Why Bargaining Committee members are voting YES for the 2024-2026 tentative CBA

 Ricky Voting Yes:

• Extends our current Collective Bargaining Agreement with only minor changes for another four years.
• Allows either party (NTEU 335 or Management) the option of reopening up to 2 articles for negotiation two years from now, but with a time constraint. 
• It reduces and minimizes the risk for a lot of our higher risk articles.
• Despite the reopening of up two 2 articles for negotiation two years from now, it excludes a number of key articles from being eligible for midterm re-openers, including the remote work article (CFPB Next). 
• In essence, we are protected for the next 4 years from any Director cutting or rolling back the most important articles.  Specifically, the agreement excludes the “CFPB Next” Articles 9, 12, 22, and Work Space from 2-year reopeners.  And it also excludes "Union rights" Articles 5, 32, 33, 43, 44, 45, 46 from 2-year reopeners.

Tracey

• I vote YES to the Collective Bargaining Agreement!  We have gained so much from the current CBA agreement that by extending the agreement with minimal, non-substantive changes is a WIN. The Bargaining Committee ensured that CFPB Next is captured in the agreement so that going forward these changes are more permanent than temporary.  So for me, my vote is YES!

Cat

• We had three major goals for this new CBA and we achieved all of them, plus some extras. This includes extending our CFPB Next remote work & telework, work schedules, space, and relocation articles for another four years; minimal changes to the rest of the agreement; and winning 12 observers at the table for future collective bargaining, giving CFPB employees the right to witness negotiations over our rights and paychecks going forward. I’m really proud of the creativity and hard work that went into protecting our agreement and winning some much-needed improvements that will pay off in future agreements, too!

 Charles Perkins

• I joined NTEU 335 in 2017, when I joined the CFPB. If you remember, that was an election year, and we all know what happened then. As a member of the CBA Bargaining Team, I wanted to ensure we protected all of the benefits the Union has been able to negotiate over the last three or four years. I am voting yes because I believe we have safeguarded the most important articles of the CBA, including but not limited to CFPB Next. Join me in protecting these important workplace articles currently in the CBA, especially in the election year!

Jasmine Hardy

• I’m voting yes because the tentative agreement solidifies our contract for another four years.  It incorporates all the hard work and gains our Chapter has won since 2017.  These wins include a pay-setting reset, compensation, workplace flexibilities, health and safety due to the pandemic, and more.  Our chapter has become one of the model chapters at NTEU and is setting a new standard for public sector unions.  I know in four years, we will continue to build off of these gains in an effort to make the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau the go-to agency for career federal civil servants.