(6 Feb 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington - 5 February 2025
1. Close of National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) sign
2. Tilt down of medals representing federal agencies in NTEU
3. Close of medal for US Customs and Border Protection
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Doreen Greenwald, National Treasury Employees Union President:
"We represent 37 agencies, and each of those agencies delivers for the American people. Do you depend on having clean water? Do you want your food inspected so you know what you're eating? Do you know what's coming across the border? All of those things are supported by federal employees and are at risk."
5. Pan left wall showcasing when federal agencies joined NTEU
6. Close of sign for Internal Revenue Service
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Doreen Greenwald, National Treasury Employees Union President:
"They've issued at least three emails that I am aware of pushing this deferred resignation. And recently, as of today, the Treasury Department has informed the IRS that even employees who asked to go on this, if they are part of the filing season, they will not be permitted until May 15th. And so can you imagine being an employee who has received a letter of this nature? Told you don't really -- you're not really productive. We want to get rid of you. Resign now. But then. But wait a minute. We need you through May 15th because you're involved in the filing season."
8. Pan left portraits of NTEU members holding signs
9. Pan right of sign reading (English) "The Voice of Federal Employees"
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Doreen Greenwald, National Treasury Employees Union President:
"Again, these letters went across the board to 2.3 million federal employees and asked them to end their careers. Nobody has taken the work away. Nobody has said what will happen to the services that the American people depend on, and yet they're being asked to sign an agreement that is unclear, does not provide any guidance for them, and there's no guarantees for it. In fact, the documents that have been given to these employees gives 100% power to the government and zero to the employee. So if you sign this document and then later change your mind, you are left without any power to fight back. And so for those reasons, I do not recommend people sign a document. They need to have control of their own career, and this document does not give it to them."
11. Various of Greenwald at work with NTEU Vice President Terry Scott
12. Close of NTEU t-shirts framed on a wall
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Doreen Greenwald, National Treasury Employees Union President:
"The efforts that the president -- this administration has taken are efforts to weaken the civil service. The whole thought behind removing due process rights of federal employees is about a loyalty test. And as I said before, civil servants take an oath to the Constitution. Their job is apolitical. They are nonpartisan, and they're purposefully intended to be nonpartisan so that they can work over a variety of administrations. I was a federal employee for 35 years. I worked under Democrats and Republicans, and I did my job according to the rules and regulations. It has nothing to do with the politics because that's not part of the work they do. And so when you introduce things of this nature, it challenges that and makes it become a loyalty test. And the American people want to make sure that they are being treated fairly and that they are getting the services intended for them, and that that service is not inhibited by somebody's politics. And that shouldn't happen. And so that is why we have filed a lawsuit against that effort."
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