Keep up the pressure on January 1st pay, a COVID contract, and permanent remote work

Keep up the pressure. Continue to raise your voice. You are getting through: the pressure you have put on management is starting to get their attention.

The key now lies with our remote work ground rules: Tell Deputy Director Zixta Martinez and Bureau leaders to respect the workers, listen, and agree to our ground rules so that we can make things right on pay and move forward with health & safety, remote work, and finishing the salary reviews. Labor Relation's obstructionist delays must end now!

Labor Relations must include the following in the ground rules:

• Commit to January 1st, 2022 as the effective date for the pay reset to restore trust in the completion of a fair, accurate salary review process (which both parties have already agreed to!), despite the Office of Human Captial’s previous mismanagement. Management committing to this effective date will allow us to thoroughly and completely finish fixing the problems in the salary reset process caused by Human Capital’s mismanagement.
• Commit to immediate negotiations to get a signed contract securing our current COVID safety protections like COVID-19 Admin Leave & maximum telework. This commitment ensures employees are not forced back into in-person work or travel before it’s safe to do so. Management must stop using the implicit threat of exposure to COVID-19 to try to scare us into accepting their terms on remote work!

Here’s what you can do:

1. Most importantly: Email Deputy Director Zixta Martinez, and tell her you support the commitments management must make, laid out above. Copy our template below to email the Deputy Director now -- customize it as you see fit.
2. We are also CCing Labor Relations, and the following top decision makers in the Director's office:
   1. Chief of Staff Jan Singelmann 
   2. General Counsel Seth Frotman
3. Add our campaign graphics to your Webex, Teams, and Office profiles, if you haven’t already. Show you stand with your fellow workers with “Pay Up, CFPB” profile pictures and backgrounds. Get the graphics and instructions here.

Your hard work is paying off. Your efforts have been noticed. Keep up the fight, keep up the pressure. Your fellow workers have your back. The union has your back. Even the president has signed executive orders and created a taskforce to encourage collective bargaining and union membership. Now is the time to let management know that your pay and your safety are what matter. Without adequate pay and safety, and without you, the work cannot be done.

Copy and paste the email template below:

Be sure to include all the decision makers and the union exec board in the to: field, for highest impact & so the union can measure the progress of our collective email action!

To:
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

Subject:
I need your help

Body:

Deputy Director Martinez,

I continue to work hard to ensure that American Consumers are protected. However, I need your support to ensure that I am compensated fairly and that I can carry out my duties knowing that I, my family, and my friends will not be put in jeopardy by exposure to COVID-19. Please instruct Labor Relations to agree to ground rules for remote work bargaining that ensure my coworkers and I are protected:

• Commit to January 1st, 2022 as the effective date for the pay agreement to restore trust in the completion of a fair, accurate salary review process, despite the Office of Human Capital's previous mismanagement. Committing to this effective date will allow us to thoroughly and completely finish fixing the problems in the salary reset process and give me peace of mind to know that my compensation will be equitable and effective as of 1/1/2022.
• Commit to immediate negotiations to get a signed contract securing our current COVID safety protections (like COVID-19 admin leave and maximum telework). This commitment ensures my coworkers and I are not forced back into in-person work or travel before it’s safe to do so.

I commit to continuing to protect consumers, through all of this. Please support my work and that of my coworkers by instructing Labor Relations to handle this correctly - to follow the Executive Orders that require agencies to bargain with unions over such working conditions - and to work to swiftly get our current protections in writing before bargaining begins.

Thank you,

Your name here