to the office. There was just one problem: not enough desks.

NTEU Prez: “As predicted, the termination of telework at the IRS has been chaotic and disruptive in offices around the country. Many IRS workplaces do not have enough space to fit everyone.” www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Join us for our first-ever virtual town hall, exclusively for NTEU members, on Wednesday, March 26. National President Doreen Greenwald will answer your questions about the administration’s attacks on the federal workforce and how NTEU is fighting back. RSVP and submit a question: bit.ly/3FjL7pC

Save the Civil Service Rally · National Treasury Employees Union Join NTEU Chapter 66 for a rally to save the civil service in Kansas City!

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Mass firing federal workers endangers the economy, public services and the health and safety of all Americans, NTEU warns: www.nteu.org/media-center...

Leadership from AFGE Local 85 and AFGE NCFLL Local 1748 will be joining us at our Rally to Save the Civil Service.

Will you?

March 15 at Noon in front of the IRS building.

The Secretary of the Treasury has instructed employees to respond to the OPM email: “Your responses should be descriptive enough to show the significance of the work you performed; however, the descriptions should not reveal confidential […] aspects […].”

Some of you are receiving emails asking you to respond with what you did all last week, put it in bullet points, and you have to respond by 11:59 PM Mon. At this time our guidance from national NTEU is do not reply yet. We are working on it and we’ll get you more information so hold off for now.

Rep. Mark Alford said that these firings are “reasonable”.

He’ll be in this coffee house Monday morning if anyone wanted to show up and tell him how they feel about how reasonable this is. You’ll need to use leave.

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We have heard some sources reporting 1000 people and that is not correct, it is less than that. We believe that media attention, as well as actions by our friends in Congress, lessened the blow of what could have been a lot worse.

We do not know if the purge is over.

We do not have a final number at this time, but too many IRS workers were walked out of our building today, far too many.

Our hearts break for those who, through no fault of their own, have been removed from their jobs.

You may want to repost this text with your own email address so emails from your members get to you :)

If anyone that has their computer at home, receives an email terminating them today, we would like to hear about it. Please email nteu.chapter.66@irs.gov.

If you have health insurance through the agency, write down your 3-digit enrollment code somewhere—you will need it if you get terminated and want to continue using your health plan (more about this soon). You can find it on EPP under Health Insurance or search the OPM FEHB site for your plan.

Hey, Tomorrow is Red Wednesday.
if you go to work tomorrow, will you please wear red for solidarity?
We would love to see a sea of red.

Do this today!

If you receive an email of layoff or termination we would like to hear from you. Please send us an email to nteu.chapter.66@irs.gov with all your personal contact information so we can talk to you about your experience.

Only do this off the clock AND off federal property. Totally okay on a federal holiday :)

Call your Senators and tell them how much it would hurt you if you lost your job.

Missouri:
Josh Hawley: (202) 224-6154
Eric Schmitt (202) 224-5721

Kansas:
Jerry Moran (202) 224-6521
Roger Marshall (202) 224-4774

This is a page for Chapter 66 NTEU employees, all of whom at the IRS, so our info is in that context :)

Not a problem! It’d be fine if encrypted but we try to keep our all-employee announcements as problem-proof as possible ☺️

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