Congressional Research Employees Association

 
As you’ve probably heard, on March 26 your CREA negotiation team reached an agreement with CRS on our new telework policy. The team worked hard to make the final agreement flexible for staff and won several crucial improvements.
If CRS hadn’t been required to negotiate with CREA, we would now be governed by the policy [...]

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Today, CREA and CRS management signed an agreement on telework (Telework Agreement).  Negotiations began in October and concluded yesterday.
Starting around the first of May, all bargaining unit employees, including those on a compressed work schedule, may request to telework up to one day per week. Six months later, a one-year pilot program will be established [...]

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President Roth was among the legislative branch representatives invited to testify at the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch hearing Wednesday, February 24.
Among the issues he addressed were telework, COOP planning, outside speaking and writing concerns, and labor-management relations. In a limited question and answer period following his testimony, Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz focused on telework. [...]

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On January 19, 2010, the Director announced a telework program for non-bargaining-unit, non-supervisory staff. These are employees not covered by CREA’s contract.
This program is the same as the program proposed to CREA in October. Then and now, CREA considers the program more restrictive than necessary. Our bargaining team is still negotiating to develop a better [...]

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In light of the recent removal of Morris Davis as Assistant Director of FDT, CREA has reissued and revised its position statement on outside writing. Please see CREA on Outside Writing.

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