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Washington, D.C.—The leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal workers will offer her views on existing alternative personnel systems in some federal agencies in testimony before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee next Tuesday, Sept. 27.

President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) will appear at a 10 a.m. hearing of the committee’s Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia subcommittee. It is chaired by Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH).

Among the 30 federal agencies and departments where NTEU is the collective bargaining representative are the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Each of these agencies uses a personnel system that contains elements somewhat different from those used government-wide.

The NTEU leader will tell the subcommittee that these different systems have serious problems that need to be corrected and should not be viewed as models for the rest of the government.

NTEU is the largest independent federal employee union representing 150,000 federal employees in 30 federal agencies and departments.