Why join NTEU?
Just look at all the benefits listed below! Consider all the Office-wide improvements in working conditions that NTEU 245 has secured for all bargaining unit employees.
Then, check out the list of everything from comprehensive insurance programs to hotel discounts...from travel packages to grocery coupons available to dues paying members only!
Office Wide Benefits
Member Only Benefits
 | Appointment to management-union joint committees such as automation, compensation, training, reorganization, expansion, flexiplace, organizational assessment, etc. |
| Negotiation of PAP and Contract with Office |
| Transit subsidies |
| Alternative work schedules (5-4/9, 4/10) that allow you to begin as early as 6:30 a.m. and leave as late as 8:00 p.m. |
| PTO Gym |
| Compensatory time |
| Flexiplace |
| Bonus structure—up to 9% of base salary—and increasing percentage received to compensate for the fact locality pay is no longer included in computing bonuses |
| Partnered Office-wide space expansion |
| Private offices for all attorneys (offices were shared until June 1998) |
| Ability to cross over goods in changing offices during expansion |
| Grievances, e.g., ratings, training |
| Advocate for office-wide non-production time for administrative problems, e.g., computer problems in December 1998 |
| Locality increase in 1999 pay raise, i.e., 3.68% instead of 3.1%, as well as minimum increase of 4.4% in 2000 (result of joint-Union lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill) |
| Pushing back of production start date and/or reduced production rate for March, June and August 1998 class |
| Office-wide X-search 1.1 training and agreement by the office to sit down and discuss impact of using new search system |
| Glare screens, keyboard trays, adjustable furniture |
| Discontinuation of use of subjective mentor reports |
| Participation at Trademark, PTO and Department of Commerce Partnership and Diversity Councils |
| Advocated against overtime production being restricted to computer and machinery goods |
| Revised guidelines so more attorneys can become eligible for honor awards |
| Presentation of surviving the first year lecture to new attorneys |
| Joint partnership effort to evaluate alternative forms of compensation |
| Advocating for GS-14s for everyone |
| Training period for new attorneys |
| Part-time program |
| Challenge of line-item veto which allowed some attorneys to switch to a more favorable pension plan |
| Details and work projects |
| Day-care facility and cafeteria when move to a new facility |
| Reduced-cost movie tickets |
| Transmedia Dining Card |
| Dental Plan |
| Discounts for Bekins Van Lines moving company |
| GEICO auto insurance discount |
| Hotel, rental car and amusement park discounts |
| Life, hospital, short term disability and long term care insurance |
| National real estate services |
| Jiffy Lube, Penske auto center and National Tire discounts |
| Duron paints and wallcoverings discounts |
| NTEU MasterCard |
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