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Washington, D.C.-With another in a long string of successful organizing victories in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) now is the exclusive collective bargaining agent for every union-eligible employee in this key government agency.
In the most recent successful vote, which was tabulated today by the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), another 190 eligible FDIC employees voted for NTEU representation. It raises to more than 3,400 the number of agency employees represented by the union.
NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley noted that the long process of bringing union representation to all eligible employees at FDIC "is indicative not just of employee recognition of what NTEU can do in concert with them, but of the perseverance of NTEU in seeking to extend union representation" as widely as possible throughout the federal sector.
NTEU first organized employees at FDIC headquarters some 20 years ago; since then, the effort has been extended to field offices and FDIC divisions around the country. In all, NTEU has 10 chapters representing FDIC employees. The 190 whose votes were tabulated today will be represented by the chapter in their locale.
The most recent vote in favor of NTEU representation was 88-12. As is the case in the federal sector, there was a separate, companion vote on whether professional employees would have their own bargaining unit.
The lawyers and economists, who make up the professional segment of the group most recently organized, voted by 20 to 7 to be part of the same unit as the support personnel, most of whom work in information technology.
Kelley said that the group of 190 hadn't previously been organized because in the agency's structure, their jobs hadn't fit in with any of the specific units NTEU was organizing. As the culmination of an organizing campaign over the past year, the union petitioned the FLRA for to conduct a representation election among these agency employees.
"Clearly, these employees liked what we have been able to do on behalf of other FDIC employees," Kelley said. Like a handful of other federal agencies, FDIC is operated on revenues generated from the financial services industry it regulates; that allows NTEU to bargain with the agency over pay.