Priority Issues

Our legislative agenda is set for the year, and now it’s time to advocate for the issues that impact you, your family and your daily working life now and into the future.

The NTEU Legislative Advisory Committee (LAC) met on in January to determine the issues NTEU will focus on during the 2025 Legislative Conference and throughout the year.

NTEU legislative leaders from chapters across the country met to discuss NTEU’s legislative grassroots program and agenda for 2025. The LAC members recommended that the following issues would be NTEU’s legislative priorities for the year.

Protecting the Nonpartisan Civil Service
Defending and preserving collective bargaining
Ensuring employee rights and protections
Protecting telework and remote work

Agency funding
Ensuring sufficient funding to properly staff agencies to meet agency missions
Preventing shutdowns

Pay and benefits
Providing Fair Pay Increases
Protecting Employee Healthcare and Retirement Benefits

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